CULTURE | FAME | CONVERSATION
The following article contains To the Bone (2017) spoilers. When I first saw the trailer for To the Bone (2017), I mistook the film for an upcoming Netflix original series. As the trailer portrayed the story of a young woman’s battle with an eating disorder, I was immediately disappointed in Netflix. Surely they weren’t going to make the…
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One evening around 2009 or 2010, I was piddling around on my Dell Ispiron like any other middle schooler my age. I basically had to teach myself internet safety, often fast-clicking out of phishing websites and discovering the seedier parts of the internet upon accident. A site my friends and I loved at the time…
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There’s plenty happening on the Carter-Knowles home front. No one knows completely for sure, but it is essentially confirmed that Beyoncé gave birth to her twins very recently. While the birth of the near-royalty twins is exciting news, the media seems to have all eyes on Jay-Z, who recently released his newest album, 4:44. The reviews for the…
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Hatfields and McCoys. Capulets and Montagues. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Throughout history, our society has held dear a good feud. A classic catfight usually consists of two parties, each at odds over words, actions and, more often than not, hearsay. Increasingly, modern media rejoices when celebrities, particularly female ones, throw shade in the direction…
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I like to consider YouTube like an old friend. Reliable and constant, I have always been able to fall back on YouTube at any time of the day for a few minutes away. The site holds a special place in my little millennial heart, because I grew up having YouTube in my life. I recall…
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The following article contains spoilers from Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman (2017). With it’s immaculate Rotten Tomatoes score and mega hype on the box office front, I figured it would be foolish not to go see DC’s new Wonder Woman. And I must say, it met every one of my expectations. On Saturday I had a movie viewing…
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Today is my 20th birthday! That feels bizarre to type and even more bizarre to admit to myself. When I was younger, up until like four years ago, I would hear about my favorite celebrities turning 20 and think to myself “I’ll never be that old”. 20 seemed so fresh and luxe. If you were 20…
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The following blog post contains 13 Reasons Why spoilers. Typically I allow hype for streaming series to die down before I divulge into them. And to say there was hype surrounding 13 Reasons Why would be a massive understatement. I honestly couldn’t open an app without some sort of review or spoiler popping up. I never read the novel,…
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I’m worried. I’m worried that the integrity of the media content we enjoy is beginning to slip. That the art we so regularly subscribe to is lacking in meaning. But mostly I am worried that we are stuck with some pretty shitty music, film and television. Presently, the political climate of America is both hostile…
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Yesterday I attended an informational session about an internship opportunity abroad. The man orating the meeting was primarily there to urge us all to apply to the selection process for the prestigious internship. But in the hour that I spent in the meeting, I felt I only endured a few moments of information. “You’ll never be professional…
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