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'Covers the campus like the magnolias'
"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

The Value Of Being Learned Is Not Respected

The Value Of Being Learned Is Not Respected

Kyle Ferrer November 8, 2018

The political culture at present is one of total and perpetual negation. Decorum holds no place, institutions are being undermined and a regime based on a cult of personality is being established. Some...

First Man Focuses In On Neil Armstrong

“First Man” Focuses In On Neil Armstrong

Kyle Ferrer November 1, 2018

“Neil, you’re bouncing off the atmosphere.” Yes, Neil, the atmosphere. Such is one of the first lines uttered in Damien Chazelle’s new film, First Man, a powerful and gritty Neil Armstrong biopic...

I Miss My Editorial Position At The OGB

I Miss My Editorial Position At The OGB

Kyle Ferrer November 1, 2018

Halfway through a semester in Denmark, I feel it may be time to pay my respects. To what? God? The deceased? The widow herself? No, to my position, or more so my presence, at the Old Gold & Black. ...

Private Life Locks You In An Intimate Experience

“Private Life” Locks You In An Intimate Experience

Kyle Ferrer October 25, 2018

Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti), the 40-something, art-urbanites at the center of Private Life, could have reached Sartre’s final waiting room. They find themselves squeezed and hunched...

Grappling With The Fundamental Desire To Create

Grappling With The Fundamental Desire To Create

Kyle Ferrer October 25, 2018

There is, I think, a fundamental desire in man to create, to not only base knowledge or profession solely off of an expert-to-learner basis, but to contribute something new, catalyze change, proffer novelty....

A Simple Favor Attempts To Fit All Genres, Fits None

“A Simple Favor” Attempts To Fit All Genres, Fits None

Kyle Ferrer October 18, 2018

About 15 minutes into A Simple Favor, my friend beside me leaned over and whispered “Hm. Interesting tone.” It was a query masquerading as a comment, basically meaning, “What is the tone?” As the...

Visiting Russia Breaks Down Stereotypes

Visiting Russia Breaks Down Stereotypes

Kyle Ferrer October 18, 2018

It seems banal to say that we do not truly know a place until we’ve experienced it. Yet with Russia, I had preconceived a vague and judgmental body of knowledge that was almost wholly without context....

Girls Like You Is A Beautiful Cultural Snapshot

“Girls Like You” Is A Beautiful Cultural Snapshot

Kyle Ferrer October 4, 2018

We live in a society of personalities. The nebulous wrestling match among celebrities permeates our lives on the radio, television and in film. It is an easy trend to pick up on and track. But the music...

The Futility Of Recreating Experience Is Daunting

The Futility Of Recreating Experience Is Daunting

Kyle Ferrer October 4, 2018

Thought and language define infinite experience. Pure experience pales when human beings attempt to preserve it. On a fundamental level, any and every attempt to record sensory experience strikes just...

Marc Maron Has Valuable Perspective

Marc Maron Has Valuable Perspective

Kyle Ferrer September 20, 2018

Some people have a voice that blooms into portraiture. Their bellow, twitter or growl fills up the empty, imaginary husk of their being, and pushes a sort of synesthesia that forms from their sound an...

An Americans Take On Danish Bike Culture

An American’s Take On Danish Bike Culture

Kyle Ferrer September 20, 2018

Every American, at one point or another, has been pissed off at a biker. They may have just edged onto the highway, out of their sliver of afterthought on the side of the road, or in fact taken up an entire...

Film Beautifully Captures PTSD Experience

Film Beautifully Captures PTSD Experience

Kyle Ferrer September 13, 2018

One must wake to Leave No Trace as one wakes to the world. Senses must stir and adjust. The mind must prickle to the rhythm of the film, just as the mind slowly attunes itself, after unlimited adventures,...

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