Students learned about Harold Washington’s turbulent journey becoming Chicago’s first Black mayor at The University of Akron’s “Punch 9 for Harold Washington” film screening and Q&A. This event on Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Jean Hower Taber Gardner Theatre was part of the Rethinking Race series on campus.  Rethinking Race is a two-week forum of events focusing...

Elvis: Listen, I love a good biopic more than anyone. Who doesn’t love a feel-good, rags-to-riches story? I have no interest in digging through the darker side of Elvis’s story and clearly, neither did director Baz Luhrman. So, what do you do when you want to shill a technically historically-based biopic? You rewrite a few minor details. Speaking of minors, no one cares if his first wife was 14...

"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four” will be airing on March 8, 2023, at the Jean Hower Taber Student Union from 7 – 9 P.M.   This film is about a shocking example of discrimination shown toward the LGBTQ community in 1995. The screening of this documentary is free and open to the public.  Four Latino women who identified as lesbians were accused of sexually abusing...

At the beginning of the year, various TikTok users started sharing videos of products that were not "worth the hype" or were not worth spending money on.    This trend started on an incline when TikTok user Mikayla Nogueira posted a paid partnership with L'Oréal Paris, advertising their new Telescopic Lift mascara. In this video, it was alleged that she had applied false eyelashes for the "after"...

WARNING: If you plan on seeing this movie, do not read this review (spoilers!).     Finally, a film that is worth the hype. Shot on 16mm film, this film showcases plenty of grain, fluid colors, nature shots, gender politics, violence and all the gore you can ask for. If you love Greek mythology and righteous female rage, then I suggest you stop reading this and go watch for yourself.   We...

Around nine months have passed since the war officially started, and much has changed for Ukraine and its people. Ukrainian citizen Hanna Bezuhla’s story began with The Buchtelite article “Living in War: Ukrainian Women Shares her Experience Behind the Front Lines.” However, the war is still ongoing and the story of the people in Ukraine continues to evolve. “We lost so many cities...