By Christian Steiner The only injustice superior to that of Leonardo DiCaprio never receiving an Oscar is the misrepresentation (or lack thereof) of minorities in Hollywood. For the second year in a row the Academy is being accused of whitewashing the Oscars. No nominee (actor, director, writer) is from an ethnicity that isn’t white. Spike…
By Christian Steiner & Kaitlyn Pujols A little over a year ago, The Harbinger hosted their first #ISISCrisis twitter chat. Now we are on our second outing with the same hashtag, raising lively discussion on many of the same issues from a year ago: vetting of refugees, military action, should there be boots on the…
By Christian Steiner The New England Patriots are the reigning Super Bowl champions and have received the Lombardi trophy three times in a row. They are known for their winning streak and their win against the Indianapolis Colts during the AFC championship of last year’s playoffs seemed no different from their others. However, during this…
One of the last images drawn by Charlie Hebdo’s editor, Charb, satirizing Muslim terrorists. By Christian Steiner Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine that makes fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims and themselves. Two extremists entered the building of the magazine company in Paris, France and open fired on those inside; it cost 12 employees their…
By Christian Steiner “Your health is your wealth,” quoted Nancy Handley as she plans to abide to her own rules of remaining fit after finalizing the last of her 44 years of teaching in physical education on Wednesday November 26, 2014.
This month, the NFL has played off like dramatized soap opera or even a session of Grand Theft Auto – there have been more arrested players, plea deals, underdogs, and more controversies than a M. Night Shymalan movie.
Three Marvel movies, two reboots, and two sequels highlight this contradicting summer of original unoriginal films. The beauty of this summer’s lies in the writers taking a premise that isn’t completely original and making it their own in the way it is executed (see Edge of Tomorrow.) Comic-Book Galore: Captain America 2 the Winter Soldier-…
The Miami Heat are notorious for their bandwagon fans, who hopped on when LeBron joined the team and during four years of trips to the championship. The Heat’s fanbase most certainly did grow quite a bit in the years after 2010.
*Electronic Entertainment Expo’s (E3) “big three”: Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo (The Father the Son and our Childhood Spirit.) This year’s E3 was quite a filler for our nerdy mecca; after last year, a year of next-generation consoles, this year was just more of what we already knew was coming: more “console” and “timed” exclusives, with words…
The sequel that was only made to maintain rights to the Amazing Spider-Man cash cow is upon us. Surprisingly enough, the first Amazing Spider-Man film was a pretty well-regarded film with great character development. Andrew Garfield portrayed Spider-Man better than anyone has on the big screen. We do still love you, Tobey, but Andrew is…