If you have never been to MGM National Harbor, it is similar to being inside of an airport. There are an assortment of high-class restaurants…
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In the mid-1970s, groups of women settled in Oregon, California and New Mexico in order to occupy a land-based community, by women, for women, that…
On Wednesday Oct. 25, the English department sponsored a colloquium featuring Rafael Walker, visiting professor of English at UMBC. Walker’s interest in American and African…
Writing papers can be an intimidating aspect of university life. To be honest, even writing a 280-character tweet is challenging, so professors are really expecting…
Gwar, a heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, has been doing “their thing” for 33 years now and are still going strong. What is…
This past month, students may have noticed a book popping up all over campus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Purple Hibiscus” was available for free at the…
On Saturday, Sept. 22, singer-songwriter Rachel Joy Pletts played an acoustic set at Brasserie Brightwell, a French bistro in Easton, Maryland. Pletts performed a quick…
The UMBC 2017-2018 Homecoming Comedy Show featuring Trevor Noah and sponsored by the Student Events Board was the largest homecoming comedy show put on in…
Fashion is an art. It is a form of self-expression and a wearable insight into one’s personality. This art, specifically women’s fashion, is known to…
Back in the city where it first premiered, “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage is currently delighting viewers of all ages at Everyman Theatre. While somewhat…
Roses are red Violets are blue Take your next Tinder date to an open mic with you Tim sits at one of the high-top tables…
Political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz visited UMBC on Tuesday, Sept. 26. His comic strip, “La Cucaracha” is one of the few Chicano comic strips in the…
The Department of Visual Arts hosted an artist talk by Washington D.C. based artist, Brandon Morse, last Wednesday. This was Morse’s first visit to UMBC,…
“If you haven’t lost somebody yet, you will. Everyone dies.” –Leslie Pietrzyk Grief is something that everyone experiences more than once throughout their lives and…
The Intercultural Film Festival, on Oct. 4, showcased Biutiful, a film directed by academy-award winning Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The entire film takes place in Barcelona,…
In the wake of black male fetishization, the condemnation of male homoeroticism and the strictures of the societal explanation of masculinity, “Man, Idea, Image: Photographs…