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‘Swimming’ through Mac Miller’s final album

27Feb

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‘Swimming’ through Mac Miller’s final album

Photo Courtesy of Kmeron via Flickr Mac Miller performs at Dour Festival in Dour, Belgium, in 2014 By ANA FIERROS Released in August 2018, the late Mac Miller’s “Swimming” shed light on a version of the artist we had no idea existed. The potential for a world of music unbound to his previous works unraveled onto us like a Christmas gift. Here, we caught a glimpse of the ravishing mind of Miller. Within a month, the future that we looked forward to disappeared when he accidentally overdosed in September 2018. Now, a little over a year later, we get “Circles,” a posthumous album, counterpart to “Swimming.” It is a culmination of a journey we craved to see. This is not what was expected of Miller, but then again, neither was “Swimming.” Miller would’ve done just fine chart-wise if he...

Letter from the Editor: Put your mind and your grind to it

27Feb

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Letter from the Editor: Put your mind and your grind to it

By ELLIANA KOPUT In 2017, an Instagram motivational speaker by the name of Amber Wagner, or “justlbby,” posted a video. The dialogue has haunted my reality ever since. “You!” Wagner smacks her lips. “You are the motherfucking shit! You are great! You are magnificent! You can do whatever you wanna do in this world!” This video surfaced in my life during a time of lucid self-doubt, a feeling each of us knows all too well. From all-nighters spent completing previously procrastinated homework assignments, to wading through the murky waters of minimum-wage service jobs, today’s young people are often overlooked as true warriors. As many Gen Z-ers can agree, social media has become a tool for emotional coping, and its archives will one day be analyzed sociologically. Today’s memes an...

18Feb

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2020 Oscars: hostless with the mostest

photo courtesy of wikipedia By DALTON GRIJALVA The Oscars have been, to say the least, a lackluster popularity contest in the inner circles of celebrity ties. Most of the time, the awards are full of pretentious pictures that most will never watch that don’t connect with many actual movie-goers. The 2020 Oscars ceremony was actually a quite pleasant experience: “A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.” For example, Eminem came out of nowhere halfway through the ceremony to perform “Lose Yourself,” a performance that was 18 years overdue. The crowd’s reactions started with confusion, but eventually some celebrities, such as Zazie Beats, appeared to be into it. Though “Joker” was the most nominated film of the evening, “Parasite” was the scene-stealer of the night, winning four out of ...

Letter from the Editor- You don’t know Jackson

12Dec

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Letter from the Editor- You don’t know Jackson

By JOE GIDDENS To steal a line from Bill Hicks: “We always kill the good guys and let the demons run amok. Gandhi: murdered Jesus: murdered Andrew Jackson… wounded.” Turns out that perhaps the only thing our seventh president enjoyed more than ethnic cleansing of indigenous people was violence against individuals who wronged him. Over his too long of a life, he engaged in possibly over 100 duels. On May 30, 1806, the future president squared off against a fellow plantation and horse enthusiastm, Charles Dickinson, in Logan, Kentucky. Gambling wagers and insulting of wives led to Jackson taking a bullet to the chest and a lifetime of chronic pain from the wound. Jackson, with his hand over the wound, returned fire, killing Dickinson. Dickinson’s life ended with a kill-death ratio of...

Letter from the Editor: An Open Letter to Notch

21Nov

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Letter from the Editor: An Open Letter to Notch

By JOE GIDDENS An open letter to “Notch” Dear Markus “Notch” Persson, Congratulations are first in order for the singular achievement that is “Minecraft.” Few video games can match its critical and commercial impact. Over 176 million copies have been sold as it nears its 10th anniversary. In the video game industry, the advancement of technology grinds most games that have been out close to a decade into obsolete dust. However, the fact that people globally are still enjoying your creation is a testament to it. Minecraft is an endless variety of worlds to explore and create in a near boundless space that is even larger than our own planet. It’s against that background that your own present existence looks all the more cruelly ironic. It feels out of a Charles Dickens’ novel that ...

Letter from the Editor: The Legend of “Camaro Joe”

6Nov

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Letter from the Editor: The Legend of “Camaro Joe”

By JOE GIDDENS “Camaro Joe.” Essentially, it would be a live-action “Magic School Bus,” with a smaller cast and an identical copy of my first car, a blue-green ’91 Chevy Camaro RS. Every episode would begin with me asking the precocious diverse cast of child actors, “Hey kids! What do we want to learn today?” That would be followed by spending the next half-hour going out into the world in the Camaro to experience first hand whatever the kids said. That’s my daydream elevator pitch for a PBS children’s show. After all, “Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.” It is an idea shared by both the poet John Keats and naturalist Freeman Tilden. But I’ve heard Alton Brown describe it better as the “Monkey Touch Monolith Moment” in reference to “2001: A Space Odyssey.” “Cama...

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: We are all Toby Keith

24Oct

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: We are all Toby Keith

By JOE GIDDENS We are all Toby Keith. Words that I never imagined I would string together. However, you can see the U.S.’s Middle East policies for both 2019 and 2001 are personified in the singer-songwriter who’s in the closing stretch of his “That’s Country Bro!” tour. To go back to May 2017, Keith put on a concert in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh. I’m assuming the set list didn’t include performing his post-9/11 hit “Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American),” before the country of origin of 15 of the 19 hijackers. “(My dad) would be so angry right now to know that we’ve gotten so soft,” Keith said in an interview about that song with country-music website The Boot a month before the performance. “You have to be stronger and know right from wrong, instead of right ...

Cowboys have a Super Bowl appearance in their future

24Oct

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Cowboys have a Super Bowl appearance in their future

By JOSHUA SHAVER The Dallas Cowboys are 4-3 this year, and their schedule only gets tougher from here on out. The team will face the Philadelphia Eagles again, the New England Patriots on the road and the Chicago Bears on the road. The Cowboys schedule is as tough as it comes. With that being said, the Cowboys will make the Super Bowl, and here’s why: The Cowboys have been the best team on offense in the league so far this season. Offensively, the Cowboys - through seven games - rank third in passing yards and first in total offense. The Cowboys are averaging 27 points a game, so they are pretty elite compared to the league average offensively. Quarterback Dak Prescott is ranked first in QBR, which is the best stat for rating quarterback performances. Prescott is third in p...

Ackerley: JUMPIN FOR A SAFE, CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

17Oct

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Ackerley: JUMPIN FOR A SAFE, CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

By Dr. ED ACKERLEY The future of Tucson rests with the important election for Mayor on November 5. Tucsonans have the opportunity to vote for one of three candidates who have differing views on Tucson’s future. I am running as a Tucsonan, not as a Republican or Democrat or any other party. The vision that I have for Tucson is one that is safe, with good roads and clean, green parks – as this is what the Charter for the city instructs Mayor and Council to prioritize. The founders of our community envisioned a Tucson where the citizens were protected and safe, where the roads were complete and in good shape, and that the parks would be accessible in every neighborhood to provide families an outdoor area to come together as community. The discussion of climate change has ...

10Oct

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System change for climate change

This opinion is printed with permission of TucsonSentinel.com Original can be found at: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/091719_cease_climate_op/cease-system-change-needed-fight-climate-change By MIKE CEASE Special to TucsonSentinel.com Climate change is the most catastrophic environmental, social and economic crisis that the human species has ever faced. Impacts include rising average temperatures, vanishing polar ice, melting glaciers, stronger storms, rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, worsening droughts, growing deserts, increasing wildfires, more disease, hunger, world-wide climate refugees and human misery. While the ruling class mostly denies or ignores the issue, young people get it. Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg sailed into New York l...