The poor prioritization of visuals in film

Aditya Thiyag | The Chronicle Film is a visual medium. It’s a phrase that I’ve heard before, but it’s something that I didn’t really understand until recently. Last week, I watched Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance and The Lighthouse – two wildly different films each with unreal performances, inventive screenplays, and compelling characters. Yet the thing that stood […]

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Making my choice

Bradyn Johnson | The Chronicle Being a black teenage girl in a predominately white high school has made me look at life through a different lens. I had to become strong enough to be comfortable in my skin. And with the stereotypical black jokes to the culturally insensitive actions that made me feel uncomfortable, I always found myself wanting to […]

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Entertainment industry, please do better

Aditya Thiyag | The Chronicle Entertainment is never worth your life. In the past month, two entirely preventable tragedies took place; the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set Rust and the crowd crush that resulted in 8 confirmed deaths and over 300 injuries at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. The internet was frenzied to address the root […]

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It’s time to decompress

Isabella Gaspar’raj | The Chronicle The Tombow Fudenosuke calligraphy pen was the gateway to finding my calmer self. About two years ago, I got my first calligraphy book and calligraphy pen. Though I like to show others my calligraphy work and I am proud of it, the root of it is that I love writing beautifully, and it calms me […]

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Activism is not a trend

Aditya Thiyag | The Chronicle I’m not opposed to using social media as a vessel for change. Its ability to connect individuals globally is unparalleled and information is spread on websites like Twitter and Instagram faster than any news site could hope to achieve. However, it is websites like these where trends and politics mesh together to create a beast […]

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Count your blessings

Abigail Waechter | Managing Editor On my first day of high school, I was dress coded. I wore a spaghetti strapped, white shirt with ripped blue jeans and tennis shoes. When my biology teacher handed me the yellow dress code slip, it said that I had violated the “no showing of shoulders” rule. This was my first day in a […]

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“When You’re Older”

Isabelle Paley | The Chronicle When I was ten, I remember wanting to go to the mall with my friends and my mom said, “When you’re older.” When I was fifteen and wanted my first boyfriend. My mom said “When you’re older.” Now eventually I did get to do all of those things but at the time I was offended […]

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Opinion: A goodbye worth the heartache

Riley Johansen | Editor-in-Chief  “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” The second I finished my junior year, I instantly knew what I wanted on my parking spot. A simple quote from Winnie the Pooh, a piece of my childhood that I had always kept close. It was cute, sentimental, but most importantly, it […]

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Bad for the environment: Bad for Artists

By Ann Vettikkal Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are as insane as they sound.  Riding the coattails of recent cryptocurrency excursions like bitcoin, a new form of cryptoart has formed. While bitcoin is considered fungible, meaning it hold equal value with another bitcoin and can be traded in a precisely equal manner, NFTs are a form of cryptoart that are not mutually […]

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