Maria Jungers, Assistant A&E Editor
• October 10, 2020
Although the creative clubs offered at CSUSM aren’t as tangible as they were pre-COVID, they now exist in the comfort of students’ own homes.
2020 has definitely been a rollercoaster of a year, and the ways students express themselves has changed.
The creative clubs are here to breathe...
Poems of Myth and Memory
By Jules Appleton
Bodies of the Wood
Bodies of the wood
Collide
Have you ever seen a more beautiful sight?
Olympus hasn’t
They become olive trees
Their limbs bear fruit
Just as the oracle said
Cave Walls
Our feet shined...
Movie - The Frozen Ground
Director Scott Walker delivers a suspense-drenched film that manifests fear and urgency as an escapee becomes a breakthrough in a detective’s cold case. Jack Halcombe (Nicholas Cage) and Cindy Paulson (Vanessa Hudgens) join forces to incarcerate a double-life serial...
The new live-action remake of Mulan breaks waves in the cinematic universe of Disney. With a slightly different story to tell, this film honors the 1998 original while producing new ways of appreciating Chinese culture.
Although the new film lacked certain memorable aspects of the original, Mulan...
Many people know George Takei from his work in the Star Trek franchise, but until recently, many were unaware of a monumental part of Takei’s childhood.
After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, sending the National Guard to remove any Americans of Japanese...
The College of Humanities, Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences (CHABSS) is hosting a monthly creative works contest called CHABSS Voices.
The intent behind these monthly competitions is to not only encourage student creativity given that classes are online, but to also “help engage and inspire...
The CSUSM theater department’s first virtual show, titled “Alma,” premiered on YouTube on Sept. 24. More than 80 audience members streamed the first live performance.
“Alma” tells the story of a Mexican immigrant mother, Alma, and her 17-year-old daughter, Angel. The story takes place towards...
Drown
By Magali Castillo
All we know is yesterday, today and tomorrow.
All we do is sleep, eat and repeat.
All we do is stay in a web of technology.
What does love even mean now?
What does talking one on one even feel now?
What does a life even mean?
It's...
Spending the days aimlessly scrolling through the internet while trapped at home is a story that is all too familiar.
This concept is played on in the South Korean zombie apocalypse film #Alive. The feature debut of director Cho Il-hyung, #Alive was recently released globally via Netflix bringing...
English Anguish by Alya Burnand
Take time to try a tongue twister
A total tonal tango
Through rules that are almost sinister
Spelling doesn’t guarantee rhyme, though
Attempt an awesome alliteration
Or concoct a complicated consonance
English eagerly awaits to...
Art studios, performance centers and even movie theaters have closed their doors amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with no exception for the arts at CSUSM.
The art, music and theater departments attempt to find a way for students and staff to maintain normalcy given these changes.
This online-only...
Tenet, a highly-anticipated original film by Christopher Nolan, redefines the genre of traditional espionage movies.
Nolan can be credited for his swift, complex films that inspire a new form of moviemaking. This visual masterpiece does not depend on CGI to carry the intense effects of the film,...
