The Best of Summer Movies
By Victoria Staub, Arts & Entertainment Editor Summer hosts the premier of many of the year’s blockbuster films. With school being out of session, theaters see an increase in moviegoers, therefore prompting them to release some of their most anticipated films during this time. Summer 2022 was no exception to this, giving us some of this year’s highlights. Here are a few of those features. “Nope” Jordan Peele has become a leading...
The Greatest Night in the History of Television
By Victoria Staub, Arts & Entertainment Editor and Carter Hanson, Magazine Editor The Academy Awards, or Oscars, are demonstrative of the greatest achievements in film of each year, at least according to the Academy. This year’s awards, which were held on March 27, highlighted numerous important and even controversial films from the past year. Arguably, the most important award of the night is for Best Picture, which deems a film...
“Nice Again”: Lauren Browning’s Self-Written and -Directed Play
By Victoria Staub, A&E Editor On Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9, Lauren Browning ’22 opened her self-written, -directed, and -operated play “Nice Again.” Browning is a political science major with minors in writing and theatre arts. “Nice Again” is the second production she has written and directed at Gettysburg with her first being “A Painted Devil” (2019). Despite being only a minor in theater arts, Browning wished...
Class of 2023: Gettyburg’s First Class of All Super-Seniors (April Fools)
By Victoria Staub, Arts and Entertainment Editor Current juniors, the class of 2023, have not had an easy experience at Gettysburg College thus far. Having never experienced a full, normal year at Gettysburg without COVID restrictions, our almost-seniors are not ready to leave. Whether or not they were ready to leave, however, is insignificant given the fact that no student of the class of 2023 will be able to graduate during the...
How COVID Affected the Majestic Theater
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a variety of issues within the entertainment industry, the most critical being a sharp decline in the number of moviegoers. Gettysburg’s historic Majestic Theater has not been spared from the effects of COV- ID and has been forced to adapt to the new landscape of the film industry. During the pandemic, the Majestic was forced to close its doors for 431 days between mid- March of 2020 and late-May of...
