Photos by Faith Benjamin   Winter Sports Preview This upcoming winter sports season, Johnson Athletics decided to add Indoor Track & Field to their sports lineup. This has created many opportunities for the already present Outdoor Track & Field athletes, and all the future...

Laura Roald is a part-time faculty member for the Performance Arts & Technology program at VTSU-Johnson. Where did you grow up? I grew up in a town about the size of Burlington, comparatively, but for the area, like a midsize redneck town outside of Vancouver. Yeah, not a not a lovely place to...

You are sitting in your room, alone. It’s dark outside, and there is no sound besides the whispers of the wind. You are on your website/app of choice, eyes glazed over as you mindlessly scroll. It doesn’t matter. The point is that you are alone. And then suddenly … you hear it. A low buzzing...

Hi, all! My name’s Cohen Repaci and I review hot dogs! I started this phenomenon in September of 2023 and it’s been a personality trait ever since. It brings me, and others, a wide amount of joy to be able to do this. I hope you enjoy it as well! Hot Dog Critique #32 When/Where: Oct 8th, Al’s...

Since the release of Optimization 2.0 and the subsequent departure of Isaac Eddy at the end of the last academic year, the future of the Polaris Performance Company seemed bleak. Nevermore, the company’s last musical production in April, came and passed, with the conclusion from both current and past...

After having served the Portland, Oregon area, Shahqia Cross, owner of a blissful haven of an herbal tea house known as Rainbow Te, has opened up shop on Johnson’s Main Street. The business website’s homepage states that Rainbow Te provides an array of bubble teas, herbal teas with blends inspired...

Look up at the comically large floating red lips! It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s a science fiction double feature! On October 18, VTSU-Johnson’s SGA partnered with the Campus Activities Board to release their annual screening and costume contest for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. A spectacle-driven...

Editor’s Note: This is the second issue of the blog Black Talk: A Zine.   Because of their connections with social justice and political leftness, goth, punk, and other “alternative” subcultures project a large image of inclusion and acceptance. They’re known for being spaces where...

This past Friday Johnson said goodbye to Shane Stacey, who shamelessly left the Johnson campus for better opportunities across the state, leaving a six-foot-five (and a half) hole in our hearts. In his own words, Stacey “drinks coffee and knows things,” but his official role was the STEM Development...

On a quiet road in Stowe, there lies a bridge. It is known to some as the Gold Brook Covered Bridge, but to most it goes by one name: “Emily’s Bridge.” What was once a bridge for horse and buggy is now a bridge to connect the living and the dead. On late nights, one figure stands alone, waiting...

It’s been a year since the revolt (or attack, depending on who you ask) on October 7th. Since then, much has happened to the people of Gaza and Occupied Palestine. From the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declaring Israel an apartheid state and ordering the unlawful occupation to end, to Lebanon’s...