Anyone who has scrolled through their social media app of choice in the last few months has been force-fed the bright orange ping-pong ball marketing for Marty Supreme. Essentially, Timothée Chalamet has been in character as Marty Mauser for the last year, and it is finally coming together now that the movie is out. Blimps, stunts, skits, rap cameos, Wheaties boxes, jackets, and sphere-headed groupies later, Marty Supreme had generated an audience long before Christmas Day. Chalamet led most of...

The month of March, as many of us (should) know, is also known as Women’s History Month. This recognition started uncomfortably recently, in February of 1980, when President Jimmy Carter was urged to dedicate a week to women’s history to fight against the lack of education on women in schools. It took another seven years for National Women’s History Week to become Women’s History Month by law. Today, we celebrate women much more regularly, but this month is one that allows us to reflect much mor...

This semester, performing arts students at the University of Mount Union are participating in the opportunity of a lifetime. Rachel Dean, composer, pianist, and music director with performance experience all over the world, and Ian LeRoy, 2014 Mount Union grad and music director, pianist, and vocal coach, are in Alliance all the way from NYC to guide these students through the process of writing an original musical. That’s right­—lyrics, melodies, ideas—completely original.I spoke with a few stu...

At 7:30 am, on Wednesday morning, Oct. 22nd, Cooper Reed, Ally Ivey, Gavin Patterson, and I piled into our advisor Lynn’s car to make our way to the airport. The ride there was quiet, with Lynn speaking to each of us individually, but none of us really talking to one another. We arrived at the airport, got to our gate quickly, and waited patiently for our boarding time. Our flight was smooth (with some typical difficult plane seat neighbors who had clearly spent some time at the airport bar), an...

On Friday, October 3, while student-run radio and media stations across the country were celebrating their access to expression on World College Radio Day, the students of WCSB at Cleveland State were attempting to save years of history as they were escorted out of their own studio by Cleveland State police.  That morning, the station joined a Zoom call with university administration where it was announced to them that Ideastream would be taking over their FM waves with JazzNEO programming. It w...