Content on Wrylyreilly:
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: 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.
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.
February 22, 2012
In an election year when pundits have gleefully abandoned the “S.S. Sanity” and candidates are being knocked off like Agatha Christie characters, one underdog has risen above the fracas to claim, at least statistically, the frontrunner position for the Republican nomination.
How I learned to stop worrying, overlook the cynicism and come to love the ‘Linsanity’
February 15, 2012
One of my fondest childhood memories is of watching “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and being awed by the idea that life held possibilities beyond my comprehension.
Wryly Reilly: The sad lament of a Washington, D.C. sports fan
February 8, 2012
Has it been a rough year for Boston fans or what?
February 1, 2012
Like the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park,” Hollywood has lumbered through different evolutionary periods.