Mar 29, 2022 | Blog, Features
By Carmela Cocuzza, Managing Editor ~ As a freshman student at Penn State, I used to visit the Palmer Museum of Art on Curtain Road all the time. I’m a senior now, and when I heard about the relocation and expansion, I was mostly overjoyed and a little melancholy. The...
Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Entertainment
By Kate Irwin, Fiction Editor & Blog Editor ~ “When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.” I’ve always agreed with this quote from Kathleen Kelly, owner of a children’s bookstore in...
Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Interviews
By Marissa Cruz, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Co-Editor, University Park Outreach ~ In this interview, Marissa Cruz, co-coordinator of KLIO’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy initiative, sits down with Joshua B. Tuttle, a graduate student here at Penn State, to discuss fantasy...
Mar 18, 2022 | Blog, Flashback Friday
Our Flashback Friday picks this week are from Lauren Shovlin, our nonfiction coordinator and assistant blog editor. In her excitement to read the new nonfiction submissions this year, Lauren picked the nonfiction piece, It Is All In The Footnotes, by Austin Shay,...
Mar 17, 2022 | Blog, Interviews, Music
By Maggie Dickinson-Sherry, Music Editor & Kalliope Liaison ~ If you are at all involved in the State College live music scene, it is likely that you have heard of The Asylum. A student-run organization, Asylum Music Club is dedicated to organizing shows around...
Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, Features
By Charani Gauravaram, Art Coordinator ~ Located at the corner of Beaver and Pugh Streets in downtown State College, 3 Dots Downtown hosts a weekly event called Tuesday Defrost, a “weekly celebration of the smorgasbord of music, community, art and culture of...