The first article I ever wrote for The Weather Vane was a movie review about how I thought the then-recent movie “Guardians of the Galaxy” was better than “The Avengers.” …
Opinion
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Editorial: A Year of Learning to Listen with Vulnerability
Conflict and criticism have always made me uncomfortable. Through high school, I typically stayed silent in class debates for fear of rebuttal and almost always avoided conflict if I could. …
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An Open Look at Feelings and How to Deal with Them
I’m an open and brutally honest person; it’s easy for me to just talk about things that people probably don’t want to hear or need to know, but I say …
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Appreciating Actors: We Cannot Live on Applause Alone
It has come to my attention that when an audience appreciates a work of art — in this case, theater — they generally have one response that the artists hear. …
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Soft Science Is a Useless Distinction with Little Value
Often, in normal vernacular, social sciences — especially psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology — are “soft,” and natural sciences — especially physics, chemistry, and biology — are “hard.” This is …
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The Revolution Will Be Commodified and on Sale at 7/11
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, I assume most of you have heard about Kendall Jenner’s new Pepsi ad, the one in which she hops onto a generic, …
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Disney’s “First Openly Gay Character” Is Nothing New
I went to see the new, live-action “Beauty and the Beast” on Sunday, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s certainly flawed and can never compare to the original, but it …
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Knowing Labels Is Not Enough; Get to Know the Person
The issue of homosexuality has been talked to death over the past couple of years. By now we have all heard all of the arguments: Biblical arguments, legal arguments, ethical arguments. I have …