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This summer, hip-hop artists are dominating the charts, claiming more than half of the spots in the Top 10. Radio listeners can’t seem to catch a break from Cardi B’s “I Like It” or Drake’s hit “God’s Plan.”
All good things must come to an end, and Vans Warped Tour is no exception. Founded by Kevin Lyman in 1995, the festival is credited with propelling bands like Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance to global success.
Summer tends to get a bad rap in the cinema calendar, full of blockbusters and superhero flicks. And, yes, we’ve got yet another movie that features Chris Pratt running from dinosaurs, but there’s no shortage of great cinema to be had this season.
Just in time for summer binge-watching, the second season of “Queer Eye” dropped on Netflix June 15. Season two enhances what is good about “Queer Eye,” all while showing how a makeover show can be about so much more than physical appearance.
I was 14 when I first watched Janelle Monae’s unabashed, unflinching “Q.U.E.E.N.” Although the music video doesn’t make any explicit references to LGBTQ+ identity, its unapologetic flourishing of abnormal selfdom earned it the honor of being deemed “queer,” at least in my eyes.
About three and a half weeks ago, I landed in Charlotte, N.C., the Queen City. At first, I was swept up by the novelty of a new place — this is my first time in Charlotte, and I wanted to see everything.
It’s sort of amusing that “Man on the Moon II” was the album that I gravitated toward as a 12-year-old. (Imagine me bobbing my head along to lyrics about alcohol and marijuana while I worked on my algebra homework.)
The rollout of “ye,” the eighth album from Kanye West, followed the script that has come to define new releases from the artist.
North Carolina has a rich history of film. Wilmington, N.C., has been called both “Hollywood East” and “Wilmywood” due to its appearance in a number of movies and TV shows.
For a time, Snow Patrol was the best part of a fairly stagnant period of rock music.
By the time LDOC actually came, spring was in full ripeness.
Beach House have already carved out their spot in music history. For over a decade, the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally has served as a guiding light for dream pop, paving the way for a genre that has permeated rock far more than it’s given credit for.
My vision of the '80s, a decade that began and ended years before my life did, begins and ends with “Age of Consent.”
Honestly, I’m not sure where I even got the idea to sporadically sample more than 65 lunch and dinner entrées off the everyday menus of 10 of the Brodhead Center’s 13 vendors (and battle food poisoning twice along the way), but all that matters is the idea came, and I pursued it until it became a reality.
While the repeated stylistic left turns of artists like Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar are exciting, a long and gradual artistic maturation can be just as satisfying.
“Isle of Dogs” creates an assemblage of cultural allusions and references that would resonate not only with Japan culture nerds in America but with a nostalgic generation of Japanese adults.
If you had told me last spring that I'd be going to Carolina Cup this year, I'd have thought it was some lame April Fools’ joke.
Though fun and lighthearted, “Queer Eye” isn’t doing much for homosexual representation in 2018.
Steven Spielberg’s latest doesn’t stand strong enough without its references to engage most audience members.
Only a cast as talented as the troupe assembled in “The Death of Stalin” could have made the film’s devious subjects sources of comedy.
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