This weeks picks include singer-songwriter Sampha’s new album Lahai; internet personality Ziwe’s literary debut with Black Friend: Essays; Flashback, directed by Jed Shepherd and Everyman Theatre’s first performance of The Chinese Lady.
Drake continues to follow his own formula with his newest album For All the Dogs, which was released this past Friday, Oct. 6. Lacking creativity and cohesion, Drake once again fails to deliver a true classic album.
DBH is a theater company that produces “cultural expressions of African descent into play, skits, monologues, poetry recitals and dance presentations.” Unique to itself, DBH is the only theater company on campus whose main focus is on representing Black identity and communicating their experience through art.
There’s something special about the excitement of a theater minutes before the lights go down. People are flipping through the programs or chatting with their friends, and theater group members are doing their last checks and preparations before showtime. You can never know for sure exactly what kind of show you’re going to be in for.
In a cinema landscape where almost every horror film is a metaphor, it becomes slightly disappointing when a film doesn’t execute its messages well, or when it fails to land on any message at all. Regardless of its muddy themes, Bishal Dutta’s feature film directorial debut, It Lives Inside, puts a twist on the possession horror film archetype by following an Indian-American teenage girl’s experience with an evil spirit from Hindu mythology.
This week's picks include The Fall of the House of Usher, a new horror series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and the Peabody Dance Family Weekend performance at Joe Byrd Hall.
“The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” Mitski said in an interview with Dead Oceans. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.”
This week's picks include Javelin, the tenth studio album by Sufjan Stevens, fantasy thriller novel Beholder by Ryan La Sala, The Exorcist: Believer and the International Poe Festival at the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum.
On Sept. 23 the Peabody Symphony Orchestra (PSO) held its first concert of the academic year. Though held with free admission at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, I had the pleasure of being able to watch it online through a live broadcast. Included in the program were the following pieces: “Pulse” by Brian Nabors, “Totenfeier” by Gustav Mahler and “Symphony No. 2” by Louise Farrenc. The pieces were all conducted by Joseph Young.
The first episode of American Horror Story’s new season, Delicate, focuses on the stresses of being a woman in modern society, paired with creepy visions of stalkers and arachnids.
What makes us fall in love? In Past Lives, the quietly stunning debut from Korean-Canadian filmmaker Celine Song, the response is a deceptive one. There is in-yun, a Korean concept of fate intimating that thousands of years of past life interactions bring two people together. But there are also the childhood memories shared, the books coincidentally read and the glances that linger too long. Are these so different? Or are they precisely the same?
Bottoms, directed by Emma Seligman, is the most memorable comedy I’ve seen all year. On top of being genuinely funny, it subverts the usual stereotypes of queer media about teenagers. There’s no coming-out subplot present anywhere, but the film is still full of unapologetically lesbian characters and gay jokes that had the entire theater laughing.
This week's picks include the documentary Invisible Beauty, a new Percy Jackson and the Olympians novel and the debut of a new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
If there’s one thing that Hopkins has no shortage of, it’s fantastic a cappella groups. But with so many groups on campus, it can be difficult to really highlight the unique strengths and interests of each one. This week I was able to sit down with senior Matt Rodgers, the president of Ketzev at JHU, to find out what makes Ketzev and a cappella at Hopkins so special.
Out of the 38 Netflix Original releases so far this month, nine of which are movies, the new Netflix romantic comedy Love At First Sight sits at the top of the pedestal as No. 1 in the top 10 movies in the U.S. The new addition to Netflix’s repertoire is an adaptation of the novel The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight, written by Jennifer E. Smith.
While Olivia Rodrigo’s second studio album GUTS follows the same musical style as her previous project SOUR, there is an added edge to the returning punk attitude as she discusses the challenges of growing up.
This week’s picks also include Expend4bles, the latest addition to The Expendables film series, Kylie Minogue’s long-awaited return with her new album Tension and the Baltimore-wide arts festival Artscape.
In Teezo Touchdown’s debut album, style trumps over substance, and though there are enjoyable moments on songs such as “Mood Swing” and “Familiarity,“ most of the track list is full of generic instrumentals and laughable performances.
The 2023 O-Show was split into three separate showcases: Sept. 1 was for theater, Sept. 2 was for a cappella groups and Sept. 4 featured the dance groups on campus. The sheer number of groups involved and the quality of the acts display that performance art is thriving on the Homewood Campus.
This week’s picks include an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s A Haunting in Venice, a remix album by Demi Lovato and The Death I Gave Him, a queer Shakespeare retelling of Hamlet.
