It is a widely accepted fact that Tam is the second-best school for teens in the world. First-place? That immortal stone fortress that has captured all of our hearts: Hogwarts. How exactly do the faculties...

When I first heard Maroon 5 back in the early 2000s, I took almost no interest in the band. I have vague memories of such songs as “This Love” and “She Will Be Loved” playing on the radio,...

It was storming the day I sprinted up my front porch steps to the sound of wailing fire engines, two trucks parked outside our house. To my surprise, I didn’t hear the screams from broken bones or see...

The woman on the screen deliberately brushes her golden locks, unbeknownst that a cloaked man brandishing a dagger approaches with the same deliberation, laced with a murderous streak. The audience writhe...

Sometimes people ask me why I read so much. When they ask this, my response always comes down to, “Because it’s fun.” I must be insane, right? A book is just a bunch of words on a bunch of paper,...

Every clique has its haunt. Be it the plastics populating the mirror in the girls bathroom in Mean Girls, or the ska punk rockers pounding out their angst in the band room; if there’s a group, there’s...

It is hard to be concerned about an issue when you have only heard about it rather than actually made the effort to take a deeper look into it. This was how I felt when I heard about a movie called The...

The most tragic casualty of the rise of the digital age is, without question, written correspondence. I don’t mean emailing, that oh-so-handy virtual mailbox. I mean snail mail, or slip-into-the-locker...

While being smothered in a smoke and laser enhanced atmosphere waiting for DJ act Pretty Lights to come on, I overheard a bewildering conversation between two “fans” who had been bragging about...

As I was walking out of seeing “The Raid: Redemption” back in April, I overheard a man angrily say to the cashier at the box office, “I didn’t pay to read that movie.” Such a sentence is one...

The other day I was approached by a strange figure draped in only an American flag. The figure held two items, a book and an envelope, both of which were shoved forcefully into my arms. Stumbling backward,...