MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Have you ever been hyper-aware of the gaze of another person? Maybe you’ve realized someone is staring at you from across the room and it makes you squirm. Or have you ever made prolonged eye…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST (To be read in your best English accent) ‘Twas but a fortnight past, I was honored to have witnessed a certain video from Servants of the Savior — perhaps you, too, had the pleasure of…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST St. Valentine’s Day is upon us, folks, so what better time to talk about love in literature? The fact that love is possibly the most widespread and most-pondered theme in all of literature points to…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST It’s a dark and stormy night. Thunder booms and lightning flashes across the sky, when suddenly – “It’s alive!” the scientist cries. The monstrous creature rises from the table, lumbers around the room and wanders…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Sing to me, muse, of the man of twists and turns – how does an orphan, scholar, $10 Founding Father become so much of a phenomenon that a hit Broadway musical about his life is…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I don’t know about you, but superhero movies are my lifeblood. Every time Marvel comes out with a new film, I run to the theater to get my fix of action, adventure and that obnoxious…
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Books or movies is a question commonly asked in “would you rather” type games. You can probably guess which side I go to on principle. But does it have to be a choice? Too often,…
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Current culture would like us to believe that what we can see is all that exists. Reality is merely what is before you; it’s what you can understand and nothing else. The Spanish author Cervantes…
ALLEGRA THATCHER CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I recently had the pleasure of watching not the movie, but the recorded Broadway production, of “Newsies,” with the original cast. Granted, it was still on a movie screen. But it was definitely a greater…
ALLEGRA THATCHER ASSISTANT EDITOR I’m delighted to announce that over this summer, I finally read a book that I’ve been trying to get my hands on for the past two years. Since it came out two years ago, it’s always…