Watching the 1997 epic Titanic in 3D while sobbing so hard my face becomes swollen sounds like the perfect thing to do on a Friday night. I’m a total girl. Last Friday night I went to see the movie, flanked by friends Hillary Hyduke ’14 and Jen Passios ’13. Many Titanic-skeptics reminded us that, yes, we could have seen the movie on DVD or television.

This past month I found an artist profile about Phantogram on a friend’s blog, Hali Love Factory. I literally thought I’d died and gone to someplace where ethereal backbeats and two-part harmonies were the most decadent and pleasing sounds ever created. The song “Don’t Move” off of their Nov. 2011 album Nightlife, is an electro-pop ode to moving on and leaving the past behind.

Recently, I was feeling down. The kind of down that a walk around Lower Lake can’t fix. Maybe it’s just me, but it always seems like there is a point that comes once a semester at the one month to go mark that brings with it a school-specific ennui. When that time comes, what can we do to battle the onslaught of malaise and general disinterest that makes it nearly impossible to work on final papers?

It’s that time of year again! Each April, Mount Holyoke’s very own radio station, WMHC 91.5 FM, brings live music and DJing to the campus as a part of our annual Radio Week celebration. We’ll be hosting eight different bands from a variety of genres, with local and national acts that are sure to be crowd-pleasers.

As part of ABC’s mid-season line-up of premieres, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice creator and executive producer Shonda Rimes’ newest creation, Scandal, debuted on April 5. The show was basically made for me.

Star Wars, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Toy Story. Three different films, all with the same problem: they fail the Bechdel Test, a list of three requirements that can be applied to gauge female presence in a film. The test stems from a joke made by a character in Alison Bechdel’s popular underground comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, famous for its humorous and honest portrayal of lesbians. The character’s requirements are first, there must be at least two named female characters.

Members of the Network are busy preparing for the annual Spring Weekend event due to be held over the weekend of April 20, with the partnership of other student organizations. This year’s Weekend will consist of three events, with the running theme “Never Grow Up.”

It’s a flavor of music that’s more sugary than well-written. It’s not going to influence our culture in a big way, but the lyrics are just so catchy, and catchy is hard to ignore. Case in point: I am blasting Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe” as I write this.

Why do people like science fiction so much? Why do they attend ComicCon in full costume? What drives them to dress up and perform as their favorite characters? Is it for escapism’s sake alone? Or perhaps a fixation with what might transpire in the future? It’s indicative of science fiction’s pervasiveness in pop culture that you don’t have to be a diehard fan to feel the pull.

After a 17-month hiatus, Don Draper and the rest of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce are back. There were many unanswered questions last season. Did Don marry Megan? What happened to Joan and Roger’s baby? Longtime customer Lucky Strike left the ad agency – what’s next? There was a lot up in the air for 17 months. Was the two hour season opener what the fans were expecting?