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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
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Tunesday: Video game music to study to

This playlist is a selection of video game music that, when appreciated alone, will help you to tune out the distractions and get down to work.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

YouTube: Let’s talk about that — critically

There is an art to making online video content, a language to be explored, a foundation for critical thinking that we should be psyched to get in on.
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
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Cinema Spelunking: What in tarnation is a Western?

When filmmakers fixed their gaze upon the Western, the genre had already planted strong roots in its conventions, fertilizing a vast landscape of stories and characters ripe for artistic reproduction.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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Tunesday: Queer female songs for fall 

As fall comes to a close and holiday music starts to take over every station, let’s take some time to sit back and appreciate the transitional nature of the fall season and the queer female music that matches it.
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Monday, November 9, 2020
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That’s a Wrap: Movie releases you might’ve missed in October

Film beat reporters Olive Grimes and Maya Thompson are here to help you stay up to date on all the new releases that may have fallen through the cracks. 
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Monday, November 2, 2020
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How Among Us turns accessibility into achievement

There’s such a universality to playing Among Us that finding and ejecting impostor crewmates almost traverses a language barrier. “Sus” isn’t English; it’s Among Us language.
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Friday, October 30, 2020
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Top 3 most terrifying survival horror games for Halloween

There is no form better suited to immersing audiences in the role of the vulnerable, irrational protagonist besieged by dangers than the survival horror video game subgenre.
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Friday, October 30, 2020

Don’t press skip: Music highlights you might have missed in October

Music beat reporters Vincent Tran and Crew Bittner are here to provide you with a few recommendations, as well as a playlist, of highlights you might’ve missed in the music world this past month.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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‘Emily in Paris’ is corporate America’s deluded fantasy

“Emily in Paris” is rife with hedonistic men and catty women, layering stereotypes on top of each other as erratically as Emily layers some of her outfits.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
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Hey Netflix, why are your queer shows first to go?

All of these shows have one common denominator: They displayed a queer storyline that was just starting to blossom, and then, despite their popularity, they were axed. 
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