Browsing: Arts and Life

“Anytime you get people who are of different races, different socioeconomic situations in the same room and they start conversing with each other and looking at art, it’s powerful medicine,” artist Susan Lee Sistrunk said.

Netflix’s new series, “Squid Game,” is a Korean drama that follows Seong Gi-hun, Cho Sang-woo and hundreds of others as they accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside awaits a tempting prize with deadly high stakes — a survival game that has a whopping $40 million prize.

By having Student Productions partner with Baylor Chamber of Commerce and Taste of Waco to hype up the excitement, After Dark makes history selling out both shows in Waco Hall.

“We loved the atmosphere that Baylor brought to the community, and we already saw the support … so we are just excited to be able to bring Dutch Bros to Waco. We just want to be a place where anyone and everyone can come and have a good drink,” store operator Jackson Luckin said.

Gone are the days of dropping everything to catch a show, or stressing to record it for later. Now that movies and TV are available from any device at any time, people watch programming on their own schedule, marking a significant shift in the dynamic between Hollywood and the consumer.

“We took a look at the story and our resources, and we decided to rework the vision of the film,” Sam Henderson, theater and film lecturer, said. “Originally, if we had made it in 2020, it would’ve been a very different film. I think what we made this May of 2021 is actually a better version.”

Waco is more than just Baylor, but it’s up to you to go out and explore outside of the Baylor bubble, especially since Waco is your new “home” — at least during the school year.