Author: Isabella Skinner

Campus

Fun activities planned for Del Mar students before finals

Isabella Skinner

From Monday, Dec. 1 through Wednesday, Dec. 3, every day from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Student Leadership and Campus Life will be holding end-of-semester “Pre-Exam Jam” events.  On Dec. 1, students can take a break and relax with farm animals and free pizza at Mimi’s Mini Farm between GAMB and Venters Business Building. The free pizza and drinks will be located in Venters’ first floor atrium. On Dec. 2, students can head to the third floor of Venters in Room VB 310 to the Student Success Center and de-stress with the Counseling Center and more free pizza and drinks.…

Entertainment

Of this issue: holiday edition

Isabella Skinner

Phoebe Bridgers, 2022 EP Best Song: “If We Make It Through December” Worst Song: “Christmas Song” Underrated Hit: “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night (feat. Fiona Apple & Matt Berninger)” Overall: “So Much Wine” is a six-song Christmas EP containing covers of classic Christmas songs. While Bridgers is usually known for her lyricism, she makes the covers of these songs shine. Each song is a typically mellow Christmas song, and I enjoyed that. It kept the essence of her music without her having written the songs herself. The title track “So Much Wine” has the best production, but “If We Make It…

Campus

Texas History lecture to take place, will be given by Texas Historian

Isabella Skinner

Loyola University professor and Texas historian Dr. Benjamin H. Johnson will give a lecture on “the stories we tell about Texas” at Del Mar on Nov. 6. The lecture begins at 6 p.m. in the Venters Business Building on Heritage Campus, Room VB100. Johnson was born in Houston and has lived here for a decade of his adult life, despite traveling abroad and across the U.S. From all these experiences, he learned the uniqueness of Texas’s mix of modern and outsized industries and communities that make Texas the state that is. “I love Texas and have spent most of my…

Entertainment

Of This Issue

Isabella Skinner

ALBUM ‘Man’s Best Friend’ (2025) Sabrina Carpenter Best Song: “When Did You Get Hot?” Worst Song: “House Tour” Underrated Hit: “We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night” Overall: I generally did not like this album. The sound – synths, airy singing, and rhythmic choruses – is something Carpenter has been doing for a decade. And it isn’t her best work. It seems that after the success of “Short & Sweet (2024),” she’s leaning towards a more mature sound with innuendos stacked into bubbly pop. The only two songs that don’t fall into this trap are “When Did You Get Hot?”…

Intramurals

Del Mar Turkey Bowl is making a come back 

Isabella Skinner

On Friday, Oct. 24, the Del Mar College Turkey Bowl will return for the first time since 2015. It will take place at 12:30 p.m. on the Heritage Campus Kinesiology Track. Valdar’s Vikings and the Helm Holders will compete in a four-quarter flag football game to determine the winner. According to Margot Sorrell, who has served on the Turkey Bowl planning committee since the first game in 2008, the bowl has had a long history and a few different names. It began as a game between the English and Math departments and continued until 2010. Then, in 2012, it became…

Campus

Memoirist writes of fear and violence against women

Isabella Skinner

Writer Jody Keisner will be on campus next week to give a reading from her new book, “Under My Bed and Other Essays.”  The Del Mar Culture Programs and English and Philosophy Department are sponsoring the event at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9 on Heritage Campus. The literary reading is open to the public and will be in the Coles Building Reading Lab, Room CB119. Keisner is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Editor-in-Chief of “The Linden Review.” She also writes for AARP’s “The Girlfriend,” and her essay “Runaway Mother” was named a…

Sports

Conquer the Coast bike ride hosted by United Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce

Isabella Skinner

On Saturday, Sept. 20, the United Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce held its annual Conquer the Coast bike ride in downtown Corpus Christi. Del Mar College Testing Center employee Teresa Janice, 62, competed in the race. “It was an exhausting and challenging moment for me because I had to maintain my biking endurance for more than 20 miles.   At the beginning, it was so easy, but after 10 miles, I started to feel the tiredness and soreness building up in my system,” Janice said. The bike ride has three divisions: 10 miles, 21 miles, or 69 miles. The 10-mile…

Entertainment

Off the issue

Isabella Skinner

ALBUM ‘Tell Me That It’s Over’ (2022) Wallows Best Song: “Marvelous” Worst Song: “Hurts Me” Underrated Hit: “Guitar Romantic Search Adventure” Overall: A standout album from Wallows, “Tell Me That It’s Over” ranks the lowest on streaming for the indie-rock band. The album follows a similar sound to the others by this band, utilizing similar guitars and drums, while also having an interesting effect on vocals to make them sound almost fuzzy. Although the songs are easy to listen to and fun to have playing in the background, some fail to stand out against other songs of the same genre…

Sports

No Fear, No Doubt: Alvarez’s path from injury to Astros Glory begins in Corpus Christi

Isabella Skinner

During the week of Aug 19-24, Astros slugger and outfielder Yordan Alvarez played four games on the Corpus Christi Hooks roster against the Frisco RoughRiders while rehabilitating his fractured hand.             On the Tuesday, Aug. 19 game, Alvarez landed two hits but no runs. He didn’t play on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Hooks won 4-2, and two of those runs were scored by Alvarez, who landed three hits.  On Friday, the Hooks won 12-4, and he scored a run with zero hits. He didn’t play on Saturday either, but on Sunday, the Corpus Christi slammed Frisco 12-5 with one run…