Bringing the dream back to pop music

For all the disdain a university community might throw at pop musicians, these two, or any of the four band members, are not shallow thinkers.

By Kemble Walker | Dec 1 07:39 pm ET

Restless Nights: Following the leader, learning how to learn

Getting close to the stars might be all we need to really show our respects.

By Kemble Walker | Nov 17 08:46 pm ET

‘Student Sounds, Sound Students’: Postcrypt and WBAR collaboration explores sound mind and sound body

Postcrypt and WBAR collaboration explores the sound mind, the sound body, and the spirituality of audio communication.

By Kemble Walker | Nov 17 08:03 pm ET

Restless Nights: Dressing up a drunkard doesn’t make her desirable

The costumes were tiring to look at, too much and too obvious. We looked across the room to some pushed-up superhero breasts and laughed.

By Kemble Walker | Nov 3 08:49 pm ET

Restless Nights: Becoming a philosopher is extracurricular

A chance encounter with a hustler and his story of playful banter with a child leads to a vivifying epiphany.

By Kemble Walker | Oct 20 09:04 pm ET

Restless Nights: The essentially inessential subtleties of a party

I was introduced as we walked in the first door.

“This is my friend, Kem.”

I held a vague, brief hand and someone’s eyes looked over my shoulder.

Emboldened with abandon, I strolled around the corner into a spacious cliché, a smoky room that made me spread my hands in gleeful crucifixion—Hello, Party!

There was nobody I knew. My hands felt for a drink, a cigarette, before my mind decided to instead sidle me to the tall back of a couch where I leaned, nonchalant, with a vacant smile, waiting for a welcome gaze to cross my own so I might begin a conversation.

By Kemble Walker | Oct 6 08:53 pm ET

Restless Nights: Rolling deep doesn’t mean rolling toward enlightenment

Electric Zoo offers all the usual suspects-like hippies, hipsters, and ravers-and then those who go so far as to claim that drugs are the reason for it all.

By Kemble Walker | Sep 22 09:25 pm ET

Restless Nights: Stronger bonds than random hook-ups formed on nights out

It made me wonder, for the first time since elementary school, how you actually make friends. There was no one to introduce me, no one to show me around.

By Kemble Walker | Apr 21 08:37 pm ET

Restless Nights: Blowing smoke over the city with friends is all a Friday needs

Good friends might go their own ways, but end up back together at the end of the night.

By Kemble Walker | Apr 7 10:36 pm ET

Restless Nights: Living one day, one identity, and one adventure at a time

Charged anticipation for a night out during Spring Break leads to philosophical musings on college life.

By Kemble Walker | Mar 24 08:09 pm ET