When my colleague and fellow DEN columnist Kiersten Budz told me that she believes, wholeheartedly, that Pluto should be a planet and that nothing could change her mind, I thought it would be fun to...
Remember my column from nine months ago? I reported on the unfortunate mistrial of actor Danny Masterson, and how he came away with a deadlock juror, allowing him to walk the streets a free man.
Well,...
Welcome back to another week of the Catch-Up, the column where I catch you up on all the goods of the week’s biggest pop culture moments!
Today, we are talking about the event of the summer, Beyonce’s...
I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure you get asked this question a lot: what do you want to be when you grow up/graduate?
How does it make you feel when you are asked it? Confident because you have...
I know what you are thinking, “But Kierstyn, there is no way I could only watch one movie. I need different genres. I cannot watch the same one genre movie forever.”
Well, my dear reader, I have...
NPR reports that "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Concert Film is coming to AMC theaters across the U.S., Canada and Mexico starting Oct. 13.” It turns out that I will be accompanying my wife to the movie.
I...
Believe me when I say I had another story put together for this week, but this story is an urgent one. You might be thinking, “Come on, Brie.” Do you not have anything better to report on other than...
Based off of the 1963 children’s book by Maurice Sendak, "Where the Wild Things Are" takes the audience through the adventures of Max, Max Records, a misinterpreted kid.
After an argument with his...
I am going to let you in on a little secret: I’m over 40, earning my MA from EIU remotely (sadly, nowhere near the campus), and I have not told my family I am starting this column.
What if this flops?...
I grew up hearing that the worst type of nerd was a D&D nerd.
Even now, anytime the word D&D or Dungeons and Dragons is thrown around, it tends to come with “ew, that’s for nerds.”
See,...
Readers of The News may not realize that there are many fully online students that will never pick up a paper copy of Eastern's student run newspaper, or even set foot in Charleston.
According to the...
Mortal versus immortal. That is a never-ending debate many of us have with ourselves and others.
When we think of mortal, we think of ourselves. We are everyday people with everyday objectives. As for...
