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Friday, December 5, 2025

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Now It's Crunch Time for Claire and the Cult in 'The Following'

Episode 13, of "The Following," titled "Havenport," was a simple yet not intricate title. We can keep it as a title, I guess. This week was all right, so I will give it a B. Brief summary: the episode was made up of some surprising moves from key characters as well as an unexpected body count. The episode ...


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Fall Out Boy Just Saves Themselves with their New CD

It’s the return of our favorite eyeliner-filled band, Fall Out Boy, with their new album “Save Rock and Roll.” This 11-track album brings together an interesting mix of featuring artists that will initially cause listeners to question the legitimacy of its title. The band has just brought itself ...


WMLU Delivers Epic 20th Anniversary Bandfest
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WMLU Delivers Epic 20th Anniversary Bandfest

Every spring, Longwood University plays host to bands from all over the country. In the case of this year, there were even bands who have toured overseas that were present during WMLU’s 20th anniversary Bandfest. Jason Tsai, a senior English major and member of WMLU, said the whole committee was a ...



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A Celebrity God Complex?: Not As Bad As You Think

It seems more and more celebrities have started to develop this strange God Complex. Thinking they are better than everyone else in the world, it seems. They think they can get away with pretty much anything just because they have this podium of power. How is that even close to the qualities that ...


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Slavery, a Wedding and a Haunting This Week on DVD

“Save the Date” Two completely different half-sisters have not-so- different love lives: they’re both complicated. The differences? While Beth is happy and ready to get married as she plans her wedding to her fiancé, her sister Sarah rejects her own boyfriend after his hasty proposal and decides ...




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Poetry Corner: To Dream the Earth Away

There is a world where water floats miles above everything else and sometimes when that water loses grip upon horizon it slips and falls down, racing its way to tops of heads and sidewalks, crags. There is a world where hairs of every color, texture, thickness, taste sprout from the ground itself and ...



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He did What with Who? – This Week’s ‘The Following’

So, a woman with a psychotic serial killer for a husband tries to escape her ex-husband’s creepy cult mansion with her son in hand by running toward the front gate. I repeat, Claire Matthew’s (Natalie Zea) brilliant escape plan is to run to the front gate of her husbands’ cult plantation? The ...


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Singing a Sweet Song Will Free The Convicted in 'Grimm'

“He sang a sweet song in tones so full and soft that no human ear could resist them, nor fathom their origin.” This is the quote from the Grimm brothers that opens this exciting new episode of the hit TV show “Grimm.” Instead of introducing a new kind of Wesen, this episode deals with two that ...


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Disney Changing The Game, Literally

Disney, Lucasfilm, "Star Wars," merger. Everyone pretty much heard last October that The Walt Disney COmpany was planning to buy Lucasfilm from George Lucas. Turns out the deal did go through in early October and that Disney would hand over $4.05 billion in stock and cash for the company. If Lucasfilm ...


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Horror Gets Sophisticated on ‘Hannibal’

There are a lot of people out there who love horror, but gratuitous, in-your-face blood and guts courtesy of a deranged ax-murderer isn’t quite their cup of tea. Rather than slasher films, they’re going to go with something with a bit more plot and sophistication, something more along the lines ...


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Phi Mu Alpha Hosts Scottish Singer, Thrills Audiences

On Thursday, April 4, in the Molnar Recital Hall inside Wygal, The Chamber Music Series closed off with Julie Fowlis, a Scottish folk singer. She sings primarily in Gaelic but is known to have a couple of songs in English as well. Even though many people are not too familiar with the name, she is kind ...


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Spring Semester? Nope, Stress Semester

Second half of spring semester. While it seems to be the part of the semester that goes by the fastest, has the most events, and even has the best weather — it is also possibly the most frustrating andtime-consuming semester of the school year. These past two weeks have been the busiest of my semester ...


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'The Following' Steps it up in Episode 11

Episode 11, “Whips and Regret”... Well, isn’t that a cheesy title? Either way, this episode proved to be much better than last week's episode. Jacob, as a character, is thriving. I know it’s sort of sick to say, but I think that killing Paul was the best thing that could have happened to him. ...


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Artist Jeremy Satterlund Exhibit to Be Shown at Gallery

Farmville’s own J. Fergeson Gallery has brought many a talented artist to town this year. The next artist to be featured will be Jeremy Satterlund, a local Virginian from Richmond who usually works from a studio in Fulton Hill. He received his degree in painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art ...


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‘Olympus Has Fallen’: A Mundane Political-Action Thriller

It has been a long time since Hollywood has made a political- action thriller that was this patriotic. It seems that since 9/11, many of the films about or featuring politics have centered on characters exposing some dark secrets about the government. Director Antoine Fuqua bucks that trend in favor ...



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Welcome To The New Age: Where Humanity is All But Extinct

Stephenie Meyer is once again being praised with the film adaption of her novel, “The Host.” If you think “The Host” is simply another “Twilight” but with aliens instead of vampires, you would be dead wrong. Director Andrew Niccol, known for his previous sci-fi movies, brings a new human ...