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-21 posts tagged "romance"
Christine Hilario | Monday, November 1, 2021
BookTok’s latest obsession is published “Reylo” fan fiction. Popular fan fiction has been rebranded as original works of published fiction simply by changing the character names. Take “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “After,” for instance. Both book series started out as “Twilight” and One Direction fan fiction, respectively, and both series ended up garnering enough success
Crystal Ramirez | Monday, September 20, 2021
It is that time in the semester where I find myself contemplating my relationships and feelings. I have never had the best of luck with love and my vocal “I hate men” agenda — which is true 90% of the time — doesn’t help. So I thought, what better to do than expose the shitshow
Dessi Gomez | Friday, February 26, 2021
I have not yet read one of Kristin Hannah’s novels in my lifetime, but Netflix’s adaptation of “Firefly Lane” has definitely put her on my radar. The TV series changes quite a few plot points — as well as character roles and arcs — but Hannah’s touch still glimmers here and there. The story centers
Sophia Michetti | Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Dearest reader, never did the world think it would care so much about an 1813 British society until “Bridgerton” graced everyone’s screens at the end of 2020. Based off of Julia Quinn’s popular romance novel series, “Bridgerton” masterfully combines luxurious sets, beautiful music, burning romances and complex familial relationships into one eight-episode season that has
Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 15, 2019
Travis Scott filled an entire living room with thousands of roses for his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner. A man proposed with six rings so his now-fiancee could chose which one she liked best. My old friend’s boyfriend bought her a diamond ring as a “promise ring” when they were 17, and unfortunately, that promise only lasted
Dessi Gomez | Thursday, October 4, 2018
Pop singer-songwriter Lauv will perform at Legends Nightclub on Friday at 9 p.m. Tickets for his upcoming concert sold out halfway through the first day of sales on Thursday Sept. 27. Such a sellout is a rarity for the Legends Nightclub venue, hinting at Lauv’s popularity and the promise of a great performance. Lauv, which
Nicholas Ottone | Monday, August 27, 2018
I can’t pretend to be objective. I am half-Japanese and I have rarely seen movie stars who look like me. So I approached “Crazy Rich Asians” with barely-contained glee. For the first time in 25 years, there would be a major motion picture with a majority Asian and Asian-American cast. Based on previews, I expected
Charlie Kenney | Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Bruno Mars, Italian guys and pizza joints can make way for a new Bruno — Bruno Major. The North-London-based artist, who broke out onto the music scene in 2013 with his single “Home,” is ensuring with his most recent work that when you search“Bruno” on Google — between the “Uptown Funk” music video and the trailer
Courtney Phelan | Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Couples on Valentine’s Day are expected to exchange gifts. I don’t want to spend a lot of space in this column arguing that roses and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates are unnecessary, so here: those cliché roses are unsustainably farmed and shipped in from 3000 miles away, those cliché greeting cards are overpriced and impersonal, and
Jack Riedy | Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Kool A.D. has called himself the best rapper in the world so often that it’s hard to tell if he is that passionate or that ironic. He might be right either way. The artist, born Victor Vasquez, has been astonishingly prolific since leaving alt-rap duo Das Racist in 2012. He released eight mixtapes in 2016