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Haven Sidell: Managing Costume Creation

By Katlynn Rossignol “You think of the stereotypical costumer; and she’s like, frizzed and frazzled and running around and always has a measuring tape on her neck,” said Haven Sidell, Cedarville University’s  costume shop manager. “The number of times I’ve left the shop and forgotten to take my measuring tape off my neck is so many. It’s definitely a stereotype for a reason.”   It’s hard to describe the vast scale of the costume shop storage hidden on the ...

Sidelining Sundays: The impact of youth sports

By Emily Tuttle You’ve seen it before: dozens of five-year-old girls running around on a soccer field dressed in purple jerseys, worried more about picking dandelions than putting the ball in the goal. The game doesn’t stop at five. As these children grow up, weekends are full of traveling to the next state for a tournament. And parents continue to swipe their credit cards for uniforms, team fees, hotels and anything needed for their child to succeed.  But should success be ...

Yellow Springs: A community haven in the local news firestorm

The award-winning News serves up everything from government meetings to community life By Maggie Fipps YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio  – The village of Yellow Springs is home to 3,718 people, but you wouldn’t know it by walking through the vibrant downtown. Walk down Xenia Avenue, and you pass the baby-blue Sunrise Cafe. The Little Art Theatre juts its small marquee into the main street a little farther down. Across the street, Tom’s Market sells groceries out of the same brick ...

Newspapers and memories not as compatible as they once were

Washington Court House Record-Herald works to satisfy longtime readers with fewer editions, younger readers on Facebook By Maggie Fipps WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio – February 3, 1937. The first publication date for the Washington Court House Record-Herald. As with many dailies in the 20th century, the Herald merged with the Record Republican “to serve the merchants and the people of this community in any way which a paper can be of service,” according to an ad in that day’s ...

Struggling to survive in Xenia

As newspapers across the United States shut down, Xenia's newspaper keeps grinding along. Editor’s note: Since the reporting for this article, Scott Halasz no longer works for the Xenia Daily Gazette. By Maggie Fipps XENIA, Ohio – Scott Halasz, former editor at the Xenia Daily Gazette, had to scrap to stay in journalism. Admittedly, it wasn’t his first choice. In high school, they had meetings for clubs students could join as electives: yearbook, newspaper, and radio. ...

The Writers’ Block: Chapter 4, From newspapers to online

Newspapers are the foundation of journalistic writing. In this episode, hosted by Cedarville sophomore journalism student Balen Allain and journalism professor Jeff Gilbert, we discuss the history and evolution of newspapers from at least two in every city, to at most one in every city and the transition to the digital online world.

‘The Last of Us’ season two starts quiet but strong

By Ben Konuch “You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud.” When “The Last of Us” premiered on HBO in 2022, it quickly became one of the most well-received video game adaptations of all time. Following a harrowing journey across a violent post-apocalyptic America, HBO’s “The Last of Us” focused more on the human drama of loss, grief and love than it did on action. Anchored by stellar lead performances by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, the series ...

‘Severance’ season two immerses audiences in a split reality

By Teagan Warren Many people crave to escape the tedious, stressful or confining nature of work. These people live for life’s adventures and pleasantries. Other individuals find their refuge in work from difficult home situations, enjoying the empowerment of doing good work. If these ideas connect with you, perhaps I could interest you in a procedure called “severance.” In season one of the hit television series “Severance,” Mark Scout received this procedure to escape his ...

‘A Minecraft Movie’ is certainly a movie about Minecraft

By Sophia Monastra I have one game on my computer, and it’s Minecraft. There’s something about it–the sleepy villages, the ruins left by unknown people, the horrifying mobs that crawl out at night, the strange and unusual biomes and the general vastness of the open world that keeps on calling me back. I don’t play as much as I should, but Minecraft has been a way for me to connect with my younger sister, whether we’re watching an SMP on YouTube or playing side by side on different ...

The princess saves herself in ‘MAYHEM’s’ story

By Justin Kemp Mother Monster is back with what fans and critics are calling her best album yet. While not the unleashed, grungy, dark-pop sound fans expected from lead single “Disease” and the album’s promo, Lady Gaga’s “MAYHEM” is an immaculately crafted experience through the inner turmoil of an artist who has spent half her life in the limelight. Its bombastic, gothic exterior quickly reveals a beating heart full of pain and ready to embrace its fractured pieces in all their ...