25 Oct 2016
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By JON AGUIRRE Staff Writer @TheEtCetera “Woptober” is the newest album from rapper-turned-meme Guwop, also known as Gucci Mane. The man doesn’t need an introduction, and he’s probably the most popular artist I’ve ever reviewed. Ironically, this is the worst album I’ve ever reviewed. In...
Read more → 25 Oct 2016
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By CAT DYSON Reporter @TheEtCetera “Keeping Up With The Joneses” doesn’t start out like any other comedy involving spies, but a house exploding in the first scene might give that away. Director Greg Mottola fabricates an uplifting comedy with hilariously awkward moments and action scenes...
Read more → 13 Oct 2016
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By LANDON WILLIAMS @TheEtCetera As a band grows in experience, their sound tends to grow with them. If you study the history of any band, you can see a drastic difference between their first and latest albums. There is a constant debate among listeners about whether these changes are an improvement...
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By RODRIGO MENDOZA Reporter @TheEtCetera Guest director Akin Babatunde — an actor and writer who teaches theater and humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas and Mountain View College — will be leading the Eastfield Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s...
Read more → 12 Oct 2016
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By JON AGUIRRE Staff Writer @TheEtCetera When you listen to the very first track of “Atrocity Exhibition,” you become aware that this isn’t your average hip-hop album. You realize you’re about to embark on a journey, a ride full of terror, pain and hilarity through the mind of Danny Brown. Brown...
Read more → 03 Oct 2016
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By JON AGUIRRE @TheEtCetera When you think of experimental music, you may think it has to be weird, inaccessible or unpleasant. But experimental hip-hop trio clipping shows that innovation in music can be enjoyable and accessible. Clipping. has mostly been categorized as “noise rap,” a genre...
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By MACKS PREWITT @TheEtCetera The smell of coffee, jazz playing softly in the background, a purple door and books galore. This place isn’t in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco, but right here in Dallas at Serj Books, a bookstore and café that sells products made by Texas-based companies. I...
Read more → 29 Sep 2016
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By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC Editor’s Note: Includes season one spoilers. How do you kill Pablo Escobar? Don’t ask anyone in season one of the critically acclaimed Netflix original series “Narcos.” They’ve all tried and failed. Local police officers, drug enforcement agents and other...
Read more → 29 Sep 2016
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By KEVIN ORELLANA Reporter @TheEtCetera It’s been some time since I’ve watched, much less enjoyed, a Tim Burton film. Faced with the task of keeping my eyes in their respective sockets during a screening of Burton’s latest vision of spirals, white make up and sunken eyes in “Miss...
Read more → 29 Sep 2016
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By RODRIGO MENDOZA @TheEtCetera Pittsburgh native Mac Miller has had a lot of hit songs including “Donald Trump” and his 2013 duet “That Way” with his now-girlfriend Ariana Grande. Miller’s last few albums have not done very well commercially or critically, but I think that when the couple...
Read more → 20 Sep 2016
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By RODRIGO MENDOZA @TheEtCetera Rebecca Skloot’s debut nonfiction book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” is this year’s common book, a literary work integrated into classes and activities throughout the academic year. The common book experience is designed to encourage the college...
Read more → 19 Sep 2016
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By JON AGUIRRE @TheEtCetera The annual Eastfield faculty art show gives students a glimpse of their art professors’ abilities. But for the past two years, professors have invited guest artists to share exhibit space for the “In Good Company” show. The show opened Aug. 29, and many students...
Read more → 16 Sep 2016
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Iris Bechtol sharpens her craft of sculpting, painting, photography and teaching by pushing herself and others to step outside of their comfort zone By MAYRA ROSALES-MONTOYA @TheEtCetera Iris Bechtol walks among the artwork in Gallery 219, viewing a show she curated from the best of student artwork....
Read more → 15 Sep 2016
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Alejandra Rosas/The Et Cetera The Dallas Arboretum is featuring pumpkins as a part of its fall festivities. It’s technically still summer and certainly feels it, but the promise of cooler temperatures and pumpkins spice everything looms on the horizon. Celebrate the season of falling...
