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Melts In Your Mouth

Illustration by Oakley Tapola
Illustration by Oakley Tapola

Chocolate is everywhere! Holidays such as Halloween and Valentine’s Day make it a staple in everyone’s diet for at least two weeks surrounding the actual day. Songs, such as the infamous YouTube classic “Chocolate Rain,” have wormed their way into our brains. Chocolate is so popular that unsavory creatures, like ants and grasshoppers, covered in the …

Vampire Hands – Me and You Cherry Red

Vampire Hands - Me and You Cherry Red
Vampire Hands – Me and You Cherry Red

Lock up your children because Vampire Hands are coming to get you! While visions of gaunt, bony creatures shrouded in cloaks and pining for blood are probably filling your head, there is no need to panic. Seriously, stop the mad dash for the garlic …

Can You Tell Me How to Get… How to Get to Sesame Street

Coloring by Dane Thomforde
Coloring by Dane Thomforde

With the black tendrils of stress still lingering after weeks of dodging failing grades on papers and midterms, students look to the freedom of Spring Break to release some tension. Destinations are meticulously planned out months in advance as exhausted and overworked studiers search for the perfect place to blow off some steam. While you …

The Sugar Curtain

Photo courtesy First Run/Icarus Films
Photo courtesy First Run/Icarus Films

Children growing up in the United States trust their parents to make the right decisions. As citizens, we are supposed to trust that the decisions made by the government will be right for the country.  For Cuban children in the mid-1970’s and the 1980’s, confidence was placed in both entities. Dependence upon government …

Black Mountain – In The Future

Black Mountain - In The Future
Black Mountain – In The Future

Do you ever dream of traveling back in time and experiencing a different era? Pressing play on Black Mountain’s ironically titled sophomore album, In The Future, is comparable to strapping into the front seat of the DeLorean and being whisked away into the mind-blowing 1960’s.

The opening track “Stormy High” features …