Welcome to the Thresher's A&E section
New students, you are holding in your hands the very first issue of the Rice Thresher to be published this year. And, if you're reading this, that means you've turned to the best section in the entire paper: the Arts & Entertainment section, edited by yours truly.Every week, you'll find A&E packed with the latest movie reviews, college theater and show reviews, articles about awesome restaurant and dessert joints, the occasional map of where to find good food close to campus - like this week's late-night food map - and a weekly list of nifty events that are happening outside the hedges (The Weekly Scene). Occasionally we also run semi-regular columns on music or movies or topics that wouldn't normally fit in other sections.
Ultimately, where the news and sports sections deal with events pertaining to Rice, A&E is your connection to Houston and things happening outside the hedges.
How can you get in on all this hot, sweaty action, you ask? Believe it or not, it's actually really easy. I'm always looking for new writers and reviewers to write content for A&E, and getting started is as simple as sending an e-mail to thresher-arts@rice.edu. Better yet, we pay you real money to write for the Thresher. As in cold, hard cash. Not to mention your name goes in the paper and your articles get read every week by more than 6,000 people who pick up a Thresher in and around campus and by the countless visitors to our website at www.ricethresher.org. And no previous journalistic experience is necessary. In fact, when I started at the Thresher as a wee sophomore, I had absolutely zero experience working for a paper.
So even if you just have a fleeting interest in possibly writing for the Thresher about cool movies or food or video games, shoot me an e-mail at thresher-arts@rice.edu and I'll get you started with additional information. I'm also searching for someone to replace me as section editor soon, since I'm graduating in May. If you'd be interested in that, send me an email as well.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you all and also providing some quality reading for everyone in the coming school year.
Joe Dwyer is a Wiess College senior and Thresher A&E editor.
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