Category: Culture
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Gauley Fest: Whitewater’s Biggest Party
For 45 weeks out of the year, the Gauley River runs as most of its cousins in the eastern United States do: as a mere trickle compared to its natural flow, impounded by the dams and weirs that resulted from the country’s insatiable thirst for economic growth, drinking water, and electricity. But for seven weekends…
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Club Chalamet Is “Ma”
By Hannah G “I’m Simone. This is a GenX LA-based super fan account in support of Oscar-nominated actor, Timothée Chalamet”. Seemingly innocent enough, this is the Instagram bio of 57-year-old Simone, a professional movie reviewer in Los Angeles, California. To the ignorant, though a little silly, this account, @clubchalamet at first comes off as endearing.…
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B-Boys and Buckeyes: Dr. Jason Rawls’ Journey From Hip-Hop to TEDxOSU
By Brie Blevins It is July 1988 and a group of young boys were sitting around a boombox on the south side of Columbus listening to an emerging genre: hip-hop. A song began with a drumbeat over an electronic bass line being updated with turntable scratching and talk box ad-libs. The song, “You Gots To…