Orion Baker , Author at The Patriot Talon

PHOTO ESSAY: Ready, Set, Matcha at ASA’s Performative Male Contest

October 9, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Multimedia Editor Assistant and HIMAANI RANKA/Staff Writer and ELIZABETH INION/Staff Writer On Sept. 30, UT Tyler’s Asian Student Association hosted the first ever Performative Male Contest at the Amphitheater by WT Brookshire Hall. [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: “Getting Killed” by Geese

September 30, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Assistant Multimedia Editor Duke Reviews: “Getting Killed” by Geese Hello, and welcome back to Duke Reviews! After a short hiatus from my reviews since the summer, I’m reviewing the band Geese’s new album [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: “DON’T TAP THE GLASS” by Tyler, The Creator

July 29, 2025 Orion Baker

By Orion Baker/Multimedia Editor Assistant Duke Reviews: “DON’T TAP THE GLASS” by Tyler, The Creator Tyler, the Creator has been on a roll following the success of “CHROMAKOPIA”, While still being on his world tour, [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: Superman (2025)

July 22, 2025 Orion Baker

By Orion Baker/ Multimedia Editor Assistant Duke Reviews: Superman Note: This review contains spoilers. If you haven’t watched the film, I implore you to. Easily one of the most anticipated movies of this year, Superman [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: How To Train Your Dragon (2025)

July 15, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/ Multimedia Editor Assistant Duke Reviews: How To Train Your Dragon (2025) As we all know by now, live-action remakes these days often fall short of the original. This is often the case [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: Ballerina

July 15, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Multimedia Editor Assistant Duke Reviews: From The World of John Wick: Ballerina Since the beginning of this column, I have consistently mentioned reviewing films, and today is the first one. Set in the [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: “Isotope” by Wasia Project

July 15, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Assistant Video Editor Duke Reviews: “Isotope” EP by Wasia Project Hello! I’m Orion, and welcome back to Duke Reviews. Today’s submission was from the former Marketing Editor of Talon Student Media, Breanna Bolle. She [Read More…]

Duke Reviews: “Hurry Up Tomorrow” by The Weeknd

March 24, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Columnist Hello and welcome back! I’m Orion, and after some consideration, I decided to look at more popular albums to build up the audience and then get the recommendations going. The form for [Read More…]

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

March 21, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Video Editor Assistant Texas A&M Kingsville baseball coaches watch from the dugout as they fall to defeat Feb. 22 at Irwin Field. Photo by ORION BAKER. Pitcher Rawley Hector [Read More…]

Artificial Intelligence in UT Tyler

February 17, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Staff Writer Artificial intelligence has had a meteoric growth. With the ability for simply checking grammar to writing entire assignments, AI is a double-edged sword for many students and teachers. TRANSFORMING EDUCATION AI [Read More…]