Nov 15, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Features
by Saie Kim ~ “… Now all I have left is this stupid piece of paper and this stupid made-up adventure about killing a stupid made-up dragon.” – Agnes Evans, She Kills Monsters The “stupid made-up adventure” Agnes refers to is the fantasy role-playing game...
Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Events, Features, Interviews
by Emma Nichols ~ Ever read For Whom the Bell Tolls or The Old Man and The Sea for your English class? Even if you haven’t, you’ve likely heard the name of the author, one of the most famous writers of all time—Ernest Hemingway. What you may be surprised to learn is...
Nov 1, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Features
By Sophie Stein~ “My son is really into birds. Like, really into birds.” Maxwell sat with her legs crossed behind the small table at the front of Beth Parfitt’s Intro to Creative Writing class at Penn State. “He wanted me to write a story for him, and it ended up...
Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Events, Features, Music
Grapefruit Cannonball and TV Dinners–two Klio featured music groups–competed in Penn State’s 2019 Battle of the Bands last weekend! From the Daily Collegian: “On March 30, Movin’ On will hold its annual “Battle,” with local bands competing for...
Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Entertainment, Features
By Christy McDermott~ The arts are for everyone, regardless of gender, age, or ethnicity. Throughout history, however, the most celebrated artists have often been male, from Shakespeare and Hemingway, to DaVinci and Van Gogh. Thankfully, in 2018, the art world has...
Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, Entertainment, Features
By Tiffany Fu ~ Artists are creators. I’d like to think that each and every one of us are artists of some kind—engineers, scientists, lawyers—the list goes on. We’re here to create a story for ourselves, from beginning to end. Therefore, we each possess the ability to...