Following the massive financial and critical success of his 2016 movie, Your Name., Japanese animation director and screenwriter Makoto Shinkai quickly became a household name,…
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Why Bother?
By LELAND XU on March 2020
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February 2020 Haiku Contest
By LELAND XU, MAYA BLANCHARD on February 2020
Winner: Censorship By MAYA BLANCHARD Sometimes [redacted] And then I [redacted], but [redacted] and . . . yeah _____________________________ Other Submissions: …
Highway 13 Revisited: Bob Dylan at Ithaca College
By LELAND XU, RYAN CUNNINGHAM on December 2019
When one goes to a Paul McCartney concert, the audience member usually knows what they’re getting themselves into; McCartney will play hits that the majority…
History of Thanksgiving in the United States
By LELAND XU on November 2019
There is a certain dialectic between how American students have perceived Thanksgiving over the course of their education. In elementary school, Thanksgiving is taught as…
An Experiment in Jazz: November 2019 Spotify Playlist
By LELAND XU on November 2019
Honestly, I’m not much of a jazz person. But I’ve been trying to get into it as we enter fall because life is very short,…
No One Makes Haiku Anymore
By LELAND XU on November 2019
I read a book on Haiku for this? Validate, please, my existence.
2019 Back-to-School Playlist
By LELAND XU on September 2019
“Nobody” by Mitski Imagine this: it’s one o’clock A.M., you have homework for four classes that you haven’t even started, you have two projects due…
Album Review: Weezer’s The Teal Album
By LELAND XU on March 2019
Cover songs, and to a lesser extent, cover albums, have always been integral to the musical medium and industry. They allow artists to perform established…
December Haiku Contest: This is a Senryu
By LELAND XU on December 2018
Eating animals Is unethical. We should Eat humans instead
November Haiku Contest: The Return to the Womb “Theory”
By LELAND XU on November 2018
Thanatos, death drive Send me back into the womb Sigmund Freud was right
Sunshine Tomorrow: A Playlist for the Summer
By JEFFERSON SHENG, LELAND XU on June 2018
This summer, whether you’ll be traveling to faraway and exotic locations, going to the pool, or staying at home and studying alone, we put together…
Movie Review: The Death of Stalin
By LELAND XU on May 2018
We live in a world and a time in which Russian affairs and controversies have dominated international news headlines in recent years, ranging from Russia’s…
Club Feature: Tiddlywinks Club
By LELAND XU on December 2017
To me, many clubs at IHS fall under two unfortunate categories. Either they are seen as overly pretentious, due to their academic subject matters or…
Album Review: Triplicate by Bob Dylan
By LELAND XU on September 2017
Ask any well-versed Bob Dylan admirer about why they think his legacy and his work have continued to be influential so long after their conception…