Photo by Martina AlmeidaTrinity’s annual student gallery exhibition, the Mini, opens this Friday in the Neirdorff Gallery in the Dicke-Smith art building. The exhibit consists of pieces from three groups of collaborating student artists, a feature that started they instituted this year. Each group focuses on one theme around which to center their pieces. One group discusses violence, another looks...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut Holiday movies are a great excuse to stay in for the night and just be lazy in front of the TV screen. However, you are the one who is supposed to be lazy, not the screenwriters of whatever holiday classic you have sat down to watch. “Last Christmas” reverses that, instead offering up a lazy plot...

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Photo by Mona MirpourIt’s a chilly Saturday evening, and the Ruth Taylor courtyard is filled with Trinity students bundled up, waiting for the show to begin. A keyboard and a mic are set on a rug just feet from the audience, and it feels like you’re about to see a celebrity up close. Senior Leah Woehr wanders through the audience,...

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illustration by Andrea NebhutThe first graphic novel I read was a series called "Bone." It follows the Bone brothers and the many adventures they have, with the final book remaining to this day to be one of my favorites. But my perception of graphic novels growing up, as important as they were to me, was that they were for kids...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut This Halloween, Christmas came early for Killjoys everywhere: the American rock band My Chemical Romance (MCR) announced a “RETURN” on their Twitter, quietly advertising tickets for a one-night-only show set for Dec. 20, 2019, in Los Angeles at Shrine Expo Hall. After radio silence, conspiracy theories and a couple of false alarms through the past six...

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Photo by Oliver Chapin-EiserlohRuby Walker is a first-year student at Trinity University, studying art and creative writing. This September, she published her first book “Advice I Ignored: Stories and Wisdom from a Formerly Depressed Teen,” a book based on her own experiences and intended to help teenagers struggling with depression. How did you get started writing your book? How did...

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Photo by Mona MirpourWarm brown light greeted Trinity’s Jazz Ensemble as four of its members took the stage, their instruments already tuned as they settled into their positions. Senior drummer Dominic Walsh and senior pianist Sam Vincent nodded to each other and the music began. The concert started with “St. Thomas,” a sharp song penned by Sonny Rollins that begins...

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Photo by Genevieve HumphreysThis past Saturday, the Trinity community gathered in Laurie Auditorium for the South Asian Student Association’s (SASA) annual celebration of Diwali, one of the major festivals of many major religions common in South Asia. Diwali celebrates the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance. “In India and other places around the world...

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Illustration by Ren Rader When in September the lead for the new Amazon “Lord of the Rings” continuation series was revealed, it reminded me that such a series was in the works. I thought back to 2017 when it was announced that Amazon had purchased the rights to the Tolkien universe for, in my opinion, the paltry fee of $250...

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photo by Mona MirpourFor most Trinity students, Wednesday nights consist of dinner, class and countless hours in the library studying. However, for a select few dedicated thespians, 9:15 p.m. signals the beginning of an evening of singing, dancing and acting. In the Ruth Taylor Fine Arts Center, these diligent actors begin a night’s rehearsal for the fall musical “The Mystery...

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