“A riot is the language of the unheard.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more…
Archive for Katharine Schwab
(‘15, English, Outgoing Editor-in-Chief) likes to write songs about gravity and days that don't end. Katharine is from Pasadena, CA and she's only been to one Rose Bowl game. Ever.
safety and no safety : YOUR FALL BREAK PLAYLIST
Music matters. Listen, think.
*Word limits temporarily lifted. Read more…
pooling resources: YOUR WEEK NINE PLAYLIST
Pools. Glistening, blue depths you pretended to be brave about at age five; the five-buck-bet on who’ll win March Madness; the glorious clacking sound of heavy balls hitting each other on a soft green landscape. Or, Tuesdays in the Pool Room. We’re hosting tomorrow. Come out to Kairos at 9pm. Read more…
Dr. Livingstone, I presume: YOUR WEEK EIGHT PLAYLIST
On this day in 1871, journalist Henry Stanley found explorer and missionary David Livingstone in modern day Tanzania after he had lost contact with Europe for six years. What if homeboy just didn’t want to be found? Read more…
gimme some mo’ : YOUR WEEK SEVEN PLAYLIST
Overheard in the dorm: ¨I mean, I have some fuzz coming in, yeah, sure, it’s definitely visible. Yeah. Uh-huh. No. I mean it’s only the third, mom, you gotta give it some time.¨ Read more…
Lit Crawl by the Senses
The communal telling of stories is so different from the one on one, tactile relationship a reader has with her book. When we shove into small rooms and co-opt public spaces to hear the written word together, we hope to recover something of campfires and caves — dark, echoing places where words are pulled out of solitary abstraction and into living voice. Read more…
fda-unapproved: YOUR WEEK SIX PLAYLIST
There’s only one cure for the heavily contagious Week Six Soul Sucking Blues, and it’s been in front of our faces the whole time, people: you just gotta get an extra lil’ dose of soul in your veins.
StAR is happy to provide the necessary supplements. Read more…
i’m just tryna live: YOUR WEEK FIVE PLAYLIST
California Voter Registration closes today. Shout out to contributor Libby Scholz for the reminder and the message collab from Lil’ Jon and Lena Dunham (what?). I would have loved to have been in that pitch meeting. Read more…
Dam It: Scribbles 007-009 from the Anderson Collection
Brilliant colors coalesce into globulous, interlocking forms reminiscent of cells under a microscope. Zoom in on a drop of blood or a flap of skin and you find abstraction as the basic form of human life; Francis puts the organic, dripping mess on the wall as art. Read more…
giving you the runaroundabout : YOUR WEEK FOUR PLAYLIST
There is now a traffic circle at Escondido and Campus Drive.
This is going to be a disaster. Read more…