A scientist. A basketball coach. A priest. In seventh grade, my mom founded the speech team at my middle school. That was when I seriously started acting. A husband. A father. A son. A friend. Since then, I have performed in multiple theater productions, competed…
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When the world is listening, give them something to hear. Coming off his launch into the mainstream, Sam Fender had a unique opportunity to grow and experiment with his sound. Instead, Fender returned to the basics of the genre he mastered. Fender’s third album is…
New York rapper A$AP Rocky was recently acquitted in a gun trial that spanned almost three years. Despite being offered a relatively generous plea deal, Rocky maintained his innocence throughout the case. Facing a potential sentence of 24 years in prison, Rocky leapt into the…
Welp, he’s back. Kinda. Coming off of an embarrassing defeat in one of the most public rap feuds in history, Toronto rapper Drake needed something to reestablish himself as one of the titans in the hip-hop landscape. When he revealed his next album would be…
Last year, the romantic comedy film “Anyone But You” (2023) shattered box office projections, grossing over $220 million worldwide. The movie’s success led many to believe a mainstream rom-com resurgence was on the horizon. Over a year later, we’re still waiting. Rom-coms have been on…
As the weekend began on Friday, The Weeknd came to a close. “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is the sixth studio album from Abel Tesfaye, known professionally as The Weeknd. The album serves not only as a conclusion to the trilogy of his three most recent projects,…
It’s no surprise actor Adrien Brody received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance in “The Brutalist” on Jan. 23. Brody’s performance in director Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour-long epic has been almost universally praised, and Brody won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by…
When Conor Oberst starts to sing, you listen. Indie-folk band Bright Eyes released their newest album, “Five Dice, All Threes” on Sept. 20. The record marks their first studio album since 2020, and their ninth full-length project as a band. While the band has a…
In its first project since 2022, indie pop-rock band COIN has returned with its sixth full-length album. Following a few years of experimentation with 2021’s “Rainbow Mixtape” and 2022’s “Uncanny Valley,” COIN has returned to its roots with a more straightforward pop record. “I’m Not…
Is good animation really that important?
The Academy’s Best Animated Feature winner this year, “Flow,” is notable for many reasons. A relatively simple story about a cat trying to survive a hostile environment, it’s the first movie made by an independent studio to win the award and the first movie produced…