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Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

Lydia Derris

Lydia Derris, Arts and Culture Editor

Lydia Derris is a sophomore from Winston-Salem, N.C. majoring in both biology and English with a psychology minor. On Wake Forest’s campus, she is a contributor with the Magnolia magazine. In her free time, Lydia enjoys rolling around in overgrown fields dotted with daisies, baking blueberry pies from scratch, hypnotizing her friends and smiling indiscriminately at strangers.

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Wake Forest Theater Department hosts highly involved, crowd pleasing productions semesterly. (Courtesy of WFU Theater Department)

2025 Spring Arts Preview

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
February 6, 2025
Are we living in an age overshadowed by the self? Would we lose a piece of ourselves if  we just gave a little more of ourselves, or would we gain something greater?

The religion of the self

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
February 6, 2025
Bob Dylan, the pensive poet that James Mangold recently released a biopic starring Timothée Chalamet (Courtesy of the Associated Press)

Something Complete I’d Rather Unknow

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
February 4, 2025
A fish market in the Vieux Port of Marseille.

Smelling Marseille, excerpts from a journal

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
December 12, 2024
Mark Wojchick, the WoBot Creators's table, being overseen by his wife.

Hey, hey Ardmore Artwalk I wrote you a song

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
November 25, 2024
Lovely caricature artist drawing up a nice little hyperbolic renderings of my friends and I

All’s Fair at the Carolina Classic Fair

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
October 25, 2024
Mathematical Business: River Woods

Mathematical Business: River Woods

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
May 2, 2024
Chemistry: Justin Vinca

Chemistry: Justin Vinca

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
May 2, 2024
"Anonymous Fizz user takes the temperature on campus, checking to see how many students are really down for a TikTok Rizz Party. (Courtesy of Fizz)

Tik Tok Rizz Party

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
April 21, 2024
"Sydney Sweeney produces and stars in the film as the central protagonist who ventures out to serve in a convent in the Italian countryside after her parish outside of Detroit, Michigan closes."(Courtesy of NEON)

Anything But “Immaculate”

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
April 4, 2024
“RiverRun is an Academy-Award-qualifying festival in two of its categories.” (Courtesy of FilmFreeway)

Run to RiverRun 2024!

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor
January 30, 2024
John Wilson stands in New York with his camera.

How to end a series

Lydia Derris, Staff Writer
September 18, 2023
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