TU Poetry Professor Dr. Grant Jenkins opened the annual Tulsa Avant-Garde Poetry Reading (an event where TU students and Oklahoma…
TU Ten: Major Ailments
1. Sociology: a mysterious conviction that they are surrounded by systemic inequality and injustice (they are). 2. Physics: the mistaken…
“Faults” challenges genres, conventions in an intriguing study of family, loneliness
“Faults” is a film that belongs to no one genre, or at least not one readily identifiable. While my favorite…
Frogbelly and Symphony all over the place
Going into this album with only the band name, the album name and the cover art, I didn’t expect much.…
Common inspires despite overlooking social issues
Common, an award-winning hip hop artist from Chicago, spoke at the Reynolds Center last Friday. He began his talk with…
TU Ten: Least Known Spring Break Destinations
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Charlie Hebdo’s Old Testament streak
An image is not the thing it represents. This point was made most poignantly by René Magritte when he wrote…
Writers foretell what’s in new Mumford & Sons album
The album art for “Wilder Mind” is a good indication of what’s inside. In a change from the urban settings…
“Map to the Stars” has potential, wastes it on an incoherent plot
“Map to the Stars” follows a multitude of washups and wannabes as they desperately claw their way up the social…
Poet masterfully comments on race, urban culture
Tyrone Williams, a black poet from Detroit, came to TU’s campus for a reading. Williams is a professor at Xavier…