Rapper SiR (Darryl Farris) signed with Top Dawg Entertainment (T.D.E) just this year. He’s been featured on other artists’ tracks before, such as Isiah Rashaad on The Sun’s Tirade and Jay Rock’s album 90059 in 2015, according to Hip Hop DX. SiR just released his EP titled Her Too. The six song tape is a…
By Tom Cottingham Features Editor Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s Big Band returns to the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on March 14 at 7 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. Leslie M. Sabina, Ph.D., will be playing the saxophone along with the band. Sabina, who has attended many BOP performances,…
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a masterpiece, timely revealed within a cultural context of poor race relations; the film takes a stab at an issue that’s plagued America for centuries: slavery. And, yes, it’s based in the modern-day, where forced expectations and norms become a form of slavery. The psychological thriller is situated upon a…
By Brianna McKnight Staff Writer Now that winter is coming to an end —, for real this time, it is time to start transitioning your outfits from dull colors and layers to brighter colors and lighter weight clothing. This transition won’t be all that simple. Mostly because Mother Nature loves watching our confused selves adapt…
By Dom LoVallo Managing Editor Students gathered in the Walsh Science Center Amphitheater Tuesday to watch a documentary about Aldo Leopold. Leopold is a conservationist and considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology. “It was here that I first clearly realized that land is an organism, that all my life I had…
Tom Cottingham Features Editor The hit musical La La Land seemed to have everything Hollywood desires: great acting, great singing and great production. It was on track to win the “Best Picture” award, and it did, until the biggest fail in Oscars’ history happened in front of millions of viewers. As the…
By Dom LoVallo Managing Editor Tonight, two clubs on campus will come together and present an Open Mic Night in Café La Verna. Chattertons, St. Bonaventure’s poetry club, and The Laurel, the university’s literary magazine organized the event. Michael O’Malley, co-editor of The Laurel, enjoys how the magazine promotes student expression and that will also…
“Why does everything have to be so political?” This notion roars its head from the unshackled mouths of conservative viewers after just about every major, televised event — despite an amendment that warrants uproar of any legal caliber. With this month’s annual Super Bowl performance, we heard a mix of emotions — manifested in social…
By Tom Cottingham Features Editor The Bonaventure Education Association and Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, are holding book drives to benefit the Olean Head Start program. According to the official site, “the program is designed primarily for children whose families fall within the federal poverty income guidelines.” “We’re working together to try…
By Ellen Piper Contributing Writer On Feb. 11, six couples gathered to learn from St. Bonaventure Sous Chef, Justin Maxson. These were the first classes offered this semester after a successful offering of classes last semester. Teaching is something that Maxson has always wanted to do because he is so outgoing and loves to see…
By Brianna McKnight Contributing Writer As I talked about last week, the 80s are making their way back into our lives now, and we just have to know how to pull it off. Hair will be seen becoming bigger and fluffier, pastels and bold colors are going to find their way into your closest and…
Sampha Sisay, a British singer, songwriter, and record producer from London, released his debut album, Process, on Feb. 3. Some popular songs by Sampha can be found as features with Drake, Kanye West, Solange and others. Sampha’s album is unlike other hip-hop hits. The experience is more of an emotional journey through the heartbreak and…
By Yoselin Person Features Assignment Editor As we’re into the second week of February, we will also be heading to the day that consists of Romantic love. People giving cards and flowers. Doing something unforgettable for your partner or crush- it’s called Valentine’s Day. St. Bonaventure students said they consider Valentine’s Day to be a…
A&E’s psyche-twisting, jaw-dropping series Bates Motel is scheduled to launch its fifth installment this month — drawing from chilling, past plots and projecting the ongoing empire into heightened show time success. On Feb. 20, Bates fans will be reacquainted with Norma and Norman Bates, and all their subsequent sideshows — the supporting characters who always…
By Brianna McKnight Contributing Writer Spring 2017 is coming up soon, and it’s introducing many new trends. It is bringing back old trends, as well as keeping some existing trends that are already in style. The new styles introduced during the fashion weeks’ in Paris and New York City consist of many trends that might…
By Tom Cottingham Features Editor Everybody has already heard of the heroic (or in some fans’ case, annoying) performance by Tom Brady and the New England Patriots to comeback from a 28-3 deficit to win the Super Bowl. The game itself is the reason why millions of Americans watch the annual showdown every year, but…
By Yoselin Person Features Assignment Editor The month of February is Black History Month, and we are reminded of Emmett Till’s murder. Recently, the news of Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant, 82 years old, from Indianola, Mississippi, has broken her silence of falsely accusing Till in being “inappropriate” with her. For six decades, Bryant…
By Alexis Young Staff Writer Thursday, Punxsutawney, PA—affectionately called Punxsy by locals—celebrated the 131st anniversary of Groundhog’s Day. For those who don’t know what Groundhog’s Day is, every February 2nd, a local groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil is pulled from his burrow on top of Gobbler’s Knob to predict the coming of spring. If Phil…
By Cameron Pettrone Contributing Writer St. Bonaventure presented the 2016 docudrama “The Sultan and the Saint” in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts Wednesday. The film depicts Francis of Assisi striving for common ground with Malik al-Kamil, the Sultan of Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade in 1219, in which members of the…
By Brianna Mcknight Contributing Writer The first three weeks of the semester are great for the most part. You get to class on time, and maybe even early. You wake up with enough time to shower and eat, and have more motivation to get dressed nicely, but then you get settled in. Now your…