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MCC student leads makeup design for Julius Caesar theatre production

MCC brings back marching band competition

Residents push back on Mesa PD’s 16-year-long agreement with ICE

Chandler Museum expands Japanese American exhibit

Send Me Anything / Children’s Playground, Manzanar, California; archival pigment print on rag paper. Photo by Dean Terasaki. Letters courtesy of the T.K. Pharmacy Collection, Densho.

Chandler Museum debuts exhibit featuring Japanese American internee letters through photographer’s lens

Mesa Councilmember Julie Spilsbury embraces a supporter at an Election Day watch party on Nov. 4, 2025. (Photo by Gwendolyn Owen/The Legend)

Turning Point-backed candidate defeats Mesa councilmember in recall election

Turning Point USA backs recall effort against Mesa councilwoman over homeless housing, Harris endorsement

MCC hosts zine workshop for World Mental Health Day to help students de-stress

Federal work study change affects MCC students. Here’s how

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Category: Culture

Netflix’s suspenseful ‘Rebecca’ still won’t be this Halloween’s favorite
Culture

Netflix’s suspenseful ‘Rebecca’ still won’t be this Halloween’s favorite

Jordan Jones 10/26/2020

Netflix’s spooky “Rebecca” arrives in time for Halloween, but doesn’t entirely hit the mark.

Poignant and timely ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ captivates
Culture

Poignant and timely ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ captivates

Jordan Jones 10/19/2020

Netflix’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” expertly navigates an important piece of activism history.

‘Yellow Rose’ inspires beauty and empathy when we need it
Culture

‘Yellow Rose’ inspires beauty and empathy when we need it

Jordan Jones 10/12/2020

The coming-of-age film captivates with an undocumented girl’s heartbreak and music.

‘The Boys in the Band’ falls short with one flat note
Culture

‘The Boys in the Band’ falls short with one flat note

Jordan Jones 10/06/2020

“The Boys in the Band” might run circles around representation, but its characters fall short.

Enola outshines her older brother in the feminist “Enola Holmes”
Culture

Enola outshines her older brother in the feminist “Enola Holmes”

Jordan Jones 10/05/2020

Feminist coming-of-age “Enola Holmes” brings Sherlock’s younger sister into the spotlight.

‘The Devil All the Time’ delivers dark, gritty complexity
Culture

‘The Devil All the Time’ delivers dark, gritty complexity

Jordan Jones 09/25/2020

Netflix’s “The Devil All the Time” elegantly tells a depressing, dark and complex story.

Diverse and sentimental ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’ breaks the rom-com mold
Culture

Diverse and sentimental ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’ breaks the rom-com mold

Jordan Jones 09/19/2020

Girl meets boy, boy leaves girl, girl keeps memento, and girl meets the right boy.

Christopher Nolan twists time again in “Tenet”
Culture

Christopher Nolan twists time again in “Tenet”

Jordan Jones 09/14/2020

Inverted objects and cinematic moments make “Tenet” a film to see in theaters–if you can.

“The New Mutants” falls into the clutches of cliche
Culture

“The New Mutants” falls into the clutches of cliche

Jordan Jones 09/07/2020

“The New Mutants” falls short of promise of horror and falls into the clutches of cliche.

Movie theaters return masked up.
Coronavirus Culture

Movie theaters return masked up.

Jordan Jones 09/04/2020

Armed with a mask, The Mesa Legend film critic goes back to the movie theater to see what’s changed. (Photo courtesy of PxHere.)

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