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Apr 23, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Lillian Curtin |Zoe Leone
Growing up, my dad always told me, “Zoe, you came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And you’re all out of bubblegum.”It was a silly mantra that brought me a boost of confidence in my most unsure hours. And my first few weeks here at Quinnipiac University were certainly made up of many of them. I came to this school two years ago as a junior transfer student, not sure of anything other than a passion for writing and a deep love of pop culture and entertainment.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone
Seven minutes is not a particularly long time. But for those who watch the hit television series, “Bluey,” the time span has been a familiar episode length through the show’s past three seasons. However, a special episode of “Bluey” — which follows the life of the 7-year-old Blue Heeler puppy Bluey Heeler and her little sister, Bingo, her mother, Chilli and her father, Bandit — marked a change for fans young and old of the show.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone |Lillian Curtin
When the trailer for “The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping” was released, my relatives, hometown friends and strangers flooded Facebook to share it. The three-episode limited series on Netflix may be another true crime docuseries for others to binge, but for me, it was personal. “The program” the film refers to is a so-called “school” for troubled teenagers that were abused and mistreated in the name of behavior modification.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone
“This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album.”These were the words Beyoncé Knowles-Carter used in a March 19 Instagram post to describe her newest album, “Cowboy Carter,” which released March 29. After the first listen to the 27-track album, it’s clear that truer words have never been spoken. While “Cowboy Carter” is the second part of “Renaissance”’s beginnings, the album actually came to fruition after Beyoncé’s experience performing with The Chicks at the 2016 Country Music Awards.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone |Jacklyn Pellegrino
Quinnipiac University Student Programming Board’s annual Wake the Giant concert is back again, and this year it’s bringing students back to the early 2000s. Flo Rida has officially been announced as headliner, where he will be hitting the stage on April 14 at the M&T Bank Arena. DJ Fire will start the event as opener at 8 p.m., and then Flo Rida — known for his popular hits such as “Whistle,” “Wild Ones” and “Right Round” — will follow him.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone
I have to get something off my chest. It’s a confession I’ve been keeping a secret for months, worried about others’ reactions and the implications it could have on my work. But it’s been eating me alive and it finally feels time to come clean. I’ve grown sick of TV shows and movies. Over the past few months, I’ve been in a serious slump. I’ve started 25 different TV shows and have watched a grand total of five in their entirety.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone |Benjamin Yeargin
When I think of the word “hero,” some occupations come to my mind: teachers, doctors, firefighters and first responders are a few. But now, I can confidently add “librarian” to that list, and it’s all thanks to Mychal Threets. Threets is a librarian from Fairfield, California, who worked at the Solano County Library — the library that he used to go to as a child. He worked his way up from shelving books to library supervisor. The reason I wrote “worked” is because he no longer does.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | AJ Newth |Zoe Leone
On Feb. 25, a Twitch stream went live outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., sharing video footage of a man in fatigues who would identify himself as Aaron Bushnell, a cyber-defense operations specialist with the 531st Intelligence Support Squadron of the U.S. Air Force. “I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” Bushnell stated as he made his walk to the embassy. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone |Lillian Curtin
March is National Kidney Month. For the past three years, I’ve advocated for patients with kidney disease, and you should too. My journey into advocacy started when I received a diagnosis that would change my life. In 2021, I discovered that I was part of the Americans who are impacted by a kidney disease. I spent my childhood feeling weaker than other kids, and wasn’t able to keep up physically with them.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
quchronicle.com | Zoe Leone |Gina Lorusso
Ariana Grande’s “Eternal Sunshine” took me on an emotional journey, navigating the realms of coping with the past and embracing the present. Grande released her seventh studio album on March 8, in which she documents the obstacles of her failed marriage with Dalton Gomez and the excitement of her budding relationship with “Wicked” co-star Ethan Slater. It’s evident that Grande used this album as a diary to create some of the most beautifully written and transparent songs of her career.
