Welcome to Video Game Club. The first rule of Video Game Club is…
Zaynah AkeelStaff Writer Patrons of Strange Matter on Sunday afternoon may have noticed the looming group of people lining the walls of the back hallway, where the arcade games are located. The Video Game Club of VCU held the VA Fighting Game Monthly Tournament, where gamers competed in Super Street Fighter IV for a monetary […]
Starke House provides haven for opinionated art
Zaynah Akeel Staff Writer This past Thursday, VCU’s Women’s Studies Department held an opening reception for their fall art show. Art majors, Gender, Sexuality, Women’s Studies majors and other students and community members enjoyed art primarily by VCU undergraduate students, some of whom were not art students. Each semester, a new show is opened, and […]
Def Poets Society: Richmond poetry scene’s VCU hub
Zaynah Akeel Staff Writer Fans and writers of poetry might have noticed a lack of outlets for their work and passion on the VCU campus, unless they have happened upon the Def Poets Society. Sarah Rodriguez and Brandon Basile co-founded Def Poets after trying to find an outlet for their own love of poetry. Inspired […]
Film review: For Scott Pilgrim, all the world’s a game
Film review: For Scott Pilgrim, all the world’s a game Zaynah Akeel Contributing writer Seeing the commercial for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) and released on August 13, one might have assumed we’d already seen all the good parts. Incredibly, this is completely false. Scott […]
Gallery5 series a study in extemporaneous movie scoring
Zaynah Akeel Contributing writer Gallery5 and A Silent Music Revival presented The Adventures of Prince Achmed with Dave Watkins this past Sunday, August 29 – the latest entry in a monthly silent film screening accompanied by a musician who has never seen the film. The premise is intriguing, and Sunday’s result was brilliant. Before the […]