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Parenting while studying: the realities of a college student with a child during the shelter-in-place order
By Allison Harris on April 22, 2020
The changes UMKC students have faced from Kansas City’s current shelter-in-place order have been hard to deal with. Many students are without campus, housing or...
Album Review: Grimes’ ‘Miss Anthropocene’
By Allison Harris on February 25, 2020
Canadian artist and producer Grimes is a bit of a weirdo. To create her critically acclaimed 2012 album, Visions, she infamously shut herself in her...
November albums to keep an ear out for
By Allison Harris on November 8, 2019
FKA twigs — “MAGDALENE” (Nov. 8) U.K. pop surrealist FKA twigs will release her second studio album, ”MAGDALENE,” next month, following her 2015 debut album,...
Op-ed: Snoop Dogg’s hypocrisy on women
By Allison Harris on October 21, 2019
Snoop Dogg, adorned in a University of Kansas basketball jersey and a pair of sunglasses, shouts at the DJ to “gimme somethin’ for the ladies…...
Concert Review: Dorian Electra
By Allison Harris on October 8, 2019
It’s Saturday night in Kansas City, and all the most glittery, most online, most tight-pants-wearing young people are in one spot: the Stray Cat Film...
Album review: ‘Charli’ displays growth, innovation
By Allison Harris on September 16, 2019
Charli XCX wants to take you with her into the future. “Charli,” her self-titled studio album, is an experimental electronic pop adventure and her most...

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Parenting while studying: the realities of a college student with a child during the shelter-in-place order