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Mike Donovan | Thursday, April 2, 2020
The phrase “I hate country” rambles in shambling echoes around circles of self-described music nerds: a whiney chorus erupting from a choir of skinny little malcontents with mouths bigger than their record collections. “I hate country!” they sputter, hoping their spray might hit the nearest [Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, read more→
Aidan O'Malley | Thursday, April 2, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues its solemn march across the country (there are now nearly 200,000 cases in the U.S., and that’s only those who’ve been tested), Americans everywhere are turning to the leading expert on infectious disease: a Matt Damon movie. “Contagion,” released in 2011, has taken on read more→
Charlie Kenney | Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Seldom does a television series manage to bring quality amateur cooking, drama and competition together cohesively. “Chopped” seems to focus too much on the competition, and the quality of the food suffers as a result. “Hell’s Kitchen” appears to be too focused on the food and the particular since read more→
Jake Winningham | Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Does life imitate art, or is it the other way around? This question is at the heart of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” a masterful new film from French auteur Céline Sciamma that was released last year on the international festival circuit and is now appearing exclusively on read more→
Colleen Fischer | Tuesday, March 31, 2020
When I woke up last Friday, I knew new music would be coming out. And, having endured our world’s current situation, I was excited. (Constantly checking my Spotify until my parents told me to put my phone away because I’m living with them again — yeah that’s great. No, read more→
Claire Rafford and Dessi Gomez | Monday, March 30, 2020
Picture this: it’s day who-even-knows of quarantine, social distancing, self-isolation — whatever you want to call it. You’re stuck inside, away from the comfortable chaos of the tri-campus community. You’ve watched absolutely everything good on Netflix, there’s no sports of any kind to distract from the world and you read more→
Ryan Israel | Monday, March 30, 2020
Drake is the most ubiquitous, influential and popular music artist of the past decade. Drake is The Beatles. He has plenty of flaws — Google ghostwriters, hiding a child and more — and some really not great music. He’s also had some stellar feature appearances, outstanding songs and a read more→
Mike Donovan | Friday, March 27, 2020
Dogleg intercedes 30 minutes after you and your friends raid Lafayette Coney Island at which point four coneys “all the way” with fries and a Coke metabolize into a madness threatening to drown the night’s Super Smash Bros. Melee marathon in heartburn. Needle dropped on “Kawasaki Backflip,” volume cranked read more→
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, March 26, 2020
“Escapism” might not be the right word to describe a show about Nazis, revenge and the Holocaust, but if you’re looking for a show that crosses genres and delivers highly stylized action sequences — all while sticking to an appealing 1970s aesthetic — then Amazon Prime’s “Hunters” is the read more→
Dessi Gomez | Thursday, March 26, 2020
Liz Tigelaar’s television adaptation of Celeste Ng’s book “Little Fires Everywhere” really runs the gambit of hard-hitting topics. It’s easy to see why sparks light all these flammable areas in this story, which plays out very well on the screen on Hulu. The book caught fire through Reese Witherspoon’s read more→