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Column: Writers grapple with digital fame

Column: Writers grapple with digital fame

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
May 5, 2022
Column: Book banning's harmful return

Column: Book banning’s harmful return

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
April 7, 2022
Luxury Station produces a variety of content for over 2,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Students create an analog horror YouTube show

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
April 7, 2022
Super Hearts Day Nerf War took place from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 12 and was the Human vs. Zombies Social Club’s first event of the semester.

IC students duke it out at the Super Hearts Day Nerf War

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
February 24, 2022
Climate movies address issues

Climate movies address issues

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
February 24, 2022
The Ithacan Life & Culture staff highlighted some films and music released between late 2021 and early 2022.

Mini movie reviews for December 2021-January 2022

By Avery Alexander, Elijah de Castro, Evan Miller, Maddy Martin, Matt Minton, Matt Surridge, and Mike Ross
January 30, 2022
From left, Miriam Maistelman, Mary McKean, Paul Corsi and Lizz Eberhardt have volunteered and worked at state and national parks across America.

IC students and alumni work at America’s state and national parks

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
November 17, 2021
Column: Romance literature takes over bestsellers lists

Column: Romance literature takes over bestsellers lists

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
November 9, 2021
Jason Hamilton, a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences tends to a beehive at Bee Fest., which took place Oct. 10.

IC apiary hosts Bee Fest for Ithaca community

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
October 20, 2021
Column: Strong female characters are often not well-written

Column: Strong female characters are often not well-written

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
October 6, 2021
Column: James Patterson reigns king of commercialized literature

Column: James Patterson reigns king of commercialized literature

By Maddy Martin, Senior Writer
September 21, 2021
Fans of the book will be pleased to see that the Netflix series is a true adaptation of the books, without a plot point out of place.

Review: Book adaptation keeps the magic

By Maddy Martin, Life and Culture Editor
April 27, 2021
"Good Girls Don't Tell," is a documentary that tells the stories of non-reporting sexual assault survivors. It is directed by Jen Huemmer, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication.

Professor directs documentary for sexual assault awareness

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture editor
April 21, 2021
“The Bitter Truth” is a nostalgia trip for Evanescence fans but perhaps a little too much of one. It’s not inadequate. It’s just stale. 

Review: Early 2000s band is back and sounds the exact same

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture editor
April 8, 2021
Raza Rumi, journalist and director of the Park Center for Independent Media, was featured in the March 16 reading.

Local writers honor their journeys with reading series

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture editor
March 17, 2021
Christina Zawerucha and Tom Egan perform the song "Red Clay Halo" for the Songs for Change virtual concert Feb. 28.

Virtual concert series raises money for social change

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture editor
March 9, 2021
The Ithacan’s Life & Culture section has compiled a list of stories, terms and traditions that students should know about the college’s culture as they settle into campus life.

The abbreviated encyclopedia of Ithaca College student culture

By Antonio Ferme, Arleigh Rodgers, Avery Alexander, and Maddy Martin
February 25, 2021
Some Ithaca College students spend hours practicing their instruments, working out and rehearsing routines so they can be in top shape for the competitive world of Drum Corps International (DCI).

A drum roll for Marching Music’s Major League

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture editor
February 18, 2021
Christine Kitano, assistant professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College, has been named the Poet Laureate of Tompkins County.

Writing professor appointed as poet laureate

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture Editor
February 9, 2021
Netflix’s “Fate: The Winx Saga” is a new, gritty live-action adaptation of “Winx Club,” but instead of whimsical magic, viewers are confronted with drugs, murder and steamy romance

Review: Magic teen drama lacks imagination

By Maddy Martin, Life & Culture Editor
February 2, 2021
F2F: Feminist to Feminist, Faculty to Faculty is a conversation co-sponsored by the Ithaca College Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. The next event will be held Nov. 18 and will feature Jennifer Jolly, professor in the Department of Art History, interviewing Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, assistant professor in the Department of Art, pictured above.

