Twenty years later, ‘Clerks’ the definitive workplace comedy
By Shawn Cooke / A&E Editor
October 13, 2014
Who ever said that the ultimate workplace movie had to be set in an office?For many millennial college graduates, their first job out of school might be behind a counter — not suffocating in a cubicle. Even though it might seem like we’re all headed toward a sea of TPS reports, migrating desks a...
Time Capsule: ‘American Idiot’ captured the zeitgeist like no other, catapulted Green Day to arena status
By Stephanie Roman / Staff Writer
September 29, 2014
“I don’t want to be an American idiot.”This phrase is probably still uttered 10 years later under disenchanted breaths when citizens discover that the government spies on them and that the United States launched airstrikes at ISIS.Green Day’s anthemic 2004 album American Idiot channeled bleeding-...
Time Capsule: Arcade Fire’s masterpiece found medium between intimacy and stadium-ambitions
By Dan Willis / Staff Writer
September 11, 2014
Time Capsule is a new series for The Pitt News that commemorates seminal releases in entertainment at or around a milestone anniversary. As the years pass, a work can gain greater context or significance than when it was first released. This retrospective series will strive to illuminate our favorite p...