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Death Note: What if you could stop bad things from happening?

With the recent Connecticut shooting it seems just as one tragedy dies down in this country another starts. Every day it’s another story like Trayvon Martin, or the shooter at The Dark Knight Rises. It’s gotten to the point that a common sentiment I hear among people is that they don’t watch the news because they don’t want to hear about all the bad things that are happening. So what if you could stop them from happening? For high school student Light Yagami, that opportunity is exactly what he is given.

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Movies, Media and Memes: Thoughts by Dr. Deshpande

Dr. Shekhar Deshpande has a Ph.D in Communications, and is a professor and director of the Media and Communications programs at Arcadia University. With interests in film studies, world cinema, visual culture and cultural studies, we at Loco Mag knew he would be a very interesting subject, so I decided to interview him about some of his own personal opinions and “favorites.”

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“Saying a lot with as little as possible”: An Interview with Willy Mason

Starting in music at a young age, country-folk singer-songwriter Willy Mason has been in and around music for the majority of his young life. Releasing his debut album, Where the Humans Eat, in 2004 and his sophomore album, If the Ocean Gets Rough, in 2007, Willy spent much of the early years of his career continuously touring and bringing his music to people around the world. In 2007, he took a well-deserved break. But now, he is back, fitting in perfectly with the current nu-folk craze and the likes of The Lumineers and recent touring partners Mumford and Sons.

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Interview with Best-Selling Author Tracey Garvis Graves

Author Tracey Garvis Graves took her novel, On the Island, through the journey of self-publishing, only to see it become a best-selling hit. It follows Anna, a young teacher, and TJ, a student recovering from cancer, as they travel to his family’s vacation home for a summer of tutoring. However, when their plane crashes, they are left stranded in the middle of the Maldives’ twelve hundred islands, most of which are uninhabited.