The 2017 Oscars were filled with blunders, records, and tears. While no Oscars show has ever gone off without a hitch, this year was the worst recorded with two major snafus. The first, which has been all over the news, was the false declaration of La La Land as the winner of Best Picture, the…
Netflix has released a brand new Netflix Original Series which brings with it a lot of potential for disaster or redemption. The new interpretation of, A Series of Unfortunate Events, which recently arrived on Netflix was met with an initially mixed reaction. Many people considered the previous movie adaptation to be a terrible portrayal of…
The new movie, Hidden Figures, tells the true stories of three extraordinary female African American mathematicians working at NASA in the 1960s. The story primarily follows the lives of Katherine Goble Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan, who fought against great odds to achieve unprecedented opportunities of the time but were still mostly forgotten by…
On Friday, October 28th at 7pm, three campus organizations are getting together in Bunker Auditorium to put on an incredible performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. MAC, oSTEM and Mines’ Little Theater are joining together to present and perform with the Halloween classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The story of The Rocky Horror…
Mines’ Little Theater (MLT) is one of too few school supported creative groups on campus. A lot of people do not know what MLT is getting up to on a regular basis and that means that they are missing out on some exciting productions. This semester, MLT is working on two separate Fall plays that…
Friday, Oct. 7 saw two incredible performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre for the annual Jeep on the Rocks concert. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness opened for Bastille with one of the most enthusiastic performances of an artist playing the piano and dancing at the same time. All of Andrew McMahon’s songs were incredibly upbeat and…
Every Saturday, Golden residents and vendors from across Colorado gather together in the parking lot next to the Golden Library to enjoy the Golden Farmer’s Market. The Golden Farmer’s Market runs every year from the first Saturday in June until October 1st. Open from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., Golden residents and anyone else who…
Diversity in the arts is one thing that Mines is severely lacking. According to Orgsync, there are only 8, out of 201, clubs that that seem to be based in the arts, whether creative writing, drawing, acting, or knitting. This is a significantly smaller proportion than at most other schools. There is a misguided mindset…
The 88th Annual Academy Awards, or the Oscars, that aired on Sunday, Feb. 28, were a night filled with excitement, disappointment, and passionate causes. In the months before the Oscars aired, the hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite, became a popular topic for a number of celebrities and just the world in general, but another topic that came up…
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards were filled with excitement, jealousy and disappointment. Most of all they were filled with technical difficulties. Monday, February 15th saw countless stars waiting anxiously to hear if they won a Grammy. Between announcements, famous acts took the stage to perform. However, many of these performances were a let down to…