Country music, in my book, has been on a downward spiral since the late 2000’s. In the wake of all of the 2010’s hitmakers of country leaving relevance, they were replaced with some of the worst artists to hit radio in decades. Morgan Wallen makes bad country-inspired hip-hop for Trump Supporters, ...
Alexander Payne, director and screenwriter of award-winning films such as “The Descendants,” “Nebraska” and “Sideways,” has just released the next winter classic in “The Holdovers.” With a budget of 16 million dollars, Payne and the film's cast blew away viewers at the Toronto International ...
Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album “GUTS” is a confident step forward that remains in touch with her earlier work. “GUTS” is as tightly themed as “SOUR”, Rodrigo’s first released album, and keeps the spotlight on the artist’s signature sound while exploring a larger variety of instrumental ...
In 2014, the New York Times’ review of the original “1989” declared, “Ms. [Taylor] Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars...even bother aspiring to.” That same year, the success of “1989” prompted iconic journalist Barbara Walters to declare ...
For a show played 44 years after their 1979 debut, the Maryland date of post-punk/pop group The Cure’s tour “Shows of a Lost World” was stunningly good. The Cure performed at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, an amphitheater in Columbia that served as a catch-all date for the entire DMV. And catch ...
Longwood’s theater production’s rendition of the comedic tragedy “Crimes of the Heart” was both a joy to watch and a significant improvement from their last performance “Much Ado about Nothing.” With spectacular performances from the six actors, wonderful staging from the production crew, ...
2023 is proving to be a year of action! Multiple studios have announced a slate of action films to be released this year. Marvel and Warner Brothers Discovery, both titans of the superhero genre, have announced multiple films for the summer of 2023. Marvel will begin the year with a strong start ...
In 1975, the rock band Television convinced Hilly Kristal, owner of legendary NYC music club CBGBs, to allow rock artists to perform on their stage. After this Television, Patti Smith, Blondie, and Talking Heads became regular performers at the club. Then-unknown “street rock” outfit Ramones opened ...
The DC Extended Universe, or DCEU, is nearing its end. The fate of the cinematic universe of brooding antiheroes, bubbly crusaders, and somewhat heroic supervillains was confirmed in Dec. 2022 by Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD). There had been concerns over the state of the DCEU earlier in the past ...
“The Owl House” is an animated fantasy comedy show on The Disney Channel created by Dana Terrace. It premiered Jan. 10, 2020 and received positive to moderate reviews from audiences and critics as season one started airing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The show started gaining more attention and ...
The film My Policeman is a heartbreaking, while also heartwarming, story of a forbidden love that takes place in Great Britain in the 1950’s. Which was at a time when conservative ideals took even more of a precedence over the things that could be considered humane. Along with that, during the film ...
2018 saw one of the most bizarre, violent, and yet beautiful manga series to have ever been published in Shonen Jump. That series being Chainsaw Man, created by Tatsuki Fujimoto previously known for his manga Fire Punch. Chainsaw Man follows the story of Denji, an orphaned kid who hunts devils in order ...
Her phone buzzed. The default text tone, so it wasn’t someone that she talked to frequently. She had customized all the vibrations and tones of the people that she talked to frequently, so she knew who was messaging her before she even picked up the phone. This was just one solid “vvvv.” She ...
Her phone buzzed. The default text tone, so it wasn’t someone that she talked to frequently. She had customized all the vibrations and tones of the people that she talked to frequently, so she knew who was messaging her before she even picked up the phone. This was just one solid “vvvv.” She picked ...
The new CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD), David Zaslav, canceled the upcoming Batgirl movie, the next installment in the DCEU, earlier this year. Batgirl, which was supposed to be a HBOMax streaming exclusive, was nearly completed when Zaslav’s announcement was made that the film would be axed ...
Longwood Theatre’s 1930s Chicago twist on the Shakespearian masterpiece Much Ado About Nothing is everything one should expect from a production and more. With spectacular performances from the actors and wonderful staging from the production crew, the most recent production put on by Longwood University’s ...
In June of 2022, DC unveiled the official cinematic trailer for Black Adam. The character had been teased in 2019’s “Shazam!” as the previous champion before his imprisonment, but the upcoming film will be the live-action debut for the titular character. While The Rock has been promoting ...
Sony once again makes an endeavor into their own cinematic universe based on Marvel properties. Much like how Marvel Entertainment built a cinematic universe based on iconic Marvel comic characters, Sony aims to do the same with Spider-Man characters. In 2018, Sony released Venom, a movie based on the ...
Bringing glitter and glam to the forefront, Hello Kitty has returned to the makeup scene to create a seasonal yet dream collaboration with the clean and cruelty-free cosmetics brand, HipDot. While, the collaboration will consist of a four-product collection, per Nylon Magazine, “the collection’s ...
Creating a glamourous-filled fantasy, emerges Lady Gaga’s cosmetics beauty brand Haus Laboratories. Yes, the triple threat and now beauty influencer has tapped into the beauty industry to launch her latest and first-ever brow product, the Edge Precision Pencil. The self-made product hones in on a ...
