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Review: "The Brutalist" is an absorbing experience

Review: “The Brutalist” is an absorbing experience

February 6, 2025 at 12:35 pm 0 comments

“The Brutalist” is one of the last movies to close out 2024 and certainly made its mark into 2025. Brady Corbet’s period drama film stars Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the United States in search of the American Dream until a rich client opens an opportunityRead More

DMACC prepares for spring musical

DMACC prepares for spring musical

January 26, 2025 at 8:30 am 0 comments

As the spring semester begins at DMACC, the drama department is preparing for its next production, “Ride The Cyclone.” Carl Lindberg, the professor of theatre and acting, has been teaching full-time at the Ankeny campus since 2018. He is excited about this play and hopes many students attend. Lindberg statesRead More

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“Swindlers” wraps up the fall semester for DMACC theatre

November 25, 2024 at 11:36 am 0 comments

Over the weekends between November 15 and 24 in the Blackbox Theater, the DMACC Theatre program put on a production of “Swindlers: A True-ish Tall Tale.”  The play was written by Noah Diaz and was directed by Brittany Rebhuan. The story follows a girl named Marie who feeling stuck inRead More

Bella's scary movie picks

Bella’s scary movie picks

October 2, 2024 at 12:07 pm 0 comments

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought as a horror fan it was very appropriate for me to give you a list of my top five scary movie recommendations to watch this year. These are in no actual order of importance because then that would be like asking aRead More

DMACC and Grand View make audiences go “Head Over Heels”

DMACC and Grand View make audiences go “Head Over Heels”

April 24, 2024 at 11:12 am 0 comments

By Kaylynn Bousman, special to the Chronicle “Head Over Heels,” originally by Jeff Whitty and adapted by James Magruder, is a jukebox musical featuring exclusively music by The Go-Go’s. The musical was showcased here in the DMACC Black Box Theatre as well as at the Grand View Viking Theatre fromRead More

Need new music? Here are Bella’s top five albums

Need new music? Here are Bella’s top five albums

March 27, 2024 at 11:50 am 0 comments

1. “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” – The 1975 “A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships” is The 1975’s third album and looks into society’s connection with technology, mental health, addiction, politics, and overcoming adversity and what it is like living and growing up in the age of technology. TheRead More

Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" continues to resonate

Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” continues to resonate

March 6, 2024 at 12:16 pm 0 comments

“Do the Right Thing,” directed and starring Spike Lee, was released in 1989. The film is about the complexities of being black in America. In 2023 at the Toronto International Film Festival while accepting the Ebert Director Award Spike Lee recalled the press discouraging people from seeing it. They believedRead More

The Chronicle talks rom-coms

The Chronicle talks rom-coms

February 9, 2024 at 11:40 am 0 comments

Bella, Dashae, and Lara talk about their favorite romantic comedies. https://campuschroniclenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/romcomfeb9.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download