Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Editor Vintage Television on Christmas background. / Photo by 'francescosgura', licensed by Envato.com . Happy almost-spring break Warriors! There’s only two weeks left until break, and with mid-terms right around the corner, and two feet of snow outside, here are some new books, movies, tv shows, and videos coming up in March!  Netflix Born a Champion Jurassic World The Lego Movie Wind Breaker Bruce Bruce: I Ain’t Playin’ Blue Thera

Mikayla Leskey | Arts & Entertainment Editor Four Robots working with laptop. / Photo by 'iLexx', licensed by Envato.com . Recently, I finished a game called Detroit: Become Human . I’m sure many of you have heard of this game before, I hadn’t until my friends introduced me to it earlier this year. Surprising, considering my love for “choices matter” games. But nonetheless, I managed to complete the game in three days and it exceeded most of my expectations. But before I

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Silhouette of woman with kid playing behind sheet. / Photo by 'ADDICTIVE_STOCK', licensed by Envato.com . We all have stories to tell—it doesn’t matter your age or gender or race or class, or anything really, you have a story. Whether that story be of your entire life or something that happened to you yesterday. Every choice you make is the basis of a story, even if it’s choosing what to eat or not doing homework, you can make a stor

Mikayla Leskey | Arts & Entertainment Editor Woman watching TV at home and relaxing. / Photo by 'stockasso', licensed by Envato.com . I hope everyone’s enjoying the recent snow fall we’ve gotten! With the snow and Valentine’s Day just around the corner, here are some new cozy and romantic releases of TV Shows, Movies, Books, and Video Games, coming this February!  Netflix Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing The American President The Bucket List Crazy, Stupid, Love. Ex Machina Fli

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment family of four parents pregnant mom and dad and two siblings little boy and girl in stylish clothes in chalet are ready to welcome Christmas and New Year near Christmas tree with gift box presents. / Photo by 'fentonroma', licensed by Envato.com . Over winter break, during one of my long Barnes & Noble’s perusal I came across a book by Non Pratt called Unboxed. I don’t know why exactly it drew me in at first, it was nothing like what

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Editor Girl wearing superhero costume and mask for Halloween doing flying pose. / Photo by 'DC_Studio', licensed by Envato.com . You know what I’ve always wanted to see? A TV series or short film or whatever about our everyday heroes in a superhero universe. Y’know our firefighters or teachers or nurses working together to save the civilians or clean up the city whilst Superman or Captain America are in the background defeating whatev

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Editor Christmas, Winter Holidays And Leisure Concept - Close Up Of Young Woman Watching Tv With Fireplace. / Photo by 'GroundPicture', licensed by Envato.com . With finals week just a week away, here are some of upcoming shows, video games, movies, and books, to binge in-between study sessions and after finals! Have a wonderful winter break warriors!  Netflix All the Empty Rooms Love is Blind: Italy Playing Gracie Darling A League o

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Editor Portrait of a two female radio hosts recording podcast in a home broadcasting studio while sitting on a yellow sofa. Live stream concept. Neon on air sign blurry in front of them.. / Photo by 'zamrznutitonovi', licensed by Envato.com . I couldn’t count the amount of projects I’ve done on the importance of Queer representation in media, especially for younger audiences, but the show Heartstopper , a LGBTQ+ coming-of-age TV show

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Female hand holding Red poppy flowers in a wild field. Vivid Poppies meadow in spring. Beautiful summer day. Beautiful red poppy flowers on green fleecy stems grow in the field. Scarlet poppy flowers in the sunset light. / Photo by ' yanishevskaanna ', licensed by Envato.com . The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang is a militaristic fantasy book and by far, one of the most popular books I’ve ever read. It exceeded every single expectation I ever

Riley Backofen | Contributing Writer Gracyn Goodale | Contributing Writer Student being tutored. / Photo by 'KostiantynVoitenko', licensed by Envato.com . Transitioning from high school to college can be extremely overwhelming for many students. Dealing with the workload and new expectations can be difficult to achieve right away. Did you know that tutoring does not just help you fix your grades or understand more of the concepts you are learning, but it also improves your

Mathew Biadun | News-Editor “Love Coffee, Love People.” That’s the slogan of Silk City Coffee, and the philosophy that drives one of its founders, Tammy Gerhard. A member of Eastern’s Class of ’92, Tammy majored in psychology and went on to spend twenty-two years as a guidance counselor. Helping others was always at the heart of her work, in and out of school. Beyond counseling, she wrote children’s books and helped develop support programs for survivors of human trafficking

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween weekend! Though with it being Halloween, it means winter is right around the corner. Here are some cozy new releases of movies, tv shows, books, and games, that make you want to curl up underneath a blanket.  Netflix A Very Vintage Christmad Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Back to the Future Dr. Dolittle Charlie’s Angels Elvis Happy Christmas The Hangover In The Heights

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment About a month ago, Electronic Arts (EA) a company that creates video games such as “The Sims,” “Madden NFL,” and, “Battlefield,” announced that they are being acquired for a $52.5 billion deal by private equity firm, Public Investment Firm (PIF) Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. This deal, if it goes through as planned, then it’ll be the biggest buyout funded by a private-equity firm. The news itself was unexpected. There was noise

Megan Hayes | Editor-in-Chief The Denise Reis Trio performing on September 12, 2025 at the River Room in Willimantic, CT. On a Friday night in downtown Willimantic, the glow of soft light spills from the River Room’s front windows. Inside, gentle chatter mingles with the sound of clinking glasses and the hum of soft background music. Then, the show starts -- Brazilian singer and guitarist , Denise  Reis and her band come to the stage, and the room is immediately filled wi

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Editor Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid is a retelling that you’ve never known you needed. It’s a gothic retelling of The Juniper Tree , where a boy is murdered by this stepmother who cooks him and feeds him to his father. The boy’s sister buries his bones under a juniper tree and he’s reborn as a magical bird. Eventually it leads him to kill his stepmother and bring him back to life, but this retelling, it’s something you wouldn’t expect

Kyle Tabor | Contributing Author For Part 2 of this series, I spoke to Dr. Youngblood, Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department, to talk generative AI – and some philosophy, too. Dr. Youngblood’s discipline is Digital Media, specifically video games, and the roles of gender and sexuality within them. His passion really started, I learned, with a Sega Genesis at 6 years old. Our conversation was far-ranging, and the rapport we’ve built up in previous classes

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder is one of the weirdest books you will ever read. What starts seemingly like an alternate-version of the COVID-19 virus, it’s clearly not, or at the very least way more severe. The main character, Erin, starts vomiting blood and bleeding from the eyes, and that’s just the start of this horror tale. It’s a mix of apocalyptic, body horror, and dystopian. With nodes of romance, and general weirdne

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment All our lives, we’ve been taught about mythology. At least, for me, I was. I think it started in the second grade, with little folktales, which progressed to reading the Percy Jackson books in third grade, and then now in college, reading full books explaining different mythologies across cultures. But why? Why have we been learning about mythology since we were kids? Why was it deemed important enough for the curriculum? Especially

Mathew Biadun | News-Editor Professor Carenen, chair of the History Department, has taught a lot of different classes over her time at Eastern. In the past she’s taught classes on US policy in the Middle East, History Professionalization, Early American history, and the history of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, among others. But this semester, she’s teaching something a little different.  ‘The Power of Taylor Swift’  is an LAC-200 class, meaning a class largely intended for

Mikayla Leskey | Arts and Entertainment I’ve been to about 4 concerts by popular bands and/or musicians in my entire life and an...