The law is the latest step in a process of healing colonial scars — but these scars cannot heal while bones and bodies of grandmothers and grandfathers still fill up museum exhibitions.
Working at a supermarket leaves you with two choices: stick to yourself and be miserable or embrace the built-in community. The store might be the last place anyone wants to be, but sharing the hectic experience with each other makes it slightly more bearable. The friends I’ve made during my five years here range from my age — 20 — to 20 years my senior. Age is just a number until after work, when the older crew can be found purchasing craft beer, and I go for a diet peach Snapple.
Only a five-minute drive away from Stony Brook University’s main campus, The Jazz Loft is one of only five jazz museums in the United States. Being a club and performance hall, The Loft promotes jazz conversation through jazz productions and educational outreach. Last fall, I had the opportunity to be a marketing intern at the Loft, which opened my eyes to its deeper narratives and initiatives.
The Brooklyn-based musician shares stories of collaborations, tours, overcoming self-doubt and her recently released Omen EP.
The year is 2014. I’m listening to Lorde’s Pure Heroine while waiting for the bus to middle school — anxious about if I’ll make it there on time. As I scroll through my Instagram feed, I’m welcomed with numerous renditions of the “Keep Calm And Carry On” memes and an influx of The Fault In Our Stars fan edits.
With the sheer volume of projects that Marvel was producing — a new product to consume every few months — media fatigue began to set in for many people. Over time, less people became interested in keeping up with the new movies and shows, resulting in fewer viewers at premieres.
Music and art is subjective; what makes “good” art is totally up to the subject. There are some universal truths about what makes art beautiful, like symmetry, harmony and composition, but the lines are often blurred.
The two and a half hour-long, super-packed and filled to the brim installment offers nonstop action and new character exchanges that comic book fans could have only dreamt of a decade ago, when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) first starred as Iron Man.
Members of the Stony Brook Press picked five of their favorite albums of 2017