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On Oct. 4, Netflix released The Platform 2 which is a Spanish dystopian thriller that reimagines the prison system as a vertical self-management center. A second installment to The Platform universe, the movie begins with two cellmates Zamiatin (Hovik Keuchkerian) and Perempuán (Milena Smit) who wake up on level 24 of the prison.
Lizzy McAlpine’s most recent release, Older (and Wiser) won me over before I even listened to it. I cannot emphasize how much I love a good — or bad — pun, and deluxe albums with witty titles are my guilty pleasures (see: guts (spilled) by Olivia Rodrigo and Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale by Tyler, the Creator).
“It’s like standing in a power station on acid,” said Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, of his landmark album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. Thirty years later, its beautiful yet unsettling dreamlike soundscapes remain as captivating as ever, and earlier this month the album returned with an expanded anniversary edition.
In an interview with The News-Letter, Judah Akers, lead singer of indie folk band Judah & the Lion, said that they make music, “for people… to point people to hope.” Their newest album, The Process, is a journey through the five stages of grief. Twenty-four tracks guide listeners through the thick of denial, anger, bargaining and depression all the way to acceptance.
Poet Megan Pinto held an event at local cafe Bird in Hand to present her debut poetry collection, Saints of Little Faith on Sunday, Oct. 6. Alongside Pinto, Samuel Cheney, Jimin Seo and Jess Yuan presented their work. After the attendees had settled into their seats inside of the atmospheric bookstore, the poets were introduced and the event began.
The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (HSO) delivered an expert performance on the evening of Oct. 5 in the Shriver Hall auditorium. The orchestra opened with William Grant Still’s Serenade before shifting to Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major and ending with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, or From the New World.
Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, the Sept. 24 addition to her oeuvre, is a novel chronicling the tumultuous relationship between the Dublin-based 22-year-old competitive chess player Ivan Koubek and his 32-year-old barrister brother Peter after the death of their father. Or, more suitably, Intermezzo is a novel chronicling the men’s relationship with women. What could have been a novel interrogating a variety of worthy themes — the function of grief and trauma in love, the explosive or inopportune nature of fate or the destructiveness of family — is instead a novel that reads like a pubescent teenage boy preoccupied with sex.
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, Oct. 10 "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She is the first Asian woman to win this award.
The Peabody Symphony Orchestra (PSO) held its first concert of the 2024–25 season on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall at the Peabody Institute. Under the baton of conductor Joseph Young — Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg artistic director of ensembles — the orchestra presented works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Robert Schumann and a performance of Darius Milhaud by soprano Tina O’Malley, winner of the 2024 Sylvia Green Voice Competition. This concert was part of the ongoing Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Concert Series.
Hello and welcome! As we enter into the week of fall break, I hope each of you feels a slight release from the pressures of midterms. For your moment of free time, late night creative curiosities or general interest in the local arts scene, the Arts & Entertainment section is here with a list of media to inspire and satiate you. As always, we hope you enjoy our picks for the week and check some of them out!
“I was always a nerd,” said Jordan Jackson — a Baltimore-based comic artist, writer and faculty for animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) — during my First-Year Seminar: Writing with Pictures: An Introduction to Writing Picture Books and Graphic Novels. On Monday, Sept. 30, my class was honored to have Jackson join our class to discuss his journey as an artist and his creative process.
Jamie was planning on celebrating her birthday in Thailand with her mom and brother, but her mom died. So she probably has to think of something else.
You know that moment when a podcast becomes more than just a weekly listen? When it transforms into a cultural phenomenon, sparking debate, drama and endless TikTok commentary? Yeah, that’s what Cancelled , a podcast hosted by Tana Mongeau and Brooke Schofield, has done — taking the world of pop culture, scandals and the art of calling out influencers to a whole new level. It's like being a fly on the wall at Hollywood’s most exclusive party, but way juicier. And let me tell you, when I got to attend their live show in Baltimore on Sept. 25th at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, it was even more chaotic and entertaining than I could have ever imagined.
Being embarrassingly earnest is not a guarantee for success, and Megalopolis is the perfect example of a passion project that misses the mark. If every movie is a miracle, Megalopolis is less of a second coming and more of a moment of lucidness before succumbing to death.
If a scrapbook transcending temporal and spatial boundaries — and, of course, a thousand frames of mind — was condensed into an album, it would be Kate Bollinger’s new album Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind. Despite having been in the music industry for almost six years now, the record, which was released on Sept. 27, is the indie-folk singer’s debut studio album.
One way to know if someone made it in the South Korean entertainment industry is whether or not they have the highly coveted “Nation’s” nickname. IU, arguably one of the most successful South Korean female soloists, has been dubbed “Nation’s Younger Sister.” The main host of countless variety shows, Yoo Jae-suk, is known as “Nation’s MC.” Now, riding off the highs of their record-breaking EP Band Aid and a handful of songs from previous albums firmly sitting in the South Korean charts, Day6 is the newly crowned “Nation’s Band.”
Ironically, with Halloween around the corner, there’s only one hot-ticket horror film to announce this week: Terrifier 3 — a classic thrasher set on Christmas Eve in a sleepy, little town — is worth to add to your rotation of Halloween classics. But my excitement lies with the two comedies releasing this Friday: The Apprentice, a film covering Trump’s New York real-estate business back in the ‘70s and ‘80s; and Saturday Night, which recounts the events leading up to the first airing of Saturday Night Live.
Adapted from Peter Brown’s novel of the same name, The Wild Robot breathes new life into the book’s well-loved characters with a style that feels true to childhood fantasy. Its combination of majestic worldbuilding and heartfelt characterizations beautifully fleshes out Brown’s story of finding belonging in a foreign place.
From Sept. 19 to 22, the Baltimore Theatre Project, in collaboration with the High Zero Foundation, hosted this year’s annual High Zero festival. Over four days, 20 improvised sets featuring four solo acts and 16 group performances showcased the best of Baltimore’s experimental music scene.
There’s a 0.01286% chance — about 1 in 7776 — that you’ll roll the combination referenced in the title of indie band Bright Eyes’ 11th LP: Five Dice, All Threes.