Arts & Entertainment

Coffee Lovers: Get Your Caffeine Fix Guilt-free

Photo courtesy of Susanne Nilsson, Flickr Creative Commons  For some people, the distinctive smell and taste are the reasons they pry themselves out of bed each morning. What is it? It’s the eye-opening beverage that is consumed daily by an estimated 100 million Americans, and it comes from one small bean: coffee. But […]

Bottle House Premieres as First Student Performance

ldquo;Bottle House,” the first student production of the year, came as a multiwork adaptation based upon the works of legendary playwright, director and actor Sam Shepard. Shepard allowed creators Maria Vail and Sheila Tousey access to his body of work, resulting in a hodgepodge of 45 different sources blending to create one original […]

Apps to Expedite the Writing Process

Photo Courtesy of Evernote Corporation Gone are the days of spending hours correctly citing, and handwriting notes. Now, citation and writing websites are available and highly used. Some even have apps for smart phone users. Easybib is a citation website that allows the user to format information into any kind […]

Halloween Channeled Through Seasonal Films

Halloween is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the scariest day of the year than by turning off the lights, hiding under your blankets and watching some classic Halloween films.  There are, of course, the obvious choices like John Carpenter’s “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th" that deserve some […]

Young Adult Novel Adaptations: Hollywood’s Money Maker

The Hollywood trend of adapting young adult novels into films has been unequivocally lucrative for the past few years resulting in work of this nature infiltrating theaters at an unprecedented rate.  This movement largely began with the “Harry Potter” film series, based off of novels by J.K. Rowling. “Harry Potter and the […]

‘The Judge’: Guilty of Mediocre Plot

Photo Courtesy of Justin Brown, Flickr Creative Commons David Dobkin’s new film, “The Judge,” is remarkable, as it is one of those rare occurrences where audiences get to see Robert Downey Jr. not running around solving crime in Victorian England or saving the world dressed up as a tin can, […]

Carnival Serves as Oktoberfest Staple

This past weekend, Ramapo’s annual Oktoberfest was enjoyed campus-wide, and the most integral facet of the festivities was the carnival. This fall staple is meant to be a reflection of the German tradition that is known worldwide.  “This is my first year doing it and there was a phenomenal turnout, I […]

Netflix to Release Original Films

Photo Courtesy of Franz Richter, Wikimedia  The ever-changing television viewing landscape is one that in recent years has been dominated by Internet advancements, at the forefront of these new measures is streaming giant Netflix.  While Netflix has always been a pioneer in its methods of delivering a wealth of television shows, films, […]