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Netflix’s Adolescence and the new reality of hypermasculinity

Netflix’s Adolescence and the new reality of hypermasculinity

Carlisle West ’25, Staff Writer April 10, 2025

It is safe to say that at first glance, no one would immediately label Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) as a murderer. A mere 13-year-old with rosy cheeks, a coy smile and a love for outer space, he doesn’t...

The Studio misses its own points

The Studio misses its own points

Max Bratter ’25, A&E Editor April 10, 2025

“Oh, God, it’s so humiliating,” Patty Leigh (Catherine O’Hara) cries at the door of her Architectural Digest mansion in front of her studio-head successor Matt Remick (Seth Rogen). She sports...

Playboi Carti’s MUSIC: big, bloated and boring

Playboi Carti’s MUSIC: big, bloated and boring

Ian Brassard ’27, Staff Writer April 3, 2025

After four and a half years of waiting, the highly anticipated follow-up to rapper Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red (2020) was finally released this past March. A long wait comes with grand expectations...

Caamp’s Somewhere (2025) is definitely worth the listen

Caamp’s Somewhere (2025) is definitely worth the listen

Lucy Leness ’26, A&E Contributor April 3, 2025

Ohio-based folk band Caamp recently released their third extended play (EP), titled Somewhere, about a month ago. The EP consists of four tracks, including their single “Let Things Go,” which was...

American Events: an ongoing national tradition

American Events: an ongoing national tradition

Maximo Bratter ’25, A&E Editor March 6, 2025

The 2025 Oscars are in the rearview mirror, along with the Grammys and the Super Bowl. The world is globalized in the economic sense, but more so in a cultural one. These aforementioned occasions perform...

Monsterization: categorizing people as “abnormal” from the Renaissance to the modern day

Sylvia Woodbury ’27, Staff Writer February 27, 2025

In a recent online lecture, the award-winning “historian of art, science, and ideas” Surekha Davies presented a manuscript illustration of the 16th-century courtier Antonietta Gonsalvus. Due to...

Reflecting on Chappell Roan’s WHCL interview

Reflecting on Chappell Roan’s WHCL interview

Max Bratter ’25, A&E Editor February 20, 2025

It is 2025 and Chappell Roan is the proud owner of a Grammy for Best New Artist. The six total nominations that Roan received, all of which were part of her first time being recognized by the Academy,...

Battle of the Bands offers a glimpse at C&C Day

Battle of the Bands offers a glimpse at C&C Day

Bryna Jekogian ’25, Staff Writer February 20, 2025

Hamilton College hosted its annual Battle of the Bands in a competition to determine which group will perform before the headliner on Class and Charter (C&C) day. At the Annex, students came to...

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A 90s playlist to reset politics into a new Golden Age

Brian Wolfel, Former Hamilton College Professor February 13, 2025

Recently there has been a lot of talk about a golden age being in America’s future. President Trump has been promoting a “golden age” as an optimistic vision and narrative for his second term...

The Weeknd is the Bret Easton Ellis of music

The Weeknd is the Bret Easton Ellis of music

Max Bratter ’25, A&E Editor February 13, 2025

The Weeknd, the R&B crooner hailing from Toronto, Canada, is supposedly wrapping up his career. After the release of two trilogies that were separated by a four-album intermission, The Weeknd,...

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Opinion: Marvel Studios destroyed modern cinema

Ian Brassard ’27, A&E Contributor February 13, 2025

Many serious film fans and casual moviegoers alike have often made similar commentary about the state of the film industry in the current day. There is a general lack of imagination, brave ideas and...

Companion (2025) lacks the gravity that it insists it has

Companion (2025) lacks the gravity that it insists it has

  Girl meets boy. Boy is charming; girl falls head-over-heels. Boy invites girl to a remote house in the middle of the woods for a romantic get-away. Bad move, girl: anyone who’s caught...

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