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New Food Cravings
  • Santa Fe
Apr03

New Food Cravings

posted by Whitney Wernick

New food cravings? Check out these five restaurants, all within a mile of campus, where you can eat a meal for under $10!

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Spring Awakening Review
  • Performing Arts
May03

Spring Awakening Review

posted by Sara Malinowski

Spring Awakening was poignant in its use of dance. Uniquely within this staging, Assistant Chair and Director of Dance Shannon Elliot, along with faculty member Jonathan Guise, dance on the side-extensions of the set, enhancing the meaning of multiple songs.

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Character Counts
  • Performing Arts
  • Reviews
Nov21

Character Counts

posted by Nick Martinez

The real joy in Our Lady of 121st Street is taking a peek into these awful people and their regret-filled lives. Even the successful characters are melancholic and searching for hope.

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All ‘Bad’ Things Must End
  • Reviews
Oct03

All ‘Bad’ Things Must End

posted by Nick Martinez

“Guess I got what I deserved,” sang Pete Ham from Badfinger’s 1971 single “Baby Blue,” over Breaking Bad’s final moments. And despite Walter White’s final string of mini-victories, his death was the only proper conclusion. “Felina” opens back in New Hampshire with Walt trying to steal a parked car. Police lights shine from behind and for the first time in memory Walt prays for the chance to get back to the ABQ. The police leave and through divine intervention the car keys slip from the visor. Walt starts the car, Marty Robbins’s “El Paso” blares from the stereo, and for the last time, audiences hear the opening theme. Fans were worried leading up to the finale, having felt wronged by show-runners before (Damon Lindelof’s Lost, David Chase’s The Sopranos), but having seen the episode twice now, I feel that there is only one word to describe Breaking Bad’s finale: perfect. Vince Gilligan, and his team of merry writers, were able to produce a finale that was both thematically and structurally pleasing. Some have argued that storylines were wrapped up too neatly, but I would argue in the age of cut to blacks, and lumberjacks, true closure is refreshing. The standout moment of this episode has to be Walt’s scene with Skyler. Set in her new dingy apartment, Skyler tells Walt he has five minutes to talk. Walt gives Skyler the GPS coordinates that will lead the DEA to Hank and Gomez, hoping that the coordinates will be a good bargaining chip to get her off the hook. He also starts to tell her why he did what he did. “Stop, if I have to hear one more time that you did this for your family-” says Skyler. “I did it for me,” Walt says to a stunned Skyler. “I like it. I was good at it. And, I was really… I was alive.” One of Walt’s defining characteristics throughout the show was his inability to face the truth. To justify all of his actions, regardless of their moral depravity. But in the moment where he finally tells the truth, for Skyler, as well as the audience, there is relief. In no way was Walt redeemed; he’s caused so much pain and destruction to those around him to ever be redeemed, but it completes the tragic series of events. The hero finally recognized he was the villain. There was plenty of relief this episode for fans. Walt blackmails Gretchen and Elliot into leaving Walt’s $10 million into a trust for Jr.; with the help of Badger and Skinny Pete (“I don’t know, this all seems kind of shady, like, morality wise.”); Walt uses Chekov’s Ricin against the ever-deserving Lydia; Walt’s rigged M60 takes down Uncle Jack’s (Michael Bowen) entire Neo-Nazi crew; Jesse strangles Todd with his own chains; and Walt kills Uncle Jack in a masterfully similar way that Uncle Jack killed Hank in Ozymandias. Jesse’s refusal to shoot Walt in the end was a fitting conclusion to his arc. He finally refused to do Mr. White’s bidding. The final shot of his screaming and crying, blazing out of the Neo-Nazi compound, was the perfect mixture of happiness, shock, anger and relief. As a long time fan, I was happy that there was no trip to Belize. In the end, Breaking Bad is Walt’s story. His casual stroll through the Neo-Nazi meth lab, lovingly caressing his tools, while police sirens blared, was a fitting end to his life. He died with what he loved. I’m a fan of television. My throat dried as Stringer died, my heart skipped a beat when Tony cut to black. But, without a single doubt in my mind, Breaking Bad is the greatest television series of all...

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One More
  • Santa Fe
Sep26

One More

posted by Nick Martinez

Granite State, the penultimate episode of “Breaking Bad,” opens with Saul (Bob Odenkirk)—not Walt—entering the vacuum repair shop. The long discussed, never seen, vacuum repair man (Robert Forster!) tells Saul that while waiting for his trip to Nebraska, he’ll have a roommate. Queue Walt pacing in his bunker, finally alone with all he’s done. Now take that moment and add around four months in a snowy New Hampshire purgatory and we have the tired broken man who orders one last drink before the DEA arrives. The Walt we see for most of Granite State is a broken shell and the logical conclusion for the previous 57 hours of the show. For all of his brilliance, Walt is completely unable to acknowledge that it’s over. Before Saul leaves to go buy his three pairs of Dockers and assistant manage a Cinnabon, he gives Walt one last dose of reality: surrender. Skyler, in a nice nod to the pilot, is catatonic as the DEA illustrates the full situation. Walt’s faux confession last week was a nice gesture, but Skyler is in no way scott-free. With Walt at large, Skyler’s role in the situation still unclear, and two DEA agents missing, someone has to answer. So it falls to Skyler to be destitute, working part-time as a taxi dispatcher, and a social pariah as an alleged co-conspirator in an international meth empire. Matters only worsen when Albuquerque’s resident sociopath, Todd, makes an appearance in baby Holly’s nursery. For me, this was by far the most terrifying scene in “Breaking Bad” history. At any moment I was ready for Todd to kill both Skyler and Holly, to protect his crush Lydia (Laura Fraser). And how creepy is Todd’s infatuation with Lydia? One moment he’s threatening Skyler, and murdering...

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