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Thursday, November 21, 2024
I didn’t plan to binge-watch all nine seasons of The Office throughout April but that’s exactly what I ended up doing. Before quarantine, I had never really been interested in watching sitcoms, and I never had the time to sit down and watch 10 consecutive episodes of a show. Once […]
Have you ever turned on Spotify’s “private session” function to listen to music anonymously, away from the eyes of potentially judging peers? Have you ever described your music as a “guilty pleasure” before? All too often I’ll find people who sheepishly admit to listening to artists like Billie Eilish, Ariana […]
Sometimes the death of an artist can enhance our understanding of their work. Take David Bowie’s critically acclaimed “Blackstar” a harrowing journey through the mind of a man coming to the end of his life and exploring the finality of death with the poignancy and skill that only Bowie, facing […]
This past June, fans of “The Office” were shocked to learn that the massively popular sitcom would be leaving Netflix. NBCUniversal, the company that owns the rights to the show, released a statement informing fans that the sitcom would be leaving Netflix and be exclusively feature on NBC’s own standalone […]
In his first solo full length album since the brutally honest “Ye”, Kanye West has returned in full force. After months of strange political activism, offhanded comments about slavery and femininity, and his avid support for President Donald Trump, Mr. West has released his first gospel album, Jesus is King. […]
This movie seems like it is filmed in one shot. One very long shot. Sam Mendes’ upcoming feature film, “1917,” follows the journey of two British soldiers tasked with transporting news across devastated WWI landscapes and behind enemy lines to another British battalion of 1600 troops to warn them of […]
“The Good Place,” a fantasy comedy television series, describes the lives of four friends in the afterlife. The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), who discovers after speaking with the angel-architect overseeing the Good Place neighborhood, Michael (Ted Danson), that she was mistakenly put in the Good Place, a heaven-like […]
The works of William Shakespeare often haunt the nightmares of high school students. “I think [students] hear about Shakespeare, and what they know of it is that it’s complex language, and it was written a long time ago,” said freshman english teacher Ms. Eckert, when asked about why many students […]