Broadway in the PAC: You Can’t Take It With You’s Fall Performance

The Madison Theater Department is performing You Can’t Take It With You on October 2-3 at 7PM and October 4 at 2PM. By Ryan Stephens Broadway comes to the Performing Arts Center with theater’s fall rendition of You Can’t Take It With You. Running concurrent with the Broadway run, the theater department will tell the…

Hell is Other Movies: A Recap of Summer 2014 in Movies Part 2

By Ryan Stephens Guardians of the Galaxy did everything right that a movie starring Vin Diesel as a tree and Bradley Cooper as a talking racoon could do. James Gunn, a director more famous for writing movies from Troma, the studio that brought us The Toxic Avenger, and a gross out horror film from 2006,…

Hell is Other Movies: A Recap of Summer 2014 in Movies Part 1

By Ryan Stephens Summer blockbuster movies rarely get outside the comfort zone; profitability and creativity do not go hand in hand for this season. However, the craze for summer movies in 2014 shows that there might be a change in the notion with record lows in the box office. According to The New York Times, the…

Going for Broke at the Grammys

By Ryan Stephens Music constantly evolves with culture, mixing, melding, and molding a whole new expression of identity from several others. The Grammys were created to categorize the best from these expressions, highlighting unique gems from genres. However, this year, the Grammys poorly represented the music genre as a whole. Artists were snubbed in the…

Diagnosis: Senioritis

By Ryan Stephens The season brings every sort of sickness imaginable, some easily curable, others not so easily. Spreading like the plague, illnesses like the flu can incapacitate for weeks. The one that is commonly misdiagnosed goes by the name of Senioritis. Senioritis refers to the level of procrastination that occurs to seniors during this…

Shakespeare in School

By Ryan Stephens Shakespeare started on the stages, lived and breathed on the stages, and that long-lived life continues on with Madison’s Theater Department. Oct 10 through Oct 12, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet will grace the stage of the Performing Arts Center, as performed by the Madison Theater Department. Bradley Fertitta, junior, plays…

WikiLeaking: Bombing in a post WikiLeaks world

By Ryan Stephens Wikileaks exists amongst the pantheon of highly controversial whistleblower acts in history. Julian Assange and his controversial site draws all sorts of opinions and with The Fifth Estate, director Bill Condon throws a new opinion into the fray. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl, The Fifth Estate portrays the story of Wikileaks…

Chvrch is Back in Session

By Ryan Stephens The new wave movement of the 1980s heard its banshee’s cry in the early 1990s but the last decade gave it a well earned revival. Amongst the new wave revivalists, Chvrches presents an exciting case for more modern new wave or synthpop. The Bones of What You Believe, their debut album, brings…

Breaking the Dryspell

By Ryan Stephens & Mackenzie Wallace One minute remaining in the fourth quarter, the Madison Football team pushed forward to score the winning touchdown at Lehnhoff Stadium. On Aug. 30, Madison claimed victory over Steele. The metal bleachers quaked as students, parents, and teachers alike cheered wildly in response to the announcement of Madison’s 45-46…