Pizza is a widely enjoyed food that comes in a wide variety of types, with two of the largest types of pizza being Italian style and American style pizza. Between these two pizzas, people often debate which one is the best, with the general reasoning behind the heated discussion between the two largely concerns authenticity, […]
Month: July 2025
AI Music Artists Are Here, Is It Too Late To Stop Them?
Artificial Intelligence technology, despite being in its relative infancy, has wormed its way into almost all job industries. Outside of technology, AI has had a huge impact on entertainment, a place where many thought it would be safe. It turns out that industries like music are a haven for AI technology to thrive. Vocal generators […]
Sean “Diddy” Combs Found Not Guilty of Sex Trafficking
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been acquitted from his most serious charges, sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, and was found guilty of lesser crimes. The jury, after three days of deliberations, reached a verdict finding him guilty on two accounts of transportation for prostitution. Combs’ defense team views this verdict as a win. Once the verdict […]
TV’s Legacy Characters and the Burden of Relevance
In the age of reboots, revivals and cinematic universes, television’s legacy characters are no longer allowed to rest. They’re resurrected, repackaged and reintroduced — often with a fresh coat of wokeness, trauma or even rebranded into a funko pop toy to “get with the times” so to speak. But in trying to make them relevant, […]
Brick by Brick: What Myles Turner Adds to the Bucks
The 2025 National Basketball Association Offseason has been, in better words…..a pandemonium. Headlines from Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets to Desmond Bane becoming an Orlando Magic have shown that the NBA landscape is in a seismic shift. A shift that is in opportunity and direction for a championship. And who could blame them considering […]
The Medicalization of Fatness in Political Rhetoric
In 2025, American society continues to grapple with the consequences of framing fatness as a medical crisis — a narrative that has seeped beyond clinics and into the cultural bloodstream. As political leaders double down on obesity as a national emergency or an “obesity epidemic to be specific, sociologists and activists warn that the real […]
Trump Announces 20% Tariff Trade Deal with Vietnam
President Donald Trump announced a new trade deal with Vietnam that will impose a 20% tariff on the country’s imports to the US. The deal, he said, will allow the US to have tariff-free access to Vietnam’s market. Trump claims Vietnam also agreed to a 40% tariff on goods if they are imported from another […]
Michael Bay to Return to Transformers: Is the Future for the Franchise Bleak or Promising?
With Michael Bay’s “Transformers,” in 2007 being a smash hit, it allowed the franchise to really shine in the eyes of the public, with four sequels being pumped out to recreate the success of the first live action film since. However, with each release, the quality of each film took a hard nosedive and by […]
What’s Your Magnetic Field?
Several days ago, I found myself reflecting on how this all began—my journey into the world of professional baseball. I was just 11 years old when I became a batboy. When people ask how it started, I think of it not as a moment, but as a force—like a magnetic field. I didn’t stumble into […]
Ambiance and Music: How They Work Hand in Hand
When considering music as a whole, ambience isn’t something that’s always necessarily recognized or thought of, however ambiance has a major role that a good number of people fail to recognize, not only as an aspect of music, but as a genre of its own as well. Music that utilizes ambiance predominantly could be described […]
More Than Makeup – It’s Therapy
I never thought a tube of mascara mattered much – until I needed it to. I mean it’s silly in theory, but doing my makeup each morning gives me a reason to start the day. And no, it isn’t about wanting to look different – it is a time that is mine, and mine alone. […]
Why Prestige Cinema Can’t Stop Fetishizing Pain
Prestige cinema has a pain problem. Not the kind that invites empathy or understanding but the kind that fetishizes suffering as a shortcut to artistic legitimacy. From Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” to Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave”, the industry’s most lauded films often hinge on the spectacle of agony. Physical degradation, emotional torment and […]
