Entertainment

This week, TBT is dedicated to the unforgettable American Girl Dolls. Those 18-inch human-like dolls were the best part of our generation. They were our daughters when we played house and our best friends at home. Remember buying matching outfits? Oh, those were the days…

With spring break just around the corner (wasn’t it just Thanksgiving like a week ago, though?), we will all need something good to listen to. Let Valley take care of your spring break playlist for you.

Every girl has that one hair flipping, booty shaking, empowering song that she puts on whenever she is in the mood to feel fabulous. So Valley hit the streets to find the Ultimate Playlist that is suitable for any girl to jam out to.

At college, sometimes your Twitter feed is full of people complaining about all the studying they have to do, posting about all the awesome parties they went to, or tweeting about spotting campus celebrities (I’ve seen way too many “I saw Hackenberg!” tweets lately…). If your Twitter is lacking in hilarity and you need someone to spice it up a little, then check out Valley’s list of people to follow.

We all have our favorite celebrities that we obsess over and wish we could be (need I mention the countless tweets about Jennifer Lawrence?). What about our television show, movie and book character girl crushes? They play as important of a role as celebrity inspiration.

This Thursday, let’s take a moment to reflect on the series of novels that is quite possibly the reason for the downfall of our generation: “The Clique.” In this series, a group of pretentious seventh graders – yes, seventh graders – refer to themselves as “the pretty committee.” I’m pretty sure if any of us referred to ourselves as “the pretty committee” today we would be exiled from this campus.

There is one question asked among every family or group of friends that always leads to disagreements, and someone always ends up losing. It’s a question that has caused conflict for years. That’s right. It’s, “What movie should we watch?”

In less than a week many of us will be substituting the cold, polar vortex-riddled Happy Valley for warm and sunny destinations. But how do you know which Spring Break destination is really your best fit? Take our quiz to find out!

Rewind to syllabus week when you got your new classes and more importantly, your new classmates. You walk into English and immediately notice the boy sitting in front of you. Tousled hair reminiscent of Harry Styles, a Polo pullover, and a nice command of the English language—damn.

Our country is awesome—there is no doubt about that. With the Olympics taking place in Sochi this winter, we have an even better reason to show our patriotism (‘MURICA!) It’s no secret that the world’s best athletes have crazy amounts of talent, but let’s not exclude the MAJOR eye candy that comes along with it. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t seen these golden boys all over your TV, we’ve got you covered. They can be our #mancrushmonday anytime.

We had two of our writers, Jillian Selzer and Steven Lynch, live-tweet the Oscars last night. Relive the spectacle with as we recap the night through them.

Remember the days of Zoey 101, Hannah Montana and iCarly? Remember how ridiculous those shows were? Let’s break it down.

Middle School, aka the good old days. The days when life was carefree and wasn’t consumed by homework and exams. Don’t you wish you could go back? Well… maybe not.

Matthew Schuler was a season five contestant on The Voice and even though he didn’t win it all, he still made show history. If you have yet to see Matt’s blind audition, please do yourself a favor and listen to his beautiful Young the Giant cover. He didn’t even have to sing for ten seconds before all four coaches knew they wanted him and turned their chairs around, making his audition the fastest four-chair turn in The Voice history.

The media is a powerful thing. If you think about it, every piece of information we know about the world has been expressed or portrayed in the media. Television, movies, magazines, ad campaigns, newspapers, whatever channel it may be.

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of our favorite time-killing website Reddit and author of the book, “Without Their Permission,” made an appearance on campus this past Saturday to have a serious chat with Penn Staters about taking risks, exploring your passions and most importantly, picking a kick-ass mascot.

What’s better than talking behind somebody’s back? Talking behind somebody’s back right in front of their face. People across the world started tweeting about someone to no one. And thus, an art form was born. The subtweet. The Twitter world began to explode with endless forms of subtweets that never fail to entertain.

There something unexplainably adorable about celebrity best friends that makes us all fall in love with them. Seeing their pictures out shopping and being normal people remind us that maybe, just maybe, they’re not so different from us after all.

Last night, Valley hung out with heartthrob and Magic Mike superstar Alex Pettyfer. Okay, so we didn’t get to actually meet him (maybe in our dreams). But Valley was given the amazing opportunity to join a virtual college roundtable and talk to Pettyfer about his upcoming film, Endless Love (out February 14) as well as past and future projects.