Content by Andrew Reilly

Wryly Reilly: Goodbyes might not be my area of expertise, but bear with me one last time

May 1, 2012

“Comes a time when you’re driftin’, comes a time when you settle down.”

Wryly Reilly: Can everyone just calm the (bleep) down? A plea for sanity in a hyper-politicized world

April 26, 2012

Nothing exciting ever happens at Virginia Tech. We’re never treated to spontaneous, poorly handled coach firings or campus-wide pandemonium over a lingerie sale with music.

Wryly Reilly: Love me maybe — An ode to popular music’s guiltiest pleasures

April 18, 2012

On one of the balmy Blacksburg Sundays that have become surprisingly commonplace this semester, two friends and I set off for a lazy afternoon at the New River.

Wryly Reilly — The geeks shall inherit the Earth: Living in the Golden Age of nerdiness

April 11, 2012

The most buzzed-about show on TV in 2012 isn’t a police procedural or military drama.

Wryly Reilly: Browbeaten — How University of Kentucky’s Anthony Davis gave me graduation anxiety

April 4, 2012

Just when it looked like college sports was headed toward its bleakest year in recent history, the NCAA tournament came to the rescue with a Cinderella story for the ages.

Wryly Reilly: The myth of American exceptionalism

March 28, 2012

Imagine a glee club with 196 diverse, well-groomed teenagers preparing to sing rock band Asia’s classic “Heat of the Moment.”

Wryly Reilly: Step aside ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Twilight Saga’ and make room for the new kid in town — ‘The Hunger Games’

March 21, 2012

"Young adult literary fad.”

Wryly Reilly: Girls gone child — Spring break and the devolution of the American college student

March 14, 2012

The scene was straight out of a bad ’80s comedy: Bikini-clad coeds bounced around a barside pool as employees poured shots in their mouths. And screams of “spring break!” carried throughout the tourist trap tackiness of the Cozumel, Mexico Senor Frogs.

Star-spangled comedy: Washington-based political comedy troupe to perform at the Lyric Thursday

March 12, 2012

American politics is the gift that keeps on giving for comedians, even more so during an election.

Wryly Reilly: Neil deGrasse Tyson and his quest to bring the sciences back to the forefront of America

February 29, 2012

There’s a striking moment in the movie “Margin Call,” a dramatization of Wall Street panic on the eve of the financial crisis, when an employee is questioned about his educational qualifications.