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Kane Mitten

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

Name: Kane Mitten

Position: Arts & Life Editor

Bio: Kane is a former editorial intern at Cincinnati Magazine and has worked for the Northerner since early 2018. If he’s not sitting in the newsroom working on this week’s Northerner issue, he’s probably scrolling through Twitter, digging through SoundCloud and YouTube for new music or binge-watching his latest TV obsession.

Year/Major: Fifth year, communication studies & journalism double major

Favorite song, TV show or movie: Any film by the Coen Brothers

Social media handle: @k4nem1 on Twitter and Instagram

All content by Kane Mitten
Assistant Manager Alex Gray, General Manager Emily Cay and DJ Nic Vitale record a show in Norse Code Radio's Griffin Hall studio.

Campus clubs look to the future amid pandemic

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

With the coronavirus pandemic closing NKU’s campus for the Spring 2020 semester, several campus organizations are in disarray, and organization leaders are wondering how to plan for the fall semester—if...

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Farewell: Senior Arts & Life Editor Kane Mitten

Farewell: Senior Arts & Life Editor Kane Mitten

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

The Northerner saved my life. I don’t mean this as some kind of joke or exaggerated statement. I came to The Northerner at my lowest point in life after some personal trauma I wouldn’t wish on anyone....

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Inside the The James C. and Rachel M. Votruba Student Union.

Applications for pass/fail grading now open

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

NKU’s pass/fail grading option is now available to students. Students who wish to apply can send an email to NKU’s Office of the Registrar. The option will remain available until May 1, the last day...

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Students walk through NKU's campus to celebrate Pride Week.

How NKU is celebrating Pride Week digitally

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

Even though campus is closed, NKU’s Office of LGBTQ+ Programs and Services is still finding ways to celebrate Pride Week digitally with a series of online events.  The director of LGBTQ+ Programs...

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corona feature

NKU provost answers student questions

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

On Monday afternoon, Provost Sue Ott Rowlands sent out a campus-wide email clarifying many of the questions the administration has received about current and future plans for the university in the wake...

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corona immersive feature

Ohio residents ordered to shelter-in-place

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

Ohio is now under a shelter-in-place order to limit the spread of coronavirus, Governor Mike DeWine announced Sunday afternoon. Ohio Health Director Dr. Amy Acton signed the order, which is in effect beginning...

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Coronavirus myths: what to do, how to stop it

Coronavirus myths: what to do, how to stop it

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

In the age of social media, misinformation runs rampant—especially in the time of a global pandemic. With so many people posting inaccuracies on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook with talks of misconceptions...

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From left to right: Westworld, FIght Club, Luther, There Will Be Blood and Ozark.

What’s coming to streaming in March

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
Feeling lucky this month? If you’re a fan of some of Netflix’s most famous originals returning this month, or of any of FX’s series, you might be. Spring break is coming up, and weather forecasts aren’t looking too great, so it’s time to get out from all the rain and stay inside to spend break catching up on new seasons of old favorites.
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A rehearsal of "Eurydice." Costume design by Emmy Kaeppner, props design by Kristen Craven

‘Eurydice’ puts new spin on old tale

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
How difficult is it to write music so beautiful that it could open the gates of hell? Ask Matthew Nassida, director of the Henry Konstantinow Theatre’s latest play “Eurydice.”
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From left to right: Say Anything, Punch Drunk Love, Blade Runner, The Farewell, To All The Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You.

What’s coming to streaming in February

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

It’s February, and love is in the air. Whether you’re cuffed and happy or single and bored, there’s plenty of new, exciting movies and TV shows to enjoy regardless of your relationship status. Snuggle...

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What’s coming to streaming in November

What’s coming to streaming in November

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor

Don’t you love Cincinnati’s weather? We went from 80 degrees to 40 degrees in about a week’s worth of time. With these chilly temperatures, it’s the perfect time to snuggle up under a blanket and...

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NKU fans pose during the homecoming game against Oakland. The Norse defeated Oakland 79-64.

