It’s the holiday season, and any nondenominational figure of gift-giving customs is on their way! Yes, we are all eagerly awaiting that unique time of year in which the days shorten, knuckles dry out faster than day-old focaccia bread,…

There is no shortage of energy at the Java Barn. Whether it is excitement, anticipation, joy, dread, angst, euphoria or rage, you can find it at Java. Mal Maïz was a test of stamina, emitting a collective persistence to endure until the…

What? burst onto the Java stage for the third consecutive week in a row of blaring horns, bountiful vocal harmonies and crowd-pleasing conga lines. The crowd was indeed pleased, dressed up in a SLU slew of outlandish costumes, characters…

A skeletal feline… A polka-dotted bald lad… A boogying Northface puffer model tearing up the dance floor… Meatball au d’oeuvres… An anarchist Margaret Thatcher… To quote three of the esteemed Java Barn housemates, "I think this might be my…

Without a Java show this week, what is a poor musical lover boy to do? Listen to everything else possible, of course. A slew of new releases arrived last Friday with an anxious mix of pop grooves, hip-hop highlights…

SLU Funk hit the St. Lawrence University music scene with stride and pride with a raucous opus of brass-boosted bronze soldiers and harmonious vocalizing virtuosos. The ensemble already has quite the semester under their belt after…

If you happened upon the Owen D. Young Library’s Yellow Pipe Room in the past month, you may have noticed an intricately designed black-and-white sculpture. That neat colorless niche is the 2D Book Nook, “an interactive art installation…

Electric, I do declare. The newest staple of Java lore arrived Thursday in the form of a proudly LGBTQ+ shaggy redhead with an absurd amount of spunk and magnetism. Molly Martin came to our humble campus after nearly a decade in the…