More than 40 SFUAD students gathered Feb. 15 for Cupid is Stupid, a celebration of the joy of being single with food, music and live performances by students and a comedian.

Check out this week’s Awkward Shelby comic, “Colors,” and come to the GSA club, which meets on Fridays!

The first open mic of the semester provided a fresh take—with words and music.

Marion Center is filled until mid-March with hundreds of pieces of work from students at Monte Del Sol.

On Feb. 12, Lannan Foundation hosted a reading at The Lensic Performing Arts Center with short story author and “genius grant” winner George Saunders (Tenth of December, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia) followed by a Q&A, conducted New York Times Deputy Editor Joel Lovell. With animated voice and comedic timing, Saunders’ reading of “Victory Lap” demonstrated his quirky yet humanizing styles, while the conversation that followed brought out the perks and surprises of the author’s past. “I think is was one of the best Lannan evenings that I’ve seen,” says Creative Writing Department Co-Chair Matt Donovan. “The conversations in those types of events aren’t always focused on elements of craft and I really appreciated the ways in which they made it accessible.” Rather than didactic responses, for example, Saunders provided Lovell, who is a previous acquaintance, with entertaining and lax conversation. Donovan describes also an appreciation of the writer’s reading performance. A talented use of vocals, especially when changing from the POV of a little girl practicing ballet to a middle aged raper, kept the audience members on the edge of their seats, while Saunders’ witty pacing took the edge off of an otherwise dark story. Laugh. Gape. Laugh more. Stare in utter shock. Laugh. “He was entertaining, he was funny, he was poignant and he called me a badass,” says R.A. Ademulegun, Creative Writing student, who waited for Saunders’ autograph after the reading. “He gave me great pointers. You know, ‘a table is a table,’” Ademulegun says, quoting Saunders from his Q&A when he expressed an impatience for flowery language. “We’re always trying to impress people with our work,” Ademulegun concludes. “Our readers are just ordinary people.” Following the reading, Lovell, who wrote a cover story on Tenth of December for The New York Times,...

Billie Michael is a 17-year-old Studio Arts student from Pennsylvania. Her art combines sweet cinematic images with a gory twist. Jackalope Magazine asked the artist a few questions in order to discover more about her.

What? We have a horse club? You actually ride real horses, you don’t just talk about them? Those are the questions that Andi Star, Horse Club president, usually hears when she tells students about her club.

Although it is not yet as popular as it is in Europe, Parkour is really starting to make its way in the US. Here at SFUAD, we already have a couple of traceurs (runners) who take advantage of the campus surroundings to practice this non-competitive sport.

Dweezil Zappa, son of the legendary Frank Zappa, performed at the Greer Garson Theatre this Feb. 12 in front of a sold-out crowd.

This week’s attractions at The Screen include the much-anticipated 2014 Oscar-nominated short films.

Students cavort at the annual Date Auction.

The student band that calls themselves The Laser Cats is made up of four SFUAD Contemporary Music majors. Daniel Mench-Thurlow plays the upright bass, Kyle Driscoll plays the guitar, Matt Ruder also plays guitar, Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose plays the banjo and Konor Hunter-Crump plays the violin. Jackalope Magazine had the opportunity to talk to the band members about their music.   Jackalope Magazine: How did you get into music? Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose: My family is in a bluegrass band, all of my uncles and most of my cousins, which is 20 or 30 musicians total. We’ve always been playing bluegrass and my uncle plays banjo, so I picked one up.   JM: How did your band get together? Matt Ruder: Well, when we were freshman Sam got asked to provide music for a creative writing thing so he asked me and Kyle to help him out. It was just going to be for that one time. We needed a name, and Kyle was wearing a shirt with a cat shooting lasers from its eyes, so we said we’d call ourselves the Acoustic Laser Cat Jazz Trio. But then we added Konor and changed it to just The Laser Cats and about a year later added Dan.   JM: What are the best and worst things about being in a band? MR: The best part is that it feels like family. You can be friends with someone but it just becomes deeper when you’re in a band with them. Kyle Driscoll: The only bad thing I would say is that sometimes it’s time consuming and that we all want to do The Laser Cats plus so many other things.   JM: What type of band are you? MR: Gypsy Jazz, which all started back with the gypsies...

Aural historian Jack Loeffler discusses the influences that drew him to recording and storytelling.

This week, Awkward Shelby takes on Valentine’s Day! The weekly Awkward Shelby Comic is created by SFUAD studio art major Shelby Criswel. For more of Criswell’s work, check out the Awkward Shelby Comic series and...

“We live through the predicate of screens,” Director Godfrey Reggio says. “They’re inescapable. They’ve become necessary to life.”

Charlotte Martinez provides a weekly preview of the films playing at The Screen.