Brown Muslims: This Ramadan, Quit Respectability Politics, AND Your Anti-Blackness
This Ramadan, Brown Muslims need to stop trying to get white people to like us, and instead start checking our family and friends (and...
Pistachios: A Love Letter to Morocco
I remember the joy that filled me the first time my small brown hands cracked a pistachio shell open. I wanted to do what I saw my...
An Interview with DIMMER Front-Man Nathaniel Walker
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit with DIMMER front-man Nathaniel (Nate) Walker to get to know the State College band a bit better....
The “This Semester is Already Not Going Quite as Planned but I’ll Play It Off and Listen to a lot of
Listen, it’s tough. You spend the few weeks before school starts buying notebooks and planners and genuinely believing you – in the...
A Certain Romance: A Love Letter To Arctic Monkeys
"Over there there's friends of mine What can I say, I known 'em for a long long time" Long before sitting in the Penn State College...
Lil Ocean Wave on Fashion, The DMV, and Puppies
Knowing Jalen Grant for a number of years I could always see he had untapped talent. A gifted percussionist, his knack for rhythm and...
Coping With Internalized Homophobia as a Queer Muslim
“That is not us, that is not our culture.” My father would always say when asked what he would say if one of his three Muslim daughters...
Solo Artist Sammy Canillo on Her Latest EP "Dissonance" and More
Sammy Cannillo is a 22-year-old State College area solo artist whose calming sound and simple, balanced melodies have earned her a strong...
Kanye West, Comparisons, and Collaboration: A Look Inside the Creative Mind of Shalom Dubas
If you frequent live shows in the State College/Penn State Main Campus area, chances are you have had the pleasure of hearing Shalom...
#WHATCHUGOT? An Interview With Spoken Word Performer Davon Clark
21-year-old English major Davon Clark started performing his poetry at eighteen after a long love affair with writing. “I started writing...
