Halle Keighton Photo Editor “Divide” by Ed Sheeran  The lyrics of every song on this album are beautiful. When I listen to this album, one minute I am dancing and the next minute I am crying. “Worn...

In October 2016, coed a capella group Enharmonix submitted an online audition video to the International Championship of Collegiate A Capella and were invited to compete in two more rounds. Enharmonix...

Appalachian State’s Steely Pan Steel Band played a free concert on March 26 at 3 p.m. in the Schaefer Center for Performing Arts. Steely Pan is composed of 22 students and director Byron Hedgepeth, an...

Musicians come from different backgrounds, whether they have been singing with a guitar their whole life, they stumbled onto music or they have been classically trained throughout their education. Several...

Phillip Martin is a local gospel rapper who uses his poetic art form to convey his message of hope at Appalachian State University. “My message is to promote God and to get to non-believers who...

Highway 194, going toward Elk Knob State Park, is a winding road that takes the driver out of the town of Boone and deeper into the mountains, through woods and around sharp curves, alongside weathered...

Bugs, despite turning some stomachs in western culture, have been a staple of the human diet since humans were mere hominids, and are still a prevalent food source around the world today. Julie Lesnik,...

The Annex, which took the place of Klondike, is the newest addition to the trailer bars and an extension of TApp Room that offers a music venue, arcade games and an additional bar. “We needed...

Hidden away on the bottom floor of Plemmons Student Union across from Crossroads lies a small, student-run art gallery. The Looking Glass Gallery provides a space to showcase art created by Appalachian...

The students in Appalachian State’s interior design program are tired of being compared to HGTV decorators. In reality, the study and practice of interior design involves much more than simply choosing...

Horizon Zero Dawn, a long-anticipated, open world role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with mechanical beasts, was released on Feb. 28 as a Playstation 4 exclusive. The game revolves...

Local bands from Appalachian State and Boone came out to compete for the title of top band and to enjoy each other’s music at Legend’s annual event, Battle of the Bands, on Feb. 23. The competition...