Main Street Magazine Spring '23

1 Photo by Kayleigh Ferik
4 Grounds for the Groove
5 A Letter From the Editor - Ember Nevins
8 Trash 2 Treasure - Haley Parker
10 And I Write - Daisy Young
12 My Next Poem W ill Be About You - Caroline
Hanna
14 Playing the Game - Brooklyn Pratt
16 Photography by Molly Maynard
18 Stranger Thinking - Mandy Rosenberg
20 A Meditation on the Past - Keri Stewart
21 A Day's Worth of Dirt - Erica Faucher
22 Photography by Nolan Juneau
24 Artwork by Ember Nevins
26 If These Walls Could Talk, They'd Scream -
Lindsey Arnold
28 Chicks, Chickens, Roosters - Molly Kent
29 Photography by Dana Morrison
30 Wonder Woman or Jimmy Beam's W ife -
Sable Quinn
32 At the Adult Superstore - Esther White
34 Photography by T inotenda Duche
36 Grunge in Global Cinema: How Dirt and
Destruction Function in F ilm - Emily Hughes
40 Using Ghost in the Shell to Pose the
Question: What Does it Mean to be Human? -
Owen Mayer
42 How Star Wars Killed the Movies - Megan
Deane
44 Photography by Matti Adams
46 Stop the Scrobble: Last.FM and Social
Media Self-Commodification - Lilly Cassely
Table of Contents
49 Relic of the Future: An Unwound Album
Review - Sean Lafond
50 Local Soundwaves: Kate Possi, Gollylagging,
Dog Lips, Ick, and Cozy Throne - Catie Molloy
and Cori W intle-Newell
58 The Gateway: The Lore of Doom and
Stoner Metal - Gwen Hultquist
62 Through the Gates to the Underground -
Katelyn Clark
64 Work: The Philosophies of Maxo Kream -
Harry Hawkins
68 Artwork by Cade Velleman
70 You're a Sheep. Here's How to Become a
Wolf - Nick Schoenfield
72 T ikTok is Rotting our Brains: Why are we
relinquishing hours on end to this app, and what
is it doing to us? - Grace Libucha
76 The Future of Creation - Ty Hetrick
80 Waving Culture: Girl Hi, or Girl Bye? -
Matthew Kurr
82 Photography by Se Choi
84 Mankind - Cori W intle-Newell
88 The Ones that Last - Connor Ryan
90 Tales of the Teenage Dirtbag - Rachel
P incince
92 Photography by Katie Clayton
94 Graffiti: Art, Vandalism, or Subliminal
Threat? - Doug Rodoski
98 A Brief History of the Beanie - Cade
Velleman
99 MSM Quiz
100 Artwork by Megan Thibeault and Ben
Hanscom
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