While life has continued to provide highs and lows for us all, art has proven to be a remedy and an escape. Because of this, we decided to ask our Arts and Entertainment staff to tell us what art aided them throughout 2021, from addicting video games to exhilarating performances. 1. ‘Charli’ by Charli XCX [...]
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I first became familiar with Marc Rebillet through a series of tweets by rapper Ice-T last August. After coming across a clip of the internet sensation playing the organ on an episode of Kenny Beats’ web series, “The Cave,” Ice-T spent a week doing free promo for Rebillet, posting his favorite videos and dubbing Rebillet [...]
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This review contains spoilers and mentions of suicide and death of a parent After only one season, Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso” quickly garnered a reputation for being wholesome, bright and heartwarming. All of these descriptions were accurate, but they felt incomplete. To call the first season of “Ted Lasso” wholesome and leave it at that [...]
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I spent Sept. 28, 2018, telling anyone who would listen about “Yandhi,” a new album by Kanye West that was slated to be released that night at midnight. There was hardly a shortage of Kanye West music at the time either. Just four months prior, West released two albums, a self-titled solo project and a [...]
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Lorde’s music has always been about the overwhelming feelings that come with quiet moments. Her two previous albums — “Pure Heroine” and “Melodrama” — were chock-full of songs that cast the hushed whispers and closed doors of a house party as harbingers of angst, awkwardness and euphoria. Her latest release, “Solar Power,” which arrived Aug. [...]
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