On October 22, Forest Talk, a new pop-rock band straight out of the“Magic City,” Birmingham Ala. played their first rooftop show at their hometown’s Southern Kitchen and Bar.
Read moreWalking Dead Season 7 Review
On Sunday, October 23, 20.8 million people tuned in to watch AMC’s Season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead: ratings that shattered even those of NFL’s Sunday Night Football that night.
Read moreBob Dylan "Speechless" By Nobel Prize
“If I accept the prize? Of course,” Dylan replied to Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, when he called the institution in late October.
Read moreCovenant Alumnus Writes Music for Presidential Inauguration
In the midst of political division, a light of encouragement has come to shine over a chaotic election season.
Read moreSay Hello to the Robots: Hire an AI Composer
Are you curious what a league of robots wreaking havoc on a synthesizer might sound like? You might imagine it sounds slightly more harmonious than a room full of monkeys.
Read moreYellowcard Review
Earlier this year, Yellowcard announced that their performing and recording career has come to an end. After one final world tour and album, dubbed Yellowcard, the band finally called it quits.
Read moreThoughts on Rocky Horror Picture Show Remake
First off, this movie features an engaged couple who finds a haunted house and naively stumbles into a raging drag party led by a “sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania.”
Read moreNational Book Awards
Each November, the nonprofit National Book Foundation awards its National Book Awards (NBA) to American authors to celebrate their newly published works, but finalists for each of the four categories were released earlier this month.
Read moreCovenant College Theatre Department Presents: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
This November, Covenant College’s Theatre Department promises to enliven Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy in a production that roots itself in the timeless text, but invites the audience to interact with the story in new and evocative ways.
Read moreBastille, Wild World Review
Bastille’s sophomore album, Wild World, centers around a theme that is fleshed out in different ways throughout the album's long 19 track lineup, but is all brought together by its lyrical centerpiece, “Warmth:”
Read moreShepherds Who Deal in Lead
...just because a plot is old doesn’t mean it can’t be used by an artful director to speak a powerful prophetic message to a new audience in a new cultural context. That is what Antoine Fuqua set out to do with his 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven.
Read moreAfrican American Museum of History and Culture
On September 24, 2016, the Smithsonian opened up the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Read moreThe Gray Havens
The Gray Havens, husband and wife duo Dave and Licia Radford, charmed Covenant students with their winning personalities and self-described “narrative folk-pop” on Tuesday, September 27 as part of the Francis Schaeffer Conference on True Spirituality.
Read moreThe Absurd in the Ordinary: A Review of The Bald Soprano
This past Friday night, students, faculty, and Chattanooga residents arrived at Sanderson 215 for the opening night of the Covenant College Theatre Department’s The Bald Soprano, written by Eugène Ionesco and directed by Prof. Camille Hallstrom.
Read moreHarry Potter and the Cursed Child
Few book series have so thoroughly defined a generation as J.K. Rowling’s saga of “the boy who lived.” ...When Rowling announced she was releasing the play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the fans of her books were ecstatic.
Read moreThe Places I Love
When I was a child, the world was immense...
Read moreThe Matthaus Evangelium Gallery
What if God were to give us new eyes to see, new ears to hear, new hearts to feel the power of His inaugural gospel? That is what is being offered in the art gallery on the second floor of Covenant’s very own Anna E. Kresge Memorial Library.
Read moreFrank Ocean Blonde Review
I think it’s fair to say that a quite a few people have been holding their breath (and passing out) while waiting for Frank Ocean to release a new album since his 2012 debut, channel ORANGE.
Read moreThe Emmys
The Emmy Awards, the most prestigious night in television, celebrated the year’s small-screen accomplishments for the 68th time last Sunday in a landslide victory for HBO series Game of Thrones and Veep.
Read moreOde to Gene Wilder
His life became only Wilder.
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