How NKU athletics plans to get fans in the door

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
With NKU’s basketball program growing massively in the past few years, including two trips to the NCAA tournament and one bid to the NIT, the athletics department is doing all that they can to ensure students, alumni and local residents are making their way down to BB&T Arena to cheer on the Norse—including a new promotion that will send students home with $1,000.
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New media art major Zack Hargrove cuts away at a piece of metal for use in "Light Streams".

BLINK festival encourages collaboration between students, faculty, alumni

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
BLINK, a free, light-based art festival, is easily the biggest event in Cincinnati. The inaugural BLINK in 2017 drew more than a million people to the Queen City—almost 400,000 more than Oktoberfest Zinzinnati. After the roaring success of the festival’s first year, Brad McCombs, associate professor of art and music program head, knew that NKU’s School of the Arts had to get involved somehow.
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What’s coming to streaming in October

What’s coming to streaming in October

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
Fall is supposed to be here, but you wouldn’t know it yet judging by the 90-degree forecasts for the first week of October. Regardless of the weather, there’s always time to chill out on the couch and watch some TV; and, in keeping with the Halloween season, there’s a killer slate of new, original content and classic slasher movies coming your way this month on streaming.
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NKU men's basketball fans at Mac's Pizza Pub Cold Spring watch the Norse take on the Texas Tech Raiders in the first round of March Madness.

Mac’s Pizza Pub to hold karaoke events, student-centered nights

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
For many NKU students, going to the Applebee’s location just outside of campus every Wednesday for karaoke nights is a tradition.  So when the popular restaurant chain announced this past Wednesday that karaoke nights were no more, several students took to Twitter to criticize the decision. Some went as far as starting a #boycottapplebees hashtag. Then, a Mac’s Pizza Pub employee announced on Twitter that Mac’s would be hosting its own karaoke nights from now on.
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Fall fashion on a budget

Fall fashion on a budget

Kane Mitten and Corinne Byrne
Your dorm room may be a mess, but your look doesn’t have to be. There is plenty of high-quality clothing out there that will keep you looking fresh without turning your bank account rotten—you just have to look in the right places.
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Fiji: What went wrong?

Fiji: What went wrong?

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
When Phi Gamma Delta—also known as Fiji—arrived on campus in fall 2016, excitement was high. But this once-promising fraternity quickly lost its way after the departure of the campus chapter’s first president and several subsequent struggles with recruiting.
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‘The Big Event’ brings students together

Kane Mitten, Arts & Life Editor
Lots of unfamiliar people, a variety of odd yet exciting events and everyone in attendance confused and unsure of what they should be doing—NKU’s first annual The Big Event was the perfect metaphor for college.
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Winterfest returns to NKU

Winterfest returns to NKU

Kane Mitten, Assistant Arts & Life

To celebrate the beginning of the new semester, NKU is holding a weeklong festival for students full of fun events and exciting opportunities. On Wednesday, head to the Student Union Plaza for the annual...

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Northern Kentucky gets its second Raising Cane’s just across the street from East Village.

Raising Cane’s opens on US 27

Kane Mitten, Assistant Arts & Life

Raising Cane’s opened their new location in Cold Spring on Tuesday. The fast-casual chicken restaurant is located right outside of campus on Alexandria Pike and sits behind the Arby’s across...

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James Blazina attempts a challenging climbs route on the Campus Recreation Center's bouldering wall.

Climbing club scales new heights

Kane Mitten, Assistant Arts & Life

Tristan Breetz coats his hands in chalk and begins to make his ascent. Grabbing onto each ridge, hold and handle embedded in the wall, he successfully makes his way to the peak and then gracefully drops...

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Sophomore Korbin Florer, sports business and finance double major, becomes wickedly cool as she helps with Activites Programming Board's Pumpkin Bust on Oct. 31, 2018.

[Photo] Norse-o-ween through campus

Josh Kelly, Arts & Life Editor

Arts & Life Editor Josh Kelly and Editor-in-Chief Sam Rosenstiel dress as Miles Morales from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and J. Jonah Jameson from Spider-Man, respectively.

Denhollander visited campus Tuesday to speak as part of Take Back the Night.

Rachael Denhollander takes back the night

Kane Mitten, Reporter

“The most powerful thing you can do with your voice is speak the truth to a society that often does not want to hear it,” Rachael Denhollander said to over 75 students in the University Center ballroom...

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