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Theater and Leadership: My Personal Journey

Theater and Leadership: My Personal Journey

Katherine Witt, Journalist April 14, 2025

The thing about theater is that most of the time, it’s a group effort. It isn’t led by one person or made possible by just one singular effort. It’s the collection of people and wills that makes...

Heart on Your Sleeve

Heart on Your Sleeve

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer April 14, 2025

Echo Gray               Fresh water and cool black rock.               Echo waded into the shallows, the still water. Crisp and clear. The chill felt familiar, like a spring breeze...

Defying the Gale

Defying the Gale

Lion’s Den Staff March 30, 2025

The wind is not my friend she once whispered that she'd always have my back always be there to catch me if i fall but her lies are like a lemon on a sunny day sweet until they turn sour I...

Il Gattopardo By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Italian Edition

The Leopard’s Leaps Across the Novel, the Film, and the Television Show

Guido Pedretti, Managing Editor of Entertainment March 3, 2025

On March 5, 2025, a very strange series will be released on Netflix. No, it’s not Stranger Things. It is a series bringing together American and Italian actors, taking place in Sicily during the period...

How to Write a First Draft

How to Write a First Draft

Sophia Elina McIntosh, Managing Editor of Human Interest February 2, 2025

Staring at a blank page is incredibly daunting. We’ve all dealt with the struggle to write something that fully captures the story that lives in your mind. You start pressing computer keys, forming sentences,...

Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave

Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave

Siobhan Qualtire, Managing Editor of Nature & Environment February 2, 2025

Eyes lined with the long walks of the sixties stare back at you through the cinema screen, and what was once a movie is now something more. “New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!” is shouted...

Alpine Altitude

Alpine Altitude

Isabella Marler, Creative writer February 2, 2025

Sweet mountain air where thunderclaps clap their hands shake to make the wind blow and tumble down wildflower paths Rich, deep plum among - a sea - of shimmering glimmering grass secretly strewn...

Bob Dylan

The Appeal of Acoustic: On the Surge of Folk Music

Emma Clare Barrasso, Founder & Editor-In-Chief January 18, 2025

It’s almost unavoidable now: hearing the rasp of Zach Bryan from a passing car, or a cover of Hozier’s “Cherry Wine” on your social media platforms. Even the legendary Bob Dylan has seen an uptick,...

Thunder (Only in Her Dreams)

Thunder (Only in Her Dreams)

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer January 8, 2025

Heartbeats rushing, manes tangled together, flying down the beach. Skye clung to her horse, arms thrown around his neck, legs hanging over his broad sides. Her heart knocked against his withers, and...

A LITERARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS: WHAT CLASSICS TO READ IN THESE HOLIDAYS

A LITERARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS: WHAT CLASSICS TO READ IN THESE HOLIDAYS

Guido Pedretti, Managing Editor of Entertainment December 25, 2024

The child, all dressed in red, was staring at the camera with a sheepish expression. He was sitting on the lap of his mother, a young woman who looked much older due to her white-dyed hair. She had a much...

2001: JULIUS CAESAR AND OSWALD SPENGLER IN SPACE

2001: JULIUS CAESAR AND OSWALD SPENGLER IN SPACE

Guido Pedretti, Managing Editor of Entertainment December 1, 2024

A clock is ticking above a massive city. A man is about to throw himself from the tallest building when he literally orders time to stop. And it does. The clock stops, and the cars in the streets are frozen,...

Echoes of Us

Echoes of Us

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer November 10, 2024

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