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A Musical Meeting of "Midnights": A Taylor Swift Album Review
By The DSJ Staff In celebration of Taylor Swift's newly released 10th studio album, the DSJ Staff teamed up to review the musical...
dogstreetjournal
Aug 23, 20245 min read
Keeping Personal Histories: A Case for Writing and Self Expression
By Lena Smith '24 Photo illustration courtesy of Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Images A great deal of us have started a daily journal and...
Lena Smith
Aug 23, 20243 min read
Holiday Cookie Recipes: Sweet Treats to Satisfy your Sweet Tooth!
By Rose Caisley ‘26 From sugar cookies to gingerbread men, no holiday season is complete without some appropriately merry desserts. And...
Rose Caisley
Aug 23, 20242 min read
The Three Hallmark Plots
By Abby Paras '24 Hallmark Movies. You either love them or you hate them, and if you love them, chances are that it’s a love-hate...
Abby Paras
Aug 23, 20245 min read
Looking Back on 62 Years of Holiday Cheer: The Story Rankin-Bass Animated Entertainment
By Rose Caisley '26 Photo courtesy of The Today Show and Yana Iskayeva / Getty Images Whether you watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...
Rose Caisley
Aug 23, 20243 min read
The 2023 Oscars Biggest Snubs (and Why These Films Deserved Better)
By: Sage Futrell '26 The nominees for the 95th annual Academy awards were revealed earlier this month. Once again, avid film fans and...
Sage Futrell
Aug 23, 20243 min read
Your English Professors' Favorite Book(s): Part III
By: Lena Smith '24 Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Magazine and David Madison/Getty Images Wolf Solent (1929) by John Cowper Powys:...
Lena Smith
Aug 23, 20243 min read
The Price of an Oscar: The Shifted Perspective of "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
By: Lena Smith '24 Caution: if you click on the link to the second post mentioned in the article, please be wary of expletives and...
Lena Smith
Aug 23, 20244 min read
The Tortured Poets Department is Bad...And That's Okay
By: Abby Paras '24 Photo Courtesy of Swifipedia I know the title sounds bad, but bear with me. I'm writing this review not as a Taylor...
Abby Paras
May 3, 20245 min read
Best Picture Retrospective
By: Abby Paras '24 and Lena Smith '24 Photo Courtesy of Aframe.oscars.org Awards season has died down. Are the films that had all the...
dogstreetjournal
May 3, 202411 min read
Summer Reads: Girl Logic by Iliza Schlesinger
By: Rose Caisley '26 Photo Courtesy of Hachette Books When looking for life advice, you generally want to steer in the opposite direction...
Rose Caisley
May 3, 20242 min read
It's Been Here the Whole Time: Why :DROPOUT is the Best Streaming Service for College Kids
By: Rose Caisley '26 Photo Courtesy of Variety We've all been there. Maybe you had a fun night out and need to wind down before going to...
Rose Caisley
May 3, 20242 min read
2024 Oscars Predictions
By: Rose Caisley '26 Photo Courtesy of US Weekly Welcome one and welcome all to Hollywood’s most exciting night. Last year marked a...
Rose Caisley
Mar 9, 20244 min read
“More Alike than We Thought: A JDP Perspective“
By: Gianna Klopping, ‘27 Photo Courtesy of W&M and St. Andrews University As a freshman, it can be daunting when you first arrive on...
Gianna Klopping
Feb 25, 20243 min read
The SAG-AFTRA Strike: A Writers Retrospective
By Damanpreet Lobana ‘25 Photo Courtesy of Matthew Simmons and WireImages It has been three months since the Screen Actors Guild and...
Damanpreet Singh Lobana
Dec 4, 20233 min read
The Best (and Worst) Movies of 2023
By Rose Caisley '26 Photo Courtesy of Corina Rainer via Unsplash Another year, another Academy Awards Ceremony. With the Academy in hot...
Rose Caisley
Dec 2, 20232 min read
Early Signs of Fall in the Matoaka Trails
By Isabella Martinez ‘27 Photo Courtesy of Isabella Martinez '27 Golden hour is one of the prettiest times of day on the trails Photo...
Isabella Martinez
Oct 1, 20231 min read
AMP 2023 Fall Concert: Featuring Rebecca Black in the Burg
By: Anne Barry ‘27 and Victoria Polites ‘27 Photo Courtesy of Victoria Polites ‘27 Rebecca Black. You know her, you love her, or you...
dogstreetjournal
Sep 24, 20234 min read
How A24 is taking over Hollywood
By: Damanpreet Lobana '25 Photo Courtesy of Film Stories Independent Movie Productions, more popularly known as ‘Indie Movies’, have...
Damanpreet Singh Lobana
Sep 24, 20233 min read
Tasting with Vic and Anne: Rating Starbucks New Fall 2023 Drinks
By: Anne Barry '27 and Victoria Polites '27 Photo Courtesy of Anne Barry '27 The new Richmond Road Starbucks is now open just in time for...
dogstreetjournal
Sep 24, 20234 min read
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