Category: Culture

Wearing the wrong shade all along…

Fourth Estate editors test their color palette BY NYLAH MITCHELL, COPY EDITOR  As the seasons change and colors become brighter, it doesn’t mean the trending colors of the season are suited for everyone. The best way to understand which colors…

Celebrating Chopin: Music for the hopeful

Pianist shares a powerful performance at the National Philharmonic on the composer’s birthday BY VIVIANA SMITH, SENIOR STAFF REPORTER A day before Polish composer Frédéric Chopin’s 215th birthday, hundreds gathered in the wooded orchestra hall of the National Philharmonic at…

Restaurant Review: NED’s New England Deck

My first lobster roll and why Ned’s made it unforgettable BY LIBBY BONDI, STAFF WRITER Just off Fairfax Boulevard stands a little slice of Cape Cod-style paradise. Ned’s New England Deck, founded in 2023, is a maritime haven of seafood…

Cheyenne DeGross finding her new love of pickleball 

How pickleball reignited this Mason student’s love for the university BY BENJAMIN SPITLER, STAFF WRITER  “I think that’s one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make in my life… giving up the sport I love.” For many, the college…

Exploring Toria Jewelry with Victoria Demario

An inside look into a Mason student’s jewelry business  BY SARENA MARRISA SOHAN, STAFF WRITER Styled with Toria Jewelry, junior Victoria “Tori” Demario met me at the Johnson Center to share more about her jewelry business. Demario, a self-taught jeweler…

Five ways to blossom your spring wardrobe

Copy editor, Nylah, shares a few ways to dress in time for the best season of the year  BY NYLAH MITCHELL, COPY EDITOR  Gone are the days of snow, ice and frost. Here enter the days of blooming flowers, sunshine…