Conversation series highlights feminist faculty research

By Maddy Martin, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
November 17, 2020
On Oct. 9, Smino, real name Christopher Smith Jr., headlined Ithaca College Bureau of Concerts’ Fall 2020 virtual concert. Smino was originally planned to perform in the Athletics and Events Center in April, but the concert was postponed when classes went online in March.

IC Bureau of Concerts hosts virtual concert with rapper Smino

By Maddy Martin, Assistant Life & Culture editor
October 13, 2020
As lovers of art and pop culture, the Life & Culture section wishes to highlight Black creators whose intentions were not solely to inform. Creative work can often have just as much of an impact on those wishing to diversify their media consumption.

Spotlight on films, TV, books and music by Black creators

By Antonio Ferme, Arleigh Rodgers, Avery Alexander, Dariene Seifert, Eva Salzman, Frankie Walls, Liam Conway, Lucas Jafet, and Maddy Martin
September 20, 2020
Five Ithaca-based museums, including Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, have developed plans around New York state’s guidelines for museum reopenings. The Museum of the Earth adapted its temporary exhibit "Bees! Diversity, Evolution, Conservation" into a virtual experience in light of the COIVD-19 pandemic.

Ithaca museums curate reopening plans during pandemic

By Eva Salzman and Maddy Martin
September 18, 2020
In July, Chloe Landau ’20 compiled links to all of the fan fictions about Ithaca College that she could find. Her results — popular on Twitter — included fan fictions about “Twilight,” like “The Good Doctor” by Fanfiction.net user MeilleurCafe, in which Bella Swan and Edward Cullen go on a date at Moosewood Restaurant.

Student compiles spreadsheet of Ithaca College fan fiction

By Maddy Martin, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
September 9, 2020
In "Midnight Sun," a "Twilight" saga novel from Edward Cullen's perspective, author Stephenie Meyer only solidifies Edward's predatory behavior.

Review: ‘Twilight’ novel offers nothing new to saga

By Maddy Martin, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
August 30, 2020
Nicholas Robinson, a Black hip-hop artist known as Overflow, performed July 10 at a virtual benefit concert for Black Lives Matter Ithaca, hosted by Ithaca College Bureau of Concerts and Ithaca Underground. Attendees raised $500 throughout the course of the concert, which was streamed on Twitch.

Ithaca musicians rock out for Black Lives Matter benefit concert

By Maddy Martin, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
July 18, 2020
"The Hunger Games" series made ripples in Young Adult fiction by creating a complex and intriguing dystopian world with a strong female protagonist at its front. Ten years after the trilogy's conclusion, author Suzanne Collins dives into the perspective of President Coriolanus Snow, the villain from the original series.

Review: Prequel builds on “Hunger Games” gruesome history

By Maddy Martin, Assistant Life & Culture editor
June 17, 2020
Every year, The Ithacan produces a magazine called Year in Review that highlights stories and photographs that defined the academic year. Under unconventional circumstances, the magazine was finished away from campus and will be physically distributed on campus in October.

Year in Review offers closure for seniors

By Maddy Martin
June 7, 2020
Lucy Garrison-Clauson, co-owner of Stick and Stone Farm, assists a customer at the winter farmers market’s new location in Triphammer Marketplace Jan. 18.

Ithaca Farmers Market moves to Triphammer Marketplace

By Maddy Martin
January 22, 2020
Some of the brightest attractions at the first Winter Lights Festival will be luminescent prisms that glow with colorful light. The festival will begin on Dec. 5 and end on Dec. 15 and also feature a chowder cook-off and an art bike parade.

New Winter Lights Festival will illuminate The Commons

By Maddy Martin
December 4, 2019
Assistant professor Lali Khalid’s photo exhibition is being displayed in the Roy H. Park School of Communications’ gallery until Jan. 7. There are 17 photos in the exhibition.

Exhibit reflects professor’s relationship with culture

By Maddy Martin
November 20, 2019
Buzzsaw Magazine, Ithaca College's student-run magazine publication celebrated it's 20th anniversary with events organized by alumni.

Buzzsaw alumni organize events to celebrate anniversary

By Maddy Martin
October 31, 2019
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