What would you do if your best friend went missing? Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), single mother and aspiring vlogger, confronts this frightening question when fellow mom Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) …
Silas Clymer
Staff Writer
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Review: Crazy Rich Asians
It is hard to resist a good love story. The nice thing about John M. Chu’s “Crazy Rich Asians” is that it begins with its two stars happily together, saving …
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‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is Funny and Poignant
Meet Ron Stallworth, the first African-American officer of the Colorado Springs Police Department. The year is 1979. One day, Stallworth sees an ad in the local newspaper seeking members to …
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Fallout Delivers As an Explosive Sequel
The world has no shortage of blockbuster action series to offer. Centered on premises ranging from covert agents to superheroes, street racers to enormous vehicular robots, these franchises tend to …
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Spring Theater Production: “Spitfire Grill”
“The Spitfire Grill,” EMU’s spring musical, opens this Friday, April 13 in the Mainstage Theater. The production will feature folksy music including live guitar, piano, accordion, violin, and cello, as …
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Astral Society Visits Green Bank Telescope
On Saturday morning, March 24, members of one of EMU’s newly-formed clubs, the Astral Society, gathered their sack lunches before venturing into the mountains of West Virginia. A two-hour drive …
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Finding a Balance Between Work and Play
Time is a valuable thing, and no one likes having it wasted. That is why it can be helpful to be aware of how one is spending it. How each …
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King Writes on Experience With Survivors
“Ghosts in the trees.” Last Thursday, that was the first sentence read aloud from “Day of All Saints,” the subject of EMU’s latest “Writers Read.” It is a novel written …
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Campus Debate: Can War Ever Be Justified?
The Common Grounds coffeehouse was packed with EMU students and community members alike on Tuesday evening, Feb. 13. They were drawn there by a question that rests at the heart …
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Steven David Johnson’s “Vernal Pools”
The atmosphere in Common Grounds has been, as of late, embellished by the sound of frog calls. These noises come in waves and are subtle enough that the listener may …