Category: Features

With the intent to help local families suffering from severe or terminal illnesses, VSU’s Accounting and Finance Honors Society, Beta Alpha Psi, is hosting a 5K run for Saturday, Jan. 28. The race was first organized in 2010 by accounting professor Dr. Leisa Marshall after former student Steven Brogdon’s father was diagnosed with stage-four colon [...]

Joseph Ashley Eaton, VSU junior and mass media major, has managed to publish two books: “Night’s Ocean View” and “The Imagination Engines,” all while balancing school and playing guitar in two bands.

Movie: Contraband Director: Baltasar Kormakur Starring: Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale Movie Release date: January 13, 2012 Currently Playing at: GTC Valdosta Stadium 16 and Valdosta Stadium Cinemas Contraband is an action packed movie about a family man named Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) who in his past was known to smuggle drugs and counterfeit money. [...]

Divided By Zero’s grand opening festival started off with a bang as people joined and celebrated the beginning of a very unique business from early in the afternoon to late in the night. The free festival hosted last Saturday Jan. 17 from 1 to 9 p.m., included live music from local artists such as Ninja [...]

The Whitehead Auditorium was filled with the classical sounds of the enhaké Quartet last Wednesday evening playing pieces from composers such as Walter Rabl and Dmitri Shostakovich. enhaké includes musicians Katherine Geeseman on the cello, Eun-Hee Park on the piano, Wonkak Kim on the clarinet, and Valdosta State’s own Max Brent Williams on the violin. [...]

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts began its debut of its annual Draw Project Fundraising auction on Jan. 9 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Draw Project assists the art department in raising money, which helps contribute to scholarships offered to exceptional art students involved in the community that attend VSU. The event [...]

Welcome back. I hope you had a great winter break and MLK holiday. Because the Consumer Electronic Show was last week, this issue will have tons of cell phones, tablets, and as much info as I can give. First, we will start with the phone all the critics are talking about, AT&T’s 4G LTE Nokia [...]

The Valdosta School of Ballet is performing “Sleeping Beauty” Jan. 21 and 22 at the Valdosta High School Performing Arts Center. There is a scheduled performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and a matinee Sunday at 3:00 p.m. The performance is directed by Jacque Wheeler, professor in the theatre and dance department, and Brandi Cunningham Roberts, [...]

The annual National All-Media Juried competition, sponsored by Citizens Community Bank, will be held at VSU’s Fine Art Gallery. The exhibits will be displayed beginning January 17 through February 3, 2012. The hours of the exhibit are: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. An oping reception [...]

Hello, guys and dolls, allow me to introduce myself. I am Maya Kellam, and I am your new pop addict. Now that the introduction is over lets grab our cups as I pour out some tea. The arrival of the baby of the decade almost shut down twitter. Jay-Z and Beyonce’s first born, Blue Ivy [...]

A new scholarship, for students in need, honors a life-long educator and her son. At a post-lunch convocation, Dr. Louis Levy announced the Ruby and John Sullivan Educational Scholarship and awarded Sullivan the fourth President’s Medallion to be awarded at VSU. The scholarship announcement is in conjunction with the renaming of the Valdosta Literacy Center [...]