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Heartbeat

Heartbeat

Anonymous April 23, 2025

It always starts like this — a whispered name of someone you’ll never speak to again, a memory you thought you forgot until you’re at Stav with your friend and they’re 15 feet away. “Tinder guy,”...

MediaBeat: Hypermasculinity and queerness in “Moonlight”

Lizzie Elsenpeter, Staff Writer April 23, 2025

Media is one of the most influential and important aspects of popular culture. Specifically film media, such as movies and shows. Movies and shows tend to shape many of our perspectives and can shed light...

STOReviews: “A Minecraft Movie”

Annie McMullen, Copy Editor April 23, 2025

I don’t know about everyone else, but I was an avid “Minecraft” player on my Kindle Fire back in 2012, and still fall victim to the infamous “two-week ‘Minecraft’ phase” a few times a year....

Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert: A review

Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert: A review

Juliet Stouffer, A&E Correspondant April 23, 2025

National Public Radio’s (NPR) Tiny Desk Concerts have been around since 2008, providing a platform for artists to have a more unplugged sound in a smaller space and with a smaller crowd. I first found...

“Art and Soul” craft circle invites students to “experiment with creativity”

“Art and Soul” craft circle invites students to “experiment with creativity”

Julia Thomas, Contributing Writer March 26, 2025

Every Tuesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., the new “Art and Soul” craft circle meets in the DiSCO Cave in Rolvaag. This new group is organized through the Lutheran Center and is led by Campbell Kirley ’27....

Art around Olaf: Pausing to reflect

Art around Olaf: Pausing to reflect

Mexica Greco, Visual Director March 26, 2025

As my last semester of college comes to an end, I have been thinking about what highlights my experience at St. Olaf. One of the first things that comes to mind is all of the art I have engaged with around...

StoReviews: Playboi Carti’s “Music” is worth the hype

Louise Skokan, Staff Writer March 26, 2025

The long-awaited third studio album from Playboi Carti, “Music,” was released on March 15 after five prolonged years of waiting and hype from both the artist and his fans.  With a runtime of one...

Bringing house to the Hill: an interview with Group Project MN

Bringing house to the Hill: an interview with Group Project MN

Katherine Stoneman, Contributing Writer March 26, 2025

If you have ever been to the Contented Cow in downtown Northfield, there is a good chance that you have heard the work of Group Project MN, a group of St. Olaf student DJs who formed with the goal of bringing...

Swipe right for love, left for therapy: The perils of dating apps at St. Olaf

Swipe right for love, left for therapy: The perils of dating apps at St. Olaf

Anonymous, Contributing Writer March 26, 2025

As anyone at a small liberal arts college may understand, running into the same faces daily can be both a blessing and a curse. This small college familiarity feels especially cursed when those same faces...

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

Kathryn Looney, Opinions Editor March 26, 2025

There is a quote by Toni Morrison that I often think about: “Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it’s not a compelling...

Programming board hosts eclectic Silent Disco

Juliet Stouffer, A&E Correspondent March 19, 2025

St. Patty’s weekend is full of activity, but my favorite part is The Silent Disco. The opportunity to be able to jam out to Twenty One Pilots at a school dance? No way! Unheard of! Well, not at this...

Community through music: Philharmonia’s collaboration with the Northfield High School orchestra

Lucy Call, Copy Editor March 19, 2025

On March 15, Philharmonia, St. Olaf’s resident ensemble orchestra, performed in a collaboration with the Northfield High School Camerata — Northfield High School’s orchestra — in the Skoglund auditorium. In...

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