• Election 2016: Inside the Candidate’s Education Platform

    Brandi Abrams   Nothing elicits a visceral response like a conversation about politics.  This election season, more time is being spent covering who said what horrible thing, or who sent what type of email instead of focusing on the facts.   This article is an attempt at a bipartisan explanation of the candidate’s higher education… Read more

  • Mackenzie Bowker Surviving as a Self-Taught Jeweler

    Mackenzie Bowker Surviving as a Self-Taught Jeweler

    Noah Williams   In December of 2012, University of Vermont sophomore, Mackenzie Bowker, walked into a craft store on her winter break and bought a spool of wire. Three and a half years later, she is the creator and owner of Mackenzie Rose Designs, hand making a variety of jewelry from leather bracelets to sterling… Read more

  • Live, Love, Create: “Tbird “

    Jessica Spoto   Sadness rained over her 3 years of pure sadness Nothing, she was nothing   With one moment with one word She is taken back Tbird! Tbird!   One smile , some laughs A heart full again Pure joy, happiness, faith , love, hope   Vines that were once filled with hate Now… Read more

  • Sweater Love

    Sweater Love

    Jessica Spoto   Imagine a young woman in her early to mid 20s walking through the streets of downtown Portland. She is wearing a light green, blue, purple,  and black sparkly, floral patterned, thick, fuzzy sweater from the 1990s. She pairs this unique thrift store find with some black leggings and a nice pair of… Read more

  • Marshaling Cinema: Don’t Breathe A Movie Review

      Ryan Marshall   In 2013, Fede Alvarez made his initial foray into feature-length filmmaking with an update/reboot of Sam Raimi’s classic EVIL DEAD franchise – undoubtedly one of the more watchable genre remakes in recent memory, with plenty of sweet style on display and a strong performance from lead actress Jane Levy, which nonetheless… Read more

  • Marshaling Cinema: Yorgos Lanthimos, Profiles in Directing

      Ryan Marshall Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos, born May 27th 1973, got his start in television and theatre production throughout the 1990’s before trying his hand at feature filmmaking, co-directing MY BEST FRIEND with Lakis Lazopoulos in 2001. Today, he is best known as the mad genius behind 2016’s THE LOBSTER – his first English… Read more