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The Best Era of Television is Long Gone

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BY: HANNAH WEST, STAFF WRITER Graphic: Joseph DeBell Sitcoms are not as important to pop culture as they once were. There are a few contributing factors: first, a lack of quality. The new sitcoms being released don’t compare to the old. The characters used to be iconic; there is no modern-day Michael Scott or Ron…

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Bonaventure Basketball Hits National Television

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Seniors Michael Seitz, Joseph Gombatto, Thomas Reilly, Eric Bernhardt, Jimmy McKeown, Jace Frazier and Jack Gombatto tour Times Square prior to the team’s NIT matchup at Madison Square Garden Tucker Reilly/ The Bona Venture BY: TUCKER REILLY, ADVISORY EDITOR St. Bonaventure University’s basketball program is no stranger to the national stage.  In addition to games in the…

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Marvel Studios only cares about the money

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BY TYLER SMITH, STAFF WRITER For many theaters, tickets to Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” sold out in seconds. The 2018 superhero film culminated 10 years of world-building and character development within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  That same anticipation cannot be felt with the way the studio distributes its content today. Marvel crams too many…

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Second season puts dark twist on drama

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      A calm opening quickly led to chaos in the second season premiere of Riverdale. In the season one finale, viewers are left with Archie’s dad, Fred, who was shot by a masked man with green eyes. Betty, Veronica and Jughead are all safely in their homes while Archie, without a driver’s license,…

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Gilmore Girls: A good-enough review

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By Lian Bunny Photo Editor Writer Amy Sherman-Palladino stayed true to her Stars Hollow roots when creating Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, which joined Netflix last Friday. As a huge fan since middle school, my biggest fear was that the new series would stray too much from the original. But within five minutes,…

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Netflix trumps television

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Netflix: A utopia of endless movie selections and binge-worthy shows. Waiting for shows to come on cable TV seems like a foreign concept to me now. The amazing thing about Netflix is that I can sit down and watch any episode of Law and Order: SVU, or two, or three, anytime I want. Shows like…

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YouTube is the best new media

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I don’t watch TV. I barely watch Hulu or Netflix. When I want to watch my favorite show, I go straight to YouTube. YouTube is an evolving landscape that is constantly updating. Every day there are new episodes of some of the most popular shows. I myself have subscribed to 115 different channels and watch…

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Students react to loss of cable TV in living spaces

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By Rachel Konieczny News Assignment Editor Bonaventure students said they are encountering decreased WiFi bandwidth and noticeable cable changes through Time Warner as students moved back to campus for the beginning of the academic year. Talk of these changes began last semester with the university’s overall goal of more than tripling the Internet bandwidth strength,…

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Unique television drama comes to an end

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By Taylor Nigrelli Digital Media Strategist “Mad Men” has never been a show for the common man. It has always catered to a certain audience. To the type of person who appreciates truly brilliant dialogue. To the kind of person who wants a plot that is both interesting and not absurd. To a person who’s…

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Better watch “Breaking Bad” spinoff

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The two-night AMC premiere of the new television drama “Better Call Saul” kicked off on Feb. 8. Raking in a total of 6.9 million viewers on the first night, the series has already broken the record for the largest cable audience of a premiere episode. Critics expect the show to have immense success. Perhaps the…

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All that and a bag of chips

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By Kailyn Jennings Staff Writer   You open Pandora and which station do you choose? Summer Hits of the 90s is an obvious choice…if you’re a true 90s kid. What’s up with our obsession with the 90s? What epitomized the decade and made it so memorable to us? People within the Bona Bubble have the…

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