Every holiday has its hallmarks. What would Thanksgiving be without the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, or the Fourth of July without cookouts and fireworks? For Halloween, one of the many hallmarks of the holiday is horror films. Horror films always make the Halloween season special, whether they’re new releases in theaters that everyone is […]
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October is officially here, and that means that for those who spend all year looking forward to the Halloween season, it’s finally time to get involved in some fun and spooky seasonal activities around the community. A local favorite that is sure to give you the chills is the Historic Frederick Ghost Tour, a nighttime […]
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After talking about the anxiety induced from his first trip to the disabled list since May 2014, Zach Britton fixed a smile and shifted down memory lane. The last time the Orioles All-Star closer played for the Frederick Keys was 2009, back when the left-hander was still a starter. His catcher that season — when […]
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR I am elated to bring you the third volume of The Commuter since we brought the print edition back last year. Though I wasn’t involved in the making of the first edition in May of 2016, I’m sure previous editor-in-chief Brian Taylor would agree with me: We’ve definitely endured our lumps and […]
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In case you haven’t heard, the Washington Valor — D.C.’s fledgling Arena Football League franchise — made its debut on Friday night at the Verizon Center, and dubbing it as a success would put it mildly. It was an auspicious spectacle, the equivalent to a walkoff home run, because if it hadn’t delivered in the […]
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A fledgling journalist to the national reporting scene turned a corner and encountered a pack of reporters fenced around Villanova’s Jay Wright, rattling off questions to the reigning Naismith Coach of the Year and national champion shot-caller. My 36-hour basketball jamboree at the NCAA tournament was in the closing minutes, and in fact, […]
Continue ReadingThe pensive but eager teenager peered out the tiny airplane window, watching everything he ever knew vanish beneath the clouds. For the first five minutes, Bilal Hassane Souley’s upbringing — all 18 years of it — flashed before his eyes as he flew out of Diori Hamani International Airport of Niamey, Niger.Later, he recalled this moment the most agonizing 300 seconds of his life. But as Hassane Souley peered down at the fading city he would forever call home, he knew boarding a flight halfway aro
Continue ReadingIn a world filled with glitzy technology and fancy analytics, we often overlook the human element. The industrialized perception has molded millennials into a generation defined by numbers. Age is the scale for maturity, height and weight draw hasty judgement and the agonized GPA is supposed to measure an individual’s intelligence. But where does the human disposition […]
Continue ReadingIt probably suffocated you to the state of insanity. You couldn’t thumb through social media, read the newspaper, watch your routine television shows, or even carry on a conversation without it coming up. Surely, you’re fed up with this year’s presidential election. I don’t blame you if so, but stick with me. Any election cycle […]
Continue ReadingLook around you, take it in. Just look, please, just look. Peak out the window, step outside; marvel at whatever nature is presenting. The golden splotched tree leaves fluttering in the breeze, cars passing by on the freeway, animals grazing a swatch of pastureland. Maybe it’s none of those. But you don’t need me to […]
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