Late Night’s New Kid: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Like a great many Americans, I was very sad to see Jon Stewart leave “The Daily Show.” I first started to watch “The Daily Show” in my freshman year of high school, and seeing Jon Stewart take on all the hypocrisy and stupidity in the world was where I got most of my news. But after sixteen years in the captain’s chair, Stewart decided it was time to move on.

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The Empire Strikes Back

Set for a release date of Nov. 17, 2015, EA and Dice’s collaborative effort at reviving the Star Wars Battlefront series is already surrounded by huge hype.

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Taking Stage: Why Theatre Needs Punk

By: Declan Hertel Entertainment Editor Back in the seventies, disco was king: meaning it was grandiose, self-important, and by the late seventies had metastasized into an elitist ball of sonic suckitude that engulfed popular music. But then punk happened. Punk was...

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2015 NBA FINALS

The NBA Finals Playoff series is set to start in Oakland on Thursday, June 4 with tipoff at 6 p.m. PST. The Golden State Warriors are favored to win the series with in-form Stephen Curry coming in off the back of game three against the Rockets where he broke the...

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Diversity in books still a work-in-progress

By Emily Pate Freelancer Literature can be an escape from everyday life, a place to retreat from reality. And yet, for many, these retreats are not as accommodating- or as representative–as they should be. In 2012, Roxane Gay, writing for the Rumpus, surveyed...

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