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May 20, 2019
Cigarettes? Yuck. Cigars? Even yuckier… As the kids these day would say. Teen tobacco use was at an all-time low with only 10.4 percent of youths smoking in 2017, Truth Initiative reports. This marked a 45 percent decline since 2011, when 18.6 percent of teenagers smoked cigarettes.
How did we get here? When did smoking stop being cool, despite it remaining an over romanticized aesthetic?
May 17, 2019
Calling all contributors! If you are a writer, artist, photographer, or musician interested in having your work featured in the May 2019 issue of The Burgundy Zine, you’ve come to the right place.
May 9, 2019
Memes are the currency of the world wide web. Love them or hate them, they’ve fostered global connections and raised an entire generation.
May 8, 2019
Tea is more than a drink. The word embodies various flavors that give our tongues a taste of culture throughout history around the world.
April 30, 2019
Oh, stoners. You and your hazy concert venues, passionate nature walks, couch-locked TV binges, forbidden munchies, reggae music, and overwhelmingly naive apathy for conventional responsibility.
Where would we be without you?
April 20, 2019
Cannabis, marijuana, flower, pot, gonja, green, grass, herb – however you prefer to refer to reefer – is a mild hallucinogenic drug that has been cultivated and used as far back as 500 BC.
March 31, 2019
Between the parting of your lips and secured between your teeth is nothing but pure bliss – or what some might call a “cancer stick.”
Cigarettes are more than just a quick hit of dopamine and death sentence. They are a timeless aesthetic, romanticized and over done until the very end.
March 14, 2019
Ah, pi (Π, π). The delicious 16th-letter of the Greek alphabet and the infamous, endless, irrational mathematical constant – also known as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, 3.14159.
Mar 14th is the annual observance of the 4000-year old constant, as the date “3/14” are the first three digits of pi, “3.14”. That leaves us with just one question that, unlike the question “how many digits are in pi?” actually has an answer: how does one celebrate Pi Day?
February 18, 2019
Presidents’ Day is a national holiday that has been federally observed on the third Monday in Feb by the United States since 1885. Schools and financial institutions across the country close their doors in honor of those who have served as the face of our nation.
February 11, 2019
56 years ago today, the renowned poet Sylvia Plath took her life. In honor of the poet, the following article is an essay written for an English class semester that compares the works of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath to further understand how mental illness may have influenced their art.