Since its release in early 2019, Patrick Radden Keefe’s book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland ” has received non-stop critical acclaim and for good reason. The book reads like a captivating fiction novel yet it follows a true story of several people involved in the...
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Singer, songwriter and bass virtuoso Thundercat has returned with his fourth studio album “It Is What It Is,” three years after his widely acclaimed project “Drunk.” I came into this LP with high hopes as I was still riding the high of seeing Thundercat live a few months back...
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I think we can all agree that as the year 2020 progresses, life keeps getting stranger and stranger. One chaotic situation seems to pile on top of the next; with so many relationships ending, threats of war, fires terrorizing our earth, cultural icons passing onto the next life so...
The New York Times Bestselling novel, “Red, White, and Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston, takes readers to a world that fights for love rather than hate. The book follows a forbidden romance between the son of an American president, Alex, and the Prince of England, Henry. As both men struggle to uphold...
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After two years of silence, indie-pop trio San Cisco released their EP, “Flaws” to little fanfare. The EP as a whole is as stripped down as their promotion— frontman Jordi Davieson’s vocals are rich but simple, the melodies that run through the tracks are emotional, but not overwhelming...
The intellectual heritage of the Middle East is central to Zeyn Joukhadar’s debut novel “The Map of Salt and Stars” as he presents a double tale of the voyages of two young girls between the contemporary Middle East and its empire-studded far past.
Beginning in present-day Manhattan, Nour is...
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PARTYNEXTDOOR’s “PARTYMOBILE” has come to fans four years after his last full-length, “PARTYNEXTDOOR 3” (P3). Although it breaks the naming convention of their past projects, this album does not shy away from the moody straight-talk-dependent rhythm and blues (R&B) that put his genre-defining sound on the...
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Music is a wonderful thing, it can lift us up when we are feeling down, and vice versa. As we face a pandemic, it’s nice to take a moment to just … dance. As Dua Lipa prepared the launch of her sophomore album, no one could have predicted the...
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Hype for the Doom franchise has been reignited ever since “Doom,” (2016) a reinterpretation of id Software’s classic title, ended up surprising audiences by being really good. Its sequel, “Doom Eternal,” is here to further satiate our need for repackaged ‘90s nostalgia in a modern context. Playing “Doom Eternal”...
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2020 has certainly been an interesting year for the gaming industry thus far. For starters, the gaming space has been in a relatively good place with more and more game developers creating titles that utilize the current hardware quite well. There are so many new titles on the horizon in...