Megan Wee
- Oct 14, 2018
This Is Childish Gambino
As soon as I looked down at the stage below me while Rae Sremmurd delivered a messy but high energy show opener, I noticed the chairs laid out in tidy rows, reminiscent of a Sunday mass. Childish Gambino made his DC stop on the 19th of September at the Capitol One Arena. Gambino later said to the crowd, “This is not a concert… this is church” – confirming what seemed visually obvious, but it struck me nonetheless. This is America is Donald Glover’s last tour under the Childis
Jackson Foran
- Oct 11, 2018
The Solution to World Hunger: How to Steal Food from Leo's
In today’s society, everyone is so caught up in this political scandal or that celebrity affair. Political leaders use the ideals and aspirations of everyday citizens to advance their own agendas. Big businesses ignore real issues in order to reach their profit margins, exploiting their workers in the process. All the while, mainstream media forces our eyes towards petty squabbles and unintelligible blabber, leaving us blind to the real issue: hunger. In 2016 the United Natio
Brian Damerau
- Oct 10, 2018
Discussing DIY with Taciturn
From left to right: Kevin Ralph, Natasha Janfaza, and Nyle Hamidi. Taciturn has turned many heads with their loud sets that toe the line between jam and drone. However, the loudness isn’t mindless; each tone feels as curated as the songs themselves. With one EP out and an LP on the way, Taciturn has already escaped the trappings of genre. Their noisy rock is tinged with shoegazing tendencies and the hardcore punk that indulged D.C. only a few decades ago. Since their concepti
Connor Rush
- Oct 10, 2018
A Conversation with A24
Kayla (Elsie Fisher) in Eighth Grade. This semester, the independent film studio A24 is partnering with Georgetown University through an on-campus intern. You may know the young film studio from its acclaimed films Lady Bird, Moonlight, Ex Machina, and this past summer’s horror hit, Hereditary, or for being your favorite film nerd’s favorite film studio. I sat down with Diana Chiang, a senior here on the Hilltop, to discuss the program they’re running on campus, what this mea
Ben Barrett
- Oct 10, 2018
Regional Music
Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, open since 1907, is unofficially the oldest jazz club in America and can be found in Uptown, Chicago. Where is the Midwest? Are the Dakotas part of it? What about Kansas? These questions might belie another, broader question: how do we decide what is or is not “Midwestern?” Ever since Muddy Waters’ trek north to Chicago marked the birth of rock and roll out of Mississippi Delta blues, musicians from Mavis Staples to the White Stripes have been spre
Austin Stollhaus
- Oct 10, 2018
Babylon Berlin & Nazism
Vice Detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) in Babylon Berlin. The first season of Babylon Berlin follows a detective’s struggle to navigate the political landscape of 1929 Germany, a country torn apart by shell-shock, communist uprising, and a decaying republic. The villains of the first season are all Russian agitators, but characters can be overheard whispering about a new threat. “These people aren’t like the others,” the councillor’s aide mutters to him. “They hate the rep
Kian Blewett
- Oct 10, 2018
An Unfinished Letter
Back cover of EALL. After putting in steady work for years out of East Atlanta, often with the likes of Spillage Village and other underground ATL rappers, 6lack (pronounced “black”) burst onto the national scene with his Grammy-nominated album Free 6lack in 2016. Tracks off this debut album like “PRBLMS” and “Ex Calling” blew up, each now having been streamed hundreds of millions of times. When 6lack announced his second studio album in August, dubbed East Atlanta Love Lette
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