Read more → 10 Sep 2016
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By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC This actor starred in “Young Frankenstein,” “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” (the real one, not that Tim Burton remake), “Blazing Saddles” and “The Producers,” and his impact on culture and comedy was immeasurable. Doesn’t ring a bell?...
Read more → 10 Sep 2016
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By Macks Prewitt @TheEtCetera John Krasinski stars in and directs “The Hollars,” a humorous family drama that follows struggling cartoonist John Hollar (Krasinski) living in New York City with his pregnant girlfriend Rebecca (Anna Kendrick). When his mother (Margo Martindale) suffers a stroke,...
Read more → 09 Sep 2016
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By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC The late Gene Wilder’s portrayal of Willy Wonka in the 1971 film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” is seen as his career-defining performance. Countless warm childhood memories can be credited to Wilder and the quirky, boundless world that is Wonka’s factory. Many...
Read more → 09 Sep 2016
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By CAITLIN PIPER @CaitlinPiperETC Capcom has been drawing a lot of ire lately for its unabashedly greedy business practices, stacking downloadable content on downloadable content when they aren’t repackaging their old classics for any starry-eyed fan looking to relive their 32-bit glory days,...
Read more → 09 Sep 2016
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By JAMES HARTLEY @JamesHartleyETC California post-hardcore quintet Of Mice & Men, one of the most culturally influential bands in the scene today, pushes their angsty, progressive sound to the next level in their latest album “Cold World.” While other bands would find it near-impossible...
Read more → 29 Aug 2016
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The Et Cetera held an Instagram photo shootout in April and asked students, faculty and staff to submit shots that represented their “Eastfield Experience.” Submissions covered a variety of people and places on campus. First place winners were Early College student Isabel Espinoza in the student...
Read more → 29 Aug 2016
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College can be tough, especially when you have to juggle it with the demands of everyday life. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were something to make it a little easier? Well there is, and it fits in your pocket. With tons of apps to help you through school, your smartphone can become your new best friend....
Read more → 29 Aug 2016
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Eastfield students and staff explore campus, try to 'catch 'em all' By BRIANNA HARMON @BHarmonETC The “Pokemon Go” craze has come to Eastfield College, and with four Pokestops and one full-fledged Pokemon gym on campus, you don’t have to go far to “catch ‘em all.” The latest in the “Pokemon”...
Read more → 29 Aug 2016
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By WINSTON EASY @theetcetera “Hands of Stone,” directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, is another good addition to the boxing film genre. Telling the story of Roberto Duran, known as one of the greatest boxers of all time originating from Guarare, Panama, the film is full of Panamanian culture and shows...
Read more → 29 Aug 2016
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By JASMINE OLIVA @theetcetera As you walk the halls of campus buildings, art surrounds you. Paintings, drawings, photos, mixed media, textiles and sculptures decorate walls, display cases and corners. Over the years, the campus galleries have hosted professional artists and art students. But the college’s...
Read more → 29 Aug 2016
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By DAVID SILVA @DavidSilvaETC Director Fede Alvarez takes audiences on a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in his new horror-thriller “Don’t Breathe.” Alvarez, director of the 2013 “Evil Dead” remake, scales back the blood, gore and shock horror that characterized his breakthrough film by delivering...
Read more → 01 Jul 2016
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By Jeremy Christian “Free State of Jones” is an action-drama that tells the true story of an unlikely, little-known episode in American history: A gang of poor white farmers and runaway slaves band together to rebel against the Confederacy during the later stages of the Civil War. The...
Read more → 17 Jun 2016
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By James Hartley Just keep swimming and don’t give up on Dory, even if she does have a tendency to forget important things throughout her “Finding Nemo” sequel, “Finding Dory.” Shortly after returning home from their adventure to save clownfish Marlon’s (Albert Brooks) son, Nemo...
Read more → 06 May 2016
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By James Hartley A tea trend has been brewing in America, and it’s not the traditional Southern iced tea. Steeped in thousands of years of history and practice, tea is becoming an increasingly popular beverage in the United States. Americans consumed 80 billion servings of tea last year, according...
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