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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Cherry Bomb’ explodes with current fans

Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Cherry Bomb’ explodes with current fans

By Nick Mullen / For The Pitt News May 5, 2015

Tyler, The CreatorCherry BombGrade: B- Tyler, The Creator is known for his notorious cockroach snack in the music video for his critically acclaimed debut single “Yonkers” in February 2011. As a...

Make art, not money: local artist challenges gender inequality

Make art, not money: local artist challenges gender inequality

For local artist Elana Schlenker, gender discrimination was just something that she read about in books. But when a graphic design company hired her, she found that she was the only woman designer.“We...

Smoke across the water: Pitt study abroad students adjust to weed culture shock

Smoke across the water: Pitt study abroad students adjust to weed culture shock

By Jack Trainor / Staff Writer April 20, 2015

When Kative Crivellaro smoked a joint last summer in Amsterdam, she was nervous. Not because marijuana is illegal in the United States, but because she “was desperately trying not to come off as an American...

Death of a stoner: Weed too tame for modern, adrenaline-junkie comedy

Death of a stoner: Weed too tame for modern, adrenaline-junkie comedy

By Shawn Cooke / A&E Editor April 20, 2015

Cocaine is the new weed, and blunts are the new cigarettes — on the silver screen at least.The stoner comedy has been a reliable subgenre for ages, man, but it could be on its last breath. We can’t...

Blazing through the ages: Cannabis prevalent on campus in ’70s

By Natalia Blewonska & Elaina Zachos / The Pitt News Staff April 20, 2015

When you look out over the Cathedral lawn, you see students sprawled out, soaking up the mid-April sun. While today you wouldn’t find anyone conspicuously smoking pot, 40 or 50 years ago pot use was...

Dirty Cartoons: How childrens television secretly caters to stoners

Dirty Cartoons: How children’s television secretly caters to stoners

By Jack Trainor / Staff Writer April 20, 2015

Cartoons these days are getting seedy. Millennials can remember spending their childhood Saturday mornings watching beloved, more innocent shows that now only exist in reruns, like “Dexter’s Laboratory,”...

Garland goes back to the future with Ex Machina

Garland goes back to the future with ‘Ex Machina’

By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer April 15, 2015

'Ex Machina'Directed by: Alex GarlandStarring: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia VikanderGrade: B+Looking past smartphones and Google Glass to the next level of digital advancement, Alex Garland’s...

Curren$y cashes in with Pilot Talk III

Curren$y cashes in with ‘Pilot Talk III’

By Nick Mullen / For The Pitt News April 15, 2015

Curren$yPilot Talk IIIGrade: B Grab a good pair of headphones, because New Orleans rapper Curren$y has returned with his long-awaited third installment of Pilot Talk.The album sees the reunion of Curren$y...

Monday Night Live: Kenan Thompson entertains Pitt

Monday Night Live: Kenan Thompson entertains Pitt

By Andrew Fishman / Staff Writer April 14, 2015

Most current college students grew up in the ’90s and vividly remember the days of VHS tapes, Dunkaroos and significantly funnier television shows on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. On Monday, students...

Baumbach’s “While We’re Young” an earnestly human comedy

Baumbach’s “While We’re Young” an earnestly human comedy

By Ian Flanagan / Staff Writer April 14, 2015

While We're YoungDirected by: Noah BaumbachStarring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda SeyfriedRated R for languageGrade: A-Youth is wasted on the old — or so Noah Baumbach’s new film,...

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