All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
The Best Cracker Crust and Roof Cheese
St. Louis is known for a few things: being the best baseball town (GO CARDS!), toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, oh and St. Louis style pizza, also known as cracker crust with roof cheese to those who haven’t grown up around it. Cracker crust with roof cheese, why that name you ask? Of course, we [...]
Run Away From “The Rum Diary”
Thinking of seeing the new Johnny Depp movie? The trailers and previews that have appeared on television make “The Rum Diary” out to be a hilarious movie. Well, if you have watched those trailers or seen those commercials, you don’t have to go spend over $10 to see the entire film. Every funny or comical [...]
Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
Set during the scandalous Elizabethan England, “Anonymous” proposes that Shakespeare wasn’t the true author of all those plays and sonnets, and the true author was, in fact, just another man. When people doubt Shakespeare, they usually doubt that one man could have written thirty-seven famous plays and countless poems. The movie takes a different approach, [...]
Angst, Envy and Annoyance: The Cardinals’ 11th Championship Through the Eyes of a Cubs Fan
As a lifelong Chicagoan, at least as it pertains to most of my sports allegiances, this past week was not a particularly memorable one. It was painful enough to watch the Green Bay Packers hoist another Super Bowl trophy last February after knocking the Bears, but NOW my sports pain threshold has been raised to a [...]
Eight-Week Classes and Eight Reasons NOT to Take Them
“For next week please read chapters 1-11.” That is what my professor told me on the very first night of my first eight-week class at Maryville. “Eleven chapters,” I thought. “How is this possible? Does my professor not know that I am taking 15 other hours? Does my professor not know that I have a [...]
Internships…Are They Really Worth It?
Yes. Are they hard to find? Yes. Are they easy? No. You’re probably thinking, “Why the heck would I want to do one then?!” Because an internship is how you’ll find a job when you graduate. The job market is really tough right now, especially for recent college graduates with no real work experience. Internships [...]
Dating 101: That Dirty Cap
What is it about guys and their caps? Smelly, old, bent out of shape and wherever he goes, the trusty headdress shall follow. John Deere has had its share of rainy mornings, windy afternoons and precipitating evenings, yet, it still happens to find its way to the closet, stench and all. And cleaning it is [...]
The Post-9/11 America
Every American knows where they were or what they were doing when they heard the news that American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 flew into The World Trade Center. Along with each of our own personal accounts, those we lost and the men and women who sacrificed their lives that day will [...]
Maryville Reads 2011: Girl in Translation
This year’s selection for Maryville Reads, Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a young girl, Kimberly Chang, and her immigration from Hong Kong to Brooklyn. She and her mother face constant setbacks, living in a condemned, roach-ridden apartment, wearing clothes patched from scraps of material, working in a sweatshop, and [...]
A 360 Review
If you haven’t heard about the newest hot spot in St. Louis, it is time you took a drive downtown and checked out the 360 rooftop bar. The bar completely overlooks downtown St. Louis and Busch Stadium as well for all you Cardinal lovers. The rooftop bar advertises itself as “Sip, See, Savor” which is [...]
