Culture
Apple Music
The best streaming service is…
Many will say Spotify; some Apple Music; if you hang out with middle-aged mothers, some might Pandora — but what is the definitive answer?
Black-box
“Great Comet” shot too close to the sun
While UR’s production of “Great Comet” stunned as expected, I left the show with decidedly mixed opinions surrounding their unique interpretation of the source material.
Mid
Jason Momoa performs humiliation ritual in the form of “A Minecraft Movie”
As a whole, this movie was bad in about every way a movie can possibly be bad. ’m not quite pretentious enough to pretend the purpose of “A Minecraft Movie” is to provide a great work of art to an adult population of English majors.
Album
Jane Remover “Revengeseekerz” follows no rules
Forget Playboi Carti — Jane has embraced the popular rage sound that is dominating rap right now but injected it with steroids and cybernetic limbs to create a blown-out, techno-orgy of throttling beats, sassy vocals, and tuneful melodies.
on campus
National Book Award Finalist Maureen McLane Comes to UR
McLane was a National Book Award finalist for her collection “This Blue,” her work merges past and present, drawing on ancient texts — notably Sappho fragments — a contemplation of how human experiences are mediated by encounters with language and literature.
art
Spring blooms at the George Eastman Museum’s “Dutch Connection
“I saw fresh flowers in February — in Rochester” is a sentence I never thought I would say.
fashion
Should you follow fashion trends?
Fashion trends can be exciting, but do they actually help us develop personal style, or do they just make us spend more money?
beauty standards
Dedicated to everyone in the movie theater who laughed at “The Substance”
“The Substance”, though quite effectively campy and satirical at times, is not a comedy.
Bad Tattoo
This is awkward: I have a full back tattoo of Kanye and Jay-Z passionately embracing
Last week, I was at the public pool, about to swim a few laps, but I couldn’t even make it through one without being relentlessly mocked for my tattoo.