Life advice. Dream blunt rotations. An accidental 6-7 joke. Comedian Caleb Hearon brought it all to the Clark-Fox Forum in front of a packed crowd of WashU undergraduates last Wednesday, April 1. Student Union’s Social Programming Board (SPB) teased the event for weeks leading up to the show.

When you enter a college classroom, you don’t typically expect to sit next to a student with a ring on their finger. But being married in college isn’t as uncommon as many assume. WashU is proof of this with quite a few members of the student body who are married or already engaged.

“I met my friends during the first week of school, and I felt so lucky going into freshman year with them. As the year went on, though, I realized that I’ve been drifting apart from my friends. We’re not really interested in the same things, and I just don’t feel as close to them as I used to. Still, everyone else seems to have really solid friend groups, and I don’t want to be the only person without any friends. What should I do?”

“You are the most guarded and elusive woman that I have ever met — how are you able to date the most famous man in America?” is the confrontational yet summative question asked of Carolyn Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon) in a dimly-lit Manhattan bar.

Whether it is cheffing up buttery lobster rolls for a summer-in-the-Hamptons-themed apartment cafe, preparing a French onion focaccia for an onion-inspired dinner party, or whipping up his famous funfetti layer cake for New York City celebrities, recent WashU graduate-turned-chef and content creator Ryan Nordheimer is always on his A-game in the kitchen.

If you were to google “Currents 125: Blas Isasi,” a picture of this sculpture, on display at the St. Louis Art Museum as part of SLAM’s new exhibition, would be the first thing you see.

For the American Midwest, a simultaneously bustling and busted region, any recognition in mainstream media is rare and worth celebrating.

The 27th annual Carnaval performance returned to the Edison Theatre to showcase Latin American and Caribbean roots through dance, dramaturgy, and dazzling illustrations of cultural pride.

In the week leading up to the premiere of “Brian” at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, I had the opportunity to talk with the six cast members who make up the vibrant group of high schoolers in the witty and grounded coming-of-age film. 

“It felt very young, very youthful, very [much] like we all had a voice in what was being made. And I think that takes a very good director to make everyone feel that way and still keep everything under control,” Joshua Colley, who plays Brian’s friend Justin, said. The film marks Will Ropp’s directorial debut.

Sara Robin and Jack LeMay do not want people to stop using social media. They both have their own Instagram accounts, and the documentary they recently premiered at SXSW Film & TV Festival even has its own promotional Instagram account. What they do want, however, is for social media to be safer for everyone, especially for young people who are growing up with an addictive repository of short-form videos and never-ending photos at their fingertips.