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Buzzsaw has been around for 10 years; questioning authority, mocking culture, reviewing bands you’ve never heard of and pointing out hypocrisy at Ithaca College. You could call it an institution.

These are the first Comments (or letters from the editors), printed in the first two issues. From Volume 1, Issue 1: “If you don’t treat your baby right, she’ll come see me some lonely night.” -Steve Earle, “Graveyard Shift” For those of you who have tired of what the Ithaca area has to offer in [...]

By Nina Boutsikaris I pump gas and watch what I think is a heron rise out of a flooded field across the salt-stained highway. Blades of grass poke up in all directions, brown and folded, collapsing over each other with resignation. Winter in these forgotten towns, Schooner and Lisle, Georgetown and Liberty, winter here is [...]

Follow the link below to read the Buzzcuts for the Denial Issue

How Teach for America is bridging the achievement gap By Angela Durand Imagine not being able to read or write. Imagine your zip code determining whether or not you would attend a well-funded public school. Imagine knowing that there’s a fifty-fifty chance you might not graduate high school. For 13 million children in America, this [...]

Then Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood The first broadcast of Mister Rogers’ premiered in 1968, though we all watched it growing up, even until its final episode in 2001. The show’s simplicity was quintessential and was a definite appeal to the show. We remember the show for Mister Rogers’ changes between cardigans and suit jackets and for [...]

2008 marked the 10th anniversary of pioneering drone-doom band Sunn O))) –10 years since founding members Stephen O’Malley (ex-Khanate) and Greg Anderson (ex-Goatsnake, Southern Lord Records) released the thick slab of rumbling Earth-inspired doom known as The Grimmrobe Demos. To celebrate this historic event, the two embarked on a four-city U.S. tour, playing material exclusively [...]

Santi White is no stranger to the music industry. She has worked for years as a producer and songwriter, writing lyrics for pop superstars such as Ashlee Simpson and Lily Allen, as well as collaborating with Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. Her debut album as Santogold has shown that she [...]

Chuck Palahniuk’s work has not been adapted since David Fincher’s legendary Fight Club in 1999, so director Clark Gregg took a risk when he decided to undertake Palahniuk’s first bestseller, Choke, released by Fox Searchlight this year. In Palahniuk’s Choke, Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a casual sex addict, spends his time earning money in unusual ways, [...]

By Rhiannon Marino A thin beam of car headlight slipped around the edge of the heavy curtain that stood in its way. It fell across the mound of blanket that lay beneath the windowsill, tracing the folds of woven fabric, searching for life. An eyelid fluttered open from deep beneath the shadows of pillows and [...]