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Sara Darnell

Bio: Sara Darnell is a recent graduate from Lindenwood University where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry. She voraciously consumes literary fiction but has a love for all genres. You can find her playing video games, reading novels, and scribbling down poems throughout the day. Sara is incredibly honored to join the talented NYC Tastemakers team and hone her craft.
Food

The Try Guys Keith Habersberger’s “Eat The Menu” series is a delight. (Op-Ed)

There is one face I think of when I sit down to eat a meal: Keith Habersberger of The Try Guys. Keith is friendly, positive, and personable, as are the other Try Guys; but there is something special and magical about the “Eat The Menu: Keith Eats Everything” series on ...

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Sports

I hope Mike Tyson knocks out Jake Paul in one punch. (Op-Ed)

Jake Paul needs to get his ego checked. The YouTuber has been a part of numerous controversies and is a general nuisance to the public. Now he thinks of himself as a professional boxer worthy of taking on notorious champion Mike Tyson in a summer Netflix event. Jake Paul “has ...

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Latest News

Trump unable to pay $464 million bond in New York civil fraud case

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appeals court that Trump can not find an insurance company that is willing to underwrite his $464 million bond. Trump’s attorneys allege that he has contacted over 30 underwriters to back the bond that is due at the end of the ...

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Politics

Panda Diplomacy: Why the U.S. needs to work with foreign nations for the sake of conservation. (Op-Ed)

The first pandas came to American zoos after President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972— every panda in the U.S. was loaned under contract. China let these contracts expire due to tensions in Washington, effectively taking back almost every giant panda in American zoos. Not only were zoogoers ...

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Latest News

Father of Michigan school shooter convicted of manslaughter

James Crumbley, the father of the teenage school shooter who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021, was convicted of manslaughter Thursday. This conviction comes a month after the shooter’s mother, Jennifer Crumbley, was convicted of the same charges. He was convicted of four counts of involuntary ...

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Sports

Flag football is a safe alternative to a sport rife with traumatic head injuries. (Op-Ed)

Tackle football poses an intrinsic threat to youth athletes. The National Institutes of Health released data that suggest that tackle football raises the risk for athletes of all ages to develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Repeated traumatic head injuries cause tangles of a protein called tau to build up in ...

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Politics

If Donald Trump wins in 2024, human and civil rights will be set decades back. (Op-Ed)

When Donald Trump took office in January 2017, his administration worked relentlessly to roll back decades of work to ensure human rights protections for many minority groups. If Donald Trump is reelected in 2024, we will see even more dismantling of human and civil rights policies; this is incredibly dangerous ...

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Latest News

Elon Musk cancels X contract with Don Lemon after intense interview

Don Lemon said Wednesday that his partnership with Elon Musk dramatically reached its end after a “tense” interview. The former CNN anchor sat down to talk to Musk in a 90-minute sit-down to discuss X, formerly known as Twitter, on his new independent web show. “Elon publicly encouraged me to ...

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Music

Lana Del Rey is long overdue for a Grammy. (Op-Ed)

Lana Del Rey is one of the most versatile artists; from pop, to rock, to jazz, to synth-wave, she has shown her incredible vocal and creative range since her debut, self-titled 2010 album. She has nine studio albums, three EPs, 38 singles (including four as a featured artist), 18 promotional singles, and one box set. ...

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Politics

Abortion was first, now access to birth control is threatened. (Op-Ed)

A Texas law requiring that minors must have parental consent before obtaining birth control was upheld in federal court by a panel of three judges on Tuesday. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with President Joe Biden and his administration and ruled that the Texas law did not ...

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Latest News

Japanese Space One Kairos rocket explodes just seconds after launch

Space One, a private Japanese firm, attempted to be the first Japanese company to put a satellite into orbit. Kairos, the 59-foot-tall, solid-fueled spacecraft, lifted off at 11:01 a.m. in the mountainous Kii Peninsula in western Japan on Wednesday. Five seconds after launch, the middle of the rocket erupted into ...

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TV

Netflix’s live-action adaptation of “Avatar the Last Airbender” removes all the fun from the original cartoon. (Op-Ed)

I grew up with Nickelodeon’s Avatar the Last Airbender. In elementary school, my friends and I would play pretend that we were in the world of powerful benders; we reenacted scenes in our unfinished basements, splashed each other in epic Waterbending fights in our Easy Set pools, and had Agni ...

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