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NEWS 2/14/13 6:00pm

Blast from the Past: Rocko's Modern Life

So it may be a little insane and may even drive you up the wall, but you know the feeling. It is when you suddenly find yourself overcome with happiness - wait, there's also a little sadness infused in there. That is just what nostalgia is, I guess: two competing emotions, grappling for your attention. This feeling is enough to get you to talk up the old Nicktoons as though they were the best things in existence, and naturally, you grew up in the best decade ever: the '90s. The other day, I revisited an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, and while I loved the show as a kid, I wonder how warped my childhood mind must have been for me to have enjoyed it for so long.


NEWS 5/23/12 7:00pm

Bella Gaia launches audiences into an orbit around Earth

Tabbed as an audiovisual fusion performance, Bella Gaia touched down at the Miller Outdoor Theater on April 21. I vehemently stretched my neck in a languid attempt to peer over thousands of fellow Hermann Park onlookers to watch the astronaut-inspired performance. The performance was designed collaboratively by NASA and music producer Kenji Williams to theatrically mimic the effects of outer space flight.