We didn’t ask, but NBC has delivered. It’s the spinoff of the spinoff of the original: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit: Organized Crime. Photo from eonline.com. “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” premiered it’s first episode of its spinoff, “Law & Order: Organized Crime” last week, and it definitely had me reminiscing of the…
Student Entertainment Committee hosted “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer in a moderated Zoom to discuss acting, fashion and activism. Photo from variety.com On Wednesday, March 24, the University of Rhode Island’s Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) hosted Hunter Schafer, model, actress and LGBTQ+ rights activist, for a moderated discussion on Zoom. Moderated by alumnus Shawn Antoine III,…
Everyone knows John Greene’s “The Fault in Our Stars,” but there’s another book of his that you should really be looking at. Photo from amazon.com. When I was 13, I read John Green’s most famous novel, “The Fault in Our Stars,” and, like most people who read it in middle school, loved it. I finished…
A look into the life of a 1990’s child star. Photo from aceshowbiz.com. Anemoia. Noun. Nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. This is what I searched on Google about an hour into the Hulu documentary “Kid 90.” I was born in 2000. I’m not a “90s kid.” I’ve never seen an episode of “Punky…
March saw some big releases in music, but what are the standouts? Photo from billboard.com Spring has sprung, and so has a new season for music releases. Here are some of my favorite albums and tracks from March 2021. Pop trio COIN released their album “Green Blue + Indigo Violet” that added some addicting new…
The true confessions of a Paramore stan. Photo from billboard.com. Up until the age of 11, my taste in music ran parallel with those who immediately surrounded me. I found comfort in my parents’ favorite artists, while still following popular pre-teen favorites and listening to Disney movie soundtracks. Then I heard the hit song “The…
After Joss Whedon’s critical failure that came out in 2017, the “Snyder Cut” was always going to be an improvement over what came before. Photo from the verge.com. In January, film director Zach Snyder took to Twitter to announce the release of his long-awaited director’s cut of the 2017 DC Comics movie “Justice League.” It…
Netflix tackles the college admissions scandal that shook the nation in 2019 in new documentary. Photo from variety.com. The newly-released Netflix documentary “Operation Varsity Blues” paints a cautionary tale of greed, corruption and competition in the college admission process following the 2019 scandal. The documentary follows the mastermind behind the decades long fraudulent college application…
Hot on the heels of “WandaVision,” the newest release on Disney+, “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” keeps the Marvel-mania alive. Photo from imbd.com On the heels of “WandaVision,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe has released their second Disney+ show, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” which tackles issues of racism and trauma in a post-Blip…
The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography put on a virtual event on March 29 featuring speaker Anthony Geffen that brought viewers through a journey of immersive storytelling and gave a sneak peek into the future of technology, teaching audience members that it’s not far from becoming our reality. Anthony Geffen is the…