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Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on theeaglecoronavirusproject.com, a separate website created by Eagle staff at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. Articles from that website have been migrated to The Eagle’s main site and backdated with the dates they were originally published in order to allow readers to access them more easily.
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on theeaglecoronavirusproject.com, a separate website created by Eagle staff at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. Articles from that website have been migrated to The Eagle’s main site and backdated with the dates they were originally published in order to allow readers to access them more easily.
Since students moved onto campus for American University’s Mid-Semester Residential Experience (MSRE), dining has become a key focus of many residents’ questions and concerns.
Noteworthy is The Eagle’s podcast for the music section that spotlights students creating, performing and producing their own music.
While so much of life now revolves around technology, it’s hard to find moments of escape from news alerts and social media scrolling, and it’s even harder to maintain our jagged and anxious attention. Film began as an imaginative outlook where the camera transformed our world, let us look at ourselves differently and took us to new places. All the time, and all at once, Americans have looked to film as a way to feel better in brief, collective moments, apart from their anxieties, fears and anger. Here are some great films that can help you escape, if only for an hour and then some.
The Eagle’s Editor-in-Chief Sophie Austin and News Managing Editor Kelsey Carolan did not edit this piece because both have a personal affiliation with Sasha Fernandez.
Yamiche Alcindor, PBS NewsHour’s White House correspondent, will join an American University professor on Oct. 1 for a webinar hosted by AU Student Government Kennedy Political Union, the School of Communication and The Blackprint.
Adams Morgan is hosting a mostly virtual celebration, featuring live-streamed local music performances, children and family activities, and restaurant and bar discounts for Adams Morgan Day on Sunday.
American University’s December commencement ceremony will be hosted online this semester, due to the spread of the coronavirus, President Sylvia Burwell announced in an email to the University community on Tuesday.
Correction: This article has been corrected since it was first published to note that Delia Houseal has three children, not two.
Local restaurants are expanding their outdoor dining spaces into sidewalks and streets throughout the DMV area to establish blocks, now known as “streateries.”
Independent bookstores across the District can now reopen their brick and mortar stores as D.C. enters phase two of operating during COVID-19. However, over the past few months of quarantine, many local stores have adjusted to online-only formats with creative ways to provide books and seminars to customers worldwide.
Watching “Paris Is Burning” today feels like watching a contemporary artifact, a paradox created by an old camera about people and culture that are distressingly recognizable. The grainy handheld camera of the late ‘80s that was used to film 70 hours of footage directed by Jennie Livingston, who’s a lesbian, harkens back to home movies and a style of underground film that doesn’t get much aesthetic attention anymore. The story of the queer drag queen and dance culture of New York City lets viewers see the contradictions of these nightly celebrations through the eyes of Black and Latinx queer, transgender, gay and lesbian people.
The coronavirus pandemic has left many of us in our homes, binging, rewatching and looking for any entertainment to pass the time. Streaming services have become saviors with the abundance of choices that are no longer as overwhelming as they are convenient. Instead of visiting box offices, we’re opening up Netflix, which has gained almost 16 million subscribers during the first quarter of the year.
When he was growing up in Chevy Chase, American University professor and film producer Josh Levin would visit his neighborhood theater, the Avalon Theatre, which opened in 1923. In fact, Levin frequented many local theaters, like the Key Theatre in Georgetown and the MacArthur Theater in the Palisades, as a child, before most of them closed down.
Clubhouse Fest is hosting a pop-up music festival that will feature AU-inspired cupcakes at Echostage’s Illenium event on Friday.
New students and returning Eagles have a lot to look forward to during this year’s All American Welcome, the period American University designates from Aug. 19 to Sept. 6 to welcome first-year students and help them transition onto campus.
Chartwells has been chosen as the new dining provider for the University in place of previous vendor Aramark, Chief Financial Officer Doug Kudravetz and Vice President of Campus Life Fanta Aw announced in an email to the AU community on Wednesday, June 19.
As AU begins to accept proposals from new dining vendors in the next few months, students could be facing major changes when it comes to campus food options this fall.
The owner of the Megabytes Cafe has filed a lawsuit against American University over access to his business and losses in revenue over the past three months while the restaurant was closed.
