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The Monitor

The Student News Site of Marymount Manhattan College

The Monitor

Behind the Song: A Visual Symphony of a Music Producers Day

MariaChiara Ansioso, Guest Writer December 7, 2023

Walking up Harding Ave, in my home state of New Jersey, I feel nostalgic through my now 19-year-old eyes. It was around three years ago when I started coming to the recording studio myself to intern and...

How Lana Del Rey Reinvented the Nostalgic American Aesthetic

How Lana Del Rey Reinvented the Nostalgic American Aesthetic

Francesca Crumpton, Digital Managing Editor October 17, 2023

On October 3rd I experienced one of the best nights of my life, and I met the one and only Lana Del Rey. My roommates and I bought tickets on a whim when she announced her tour, without thinking about...

Kaytraminé Don’t Need No DJ... They Don’t Even Need A Set

Kaytraminé Don’t Need No DJ… They Don’t Even Need A Set

Kylee Simpson, Staff Writer October 17, 2023

It was 11:30 p.m., and the crowd had been waiting for Kaytraminé to step on the stage. Just as the concert-goers began to feel the weariness and fatigue that comes with the infinite waiting,...

MMC's Lanes Miller: Entering the Theater Industry as a Non-Binary Performer

MMC’s Lanes Miller: Entering the Theater Industry as a Non-Binary Performer

Kylee Simpson, Guest Writer May 15, 2023

This interview has been edited for length and continuity purposes.    Lanes Miller ran to their spot as places was called. They stood backstage, still in disbelief that this was really happening....

Isadora Barnett and Henry Casson: Modern Day Club Kids

Isadora Barnett and Henry Casson: Modern Day Club Kids

Elise Uhlar, Guest Writer April 19, 2023

   Club kids of the late eighties and nineties may have lived for the club- but those of the modern era live off of it. Take Henry Casson and Isadora Barnett as a gleaming example. Casson began throwing...

The Influence of Black History and Commercialized Fashion at FIT’s Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style

The Influence of Black History and Commercialized Fashion at FIT’s Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style

Rayiah Ross, Social Media Manager April 19, 2023

Inside the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Museum at FIT, holds vintage apple bottom jeans, Deaf Jam University jeans, and nails worn by Cardi B. The large Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop...

The Last Of Us Episode 6: What A Rollercoaster Of Emotions

The Last Of Us Episode 6: What A Rollercoaster Of Emotions

Gabrielle Fiorella, Editor in Chief February 22, 2023

When I started watching this show on January 15th when it premiered, I had so much hope for it to be like the game and I have been extremely happy with how closely related it is. While there have been...

Modern-Day Horrors of Women Rejecting Men: Another Dangerous Reality for Women

Modern-Day Horrors of Women Rejecting Men: Another Dangerous Reality for Women

Najla Alexander, Features Editor, Crime Reporter February 22, 2023

The recent Idaho College murders have opened a wider hole in the very old and serious argument about how dangerous it is for women to reject men in this day and age. Bryan Kohberger a criminology student...

Photo Six: Dear Boy performing on stage. All four members are pictured, from right to left: Austin Hayman, guitar and backing vocals, Ben Grey, guitar and lead vocals, Keith Cooper, drums, and Lucy Lawrence, bass and backing vocals.

A Night Elsewhere

Kat Dale, Guest Writer December 23, 2022

If you survive the rush hour L Train from Union Square to Jefferson Street, you’ll find yourself below ground in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This gentrified, overhyped, and frankly, bothersome neighborhood...

Holiday Cheer Movies to Look Out For

Holiday Cheer Movies to Look Out For

Najla Alexander, Features Editor, Crime Beat Reporter December 15, 2022

It’s the time of the year when Santa is coming to town-SANTA AAAAAAAAAA! If you read that line in the voice of Buddy the Elf from the Christmas classic Elf, you know what time of year it is! It is time...

Cheap Things to do in NYC

Cheap Things to do in NYC

Rayiah Ross, Social Media Manager September 22, 2022

Having fun in New York City can feel impossible if you’re on a limited budget, the inability of it all is even worse as a college student. New York City is among the most expensive places in the world...

Little Amal walks through NYC

Little Amal walks through NYC

Elliott Case, Digital Mangaging Editor September 19, 2022

When 12 foot tall Little Amal stepped into JFK airport on September fourteenth, she was embarking on the beginning of her journey through New York City. This September, Amal will travel through all five...

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