UH’s Student Feminist Organization has been meeting to promote gender equity, social justice and student success through weekly group discussions. In 2009, UH alumni Amanda Williams and Andrea Pratt founded SFO to inform and educate students about feminism. Their goal was to inspire members to abolish social...
On October 7th Netflix released a documentary, “13th” made by “Selma” director Ava DuVernay. On the surface, the film is about the 13th amendment, which states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United...
The dining halls at the University of Houston (Fresh Foods Company and Cougar Woods) seem to have a wide variety of reviews. Some people think that the dining halls are the bane of all creation, and this side would probably argue that the quality of food is low, they do not serve the needs of students who want to be...
For this “Reel Mood of the Week,” seek out three different kinds of encounters and see how the varying characters will handle them. “Arrival” As a wise wizard once said, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” When...
A first encounter of the most stellar kind. In a case of life imitating art, this is also the director’s first contact with the sci-fi genre. Yet, with the same level of expertise in cinematic storytelling as the main character in analyzing languages, Denis Villenueve has made a film so personal, stimulating...
As the nine or so hours of “The Hobbit” trilogy, every adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” WWZ (starring Brad Pitt) and “Cat in the Hat” (starring nightmares) show—turning a book into a film is an unfathomably difficult task that can go horribly wrong, no matter how many dollars are thrown at it. Here’s a list of the...
Houston’s animal shelters are reporting a huge increase in abandoned animals and they can’t hold them for long. This means a lot of them will have to be put down, something most people don’t like. The different animal shelters around the Houston area such as BARC and the Houston Humane Society are trying everything in...
Last week, I had the privilege of meeting New York Times best-selling author, Jay Asher. His first major novel, “Thirteen Reasons Why,” resonated with me when I first read it in eighth grade. I remember my friends and I devouring this book like candy as Asher told his tale about Hannah Baker struggling to be the new...
The inability to accept death is a trope that leads many villains down their dark path, providing storylines for a multitude of films and novels. “Doctor Strange,” the fourteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, takes a series that has featured aliens, talking bionic raccoons and Hulks and adds in a mystic...
Four different productions will come to theaters this weekend to demonstrate that it takes a battle to build upon who you really are. “Doctor Strange” No, “Guardians of the Galaxy” isn’t the weirdest production that Marvel has for the world. When a car accident mangled the hands of surgeon Stephen Strange (Benedict...
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