LONDON — This week was the week of castles. I’ve always thought castles were fascinating, and London and the rest of Great Britain certainly have plenty of them to choose from. In this week alone, I managed to visit three. The first castle I visited was the Tower of London, […]

I do not doubt the fact that our educational system is in need of enthusiastic math and science teachers. It is evident based on comparison of test scores that we are behind a significant number of first world countries. In fact, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development […]

Since its September premiere at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, starring Jason Segel and Ed Helms, has created quite a buzz in Hollywood for being a low-budget indie production. Set for release on March 16, 2012, the film tells a tale of two indifferent brothers […]

Lena Dunham may be the luckiest 25-year-old in America. She’s got a Judd Apatow-produced HBO series titled Girls premiering in April. Not only that, her second feature, Tiny Furniture, has garnered heaps of praise by critics, won an Independent Spirit Award and is already being inducted into The Criterion Collection […]

LONDON — One of Europe’s best features is how easy it is to jump from one country to another. If you decide that you want to go to Paris for the weekend, no problem. Just hop on a train that goes under the channel. Of course, my first view of […]

Based on the number of Xavier students present at the Rookwood Whole Foods this past Friday, I would hazard a guess that Five after Five is already a popular go-to for Xavier upperclassmen. But, if you have not heard of it, or you have but have never been, it is […]

Consider the invention of television and the internet. With these two forms of media dominating the output of news today, I sometimes wonder how radio still exists and why people bother listening to it anymore. Even CDs are out of date with the wave of iPods and MP3 players that […]

Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest events of the year. It is so popular that it can be called a de facto holiday. Every first Sunday in February, millions of Americans gather around the television to see the best of best in the NFL duke it out for […]

If you were ever hoping to see a brightly colored, sexy version of Gladiator, Sunday night was your night. Madonna headlined the halftime show for Super Bowl XLVI and the whole experience could be best described as someone gobbling down pieces of cake while shoving ice cream down their throat […]

LONDON, ENGlAND — I knew that I would be having adventures while I was in London, but the last place that I expected to have an adventure was in a museum. On Saturday, I went to the Imperial War Museum with a group from my university. Winston Churchill and World […]