An unimpressive folk-pop release from Skylar Grey
Darius Dupins/Staff Writer Skylar Grey garnered commercial success when featured on several US Billboard Hot 100 singles. It’s been a little more than half a…
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LGBTQA Panther Profile Series: Nicole Albertini
Darius Dupins/Entertainment Director FIU Pride month is well underway. I’ve been lucky enough to get a group of brave students that are willing to live…
Students start a slack lining group on campus
Jay Vanparia/Staff Writer The Modesto A. Madique campus has been the playground for a group of slack line enthusiasts since the beginning of spring break….
No new album from Frank Ocean
Darius Dupins/Entertainment Director It is July 271st and there’s still no new Frank Ocean album. Well after a promised July 2015 release date Ocean has…
After Spring Break Plateau, what’s next?
Nihat Strider/Staff Writer As a trainer, I often get asked the question, “what is the most difficult task?” My answer is that it is more…
Round of Applause
Darius Dupins/Entertainment Director Red Robin honored FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management students Michelle Diaz and Yolanda Suarez on the Burger Bash stage…
Motivate yourself to be the change
Nihat Strider/Staff Writer We all have low points in our lives and in those times we discover who we really are. A few years ago…
Disney gets real in latest animated feature, ‘Zootopia’
Joeseph Cardenas/Staff Writer Over the weekend Walt Disney Animation rolled out its 55th animated feature film, “Zootopia”, and took the world by furry storm. Moreso,…
Remember the black LGBTQA community, too
In all the talk of the fearlessness of Harriet Tubman, the boldness of Rosa Parks, the inspiration that was Martin Luther King Jr. and the groundbreaking achievement of Barack Obama, the lives of black LGBT are often left out of the scope of black history. Bayard Rustin, the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis, Emil Wilbekin, Janet Mock are amongst the many others who deserve just as much recognition as the black trailblazers that don’t identify as LGBT.
TV Talk: ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ carefully and deliberately crafted
Cayla Bush/ Staff Writer “How to Get Away with Murder,” the newest member of the Shondaland line up, has been a critics’ favorite since its…