Hollywood is notorious for its failure to represent non-white perspectives on screen. Leads, directors and worlds are predominantly white. Aesthetics, creative visions of fantasy landscapes, future utopias and colors are depicted in line with a […]
HBO’s big-budget forays into television have reinvigorated the medium in the past decade, creating series with influence extending so far beyond the screen that they become nothing short of cultural phenomena. “Game of Thrones” amassed […]
In the humdrum of quotidian life, it is quite easy to lose track of oneself — to lose that sense of perspective on who one is and what one is capable of. Donning several different […]
Last week David Duchovny released his second studio album “Every Third Thought” — yes, that David Duchovny. Apparently the “X-Files” actor decided in 2015 to try his hand at music, and fans could be forgiven […]
In three weeks, the Atlanta Science Festival returns for a fifth year. Running from March 9 to 24, the festival includes over 100 events throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area. From the first event to the […]
Five cameras, 20 sets, 70 puppets and 16 people walk into the Ferst Center for the Arts for two nights, and each night they film a movie in one take and in real time. Somehow, […]
Imagine an episode of the wildly popular “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” in which the crass and womanizing Dennis Reynolds becomes an A.P. Biology teacher. The concept has a lot of potential; the vulgar and […]
It has become conventional wisdom that the rock star mentality has infiltrated hip hop. The two genres have always had similarities in their philosophies but almost never had a big sharing of fan bases. In […]
On Feb. 2, Awolnation released its newest studio album titled “Here Come the Runts.” Prior to the release of the record, the band’s frontman and leading songwriter Aaron Bruno expressed a desire to reinvent the […]
After weeks of promotion, the “Super Bowl Sunday” episode of family drama “This Is Us” aired after the actual Superbowl LII. The episode was highly anticipated as the reveal of how patriarch Jack Pearson (Milo […]
As American viewers, it is quite easy to be desensitized to discussions of prejudice. In most classroom discussions and in the media, there are clear aggressors and clear victims. To an extent, this trend is […]
In the quirky neighborhood of Reynoldstown, hundreds of people waited in the rain, their stomachs rumbling. They were promised a timeless dish; one that is so deeply rooted in ancient and modern Japanese culture: ramen. […]
Hand drawn animation is a dying artform. As more and more mainstream animated features are rendered in 3D, animated film seems to be losing its stylistic way. Films, like “The Good Dinosaur” and “Coco,” pine […]
Last week, Atlanta’s Buckhead Theater was absolutely lit up two nights in a row by an eclectic conglomerate of musicians who bill themselves as “America’s best boyband since One Direction.” If not familiar with the […]
The Swedish sister folk duo “First Aid Kit,” made up of Klara and Johanna Söderberg, has come a long way since their cover of the Fleet Foxes song “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” went viral on […]
For as long as hip-hop has existed, the genre has been a territorial, almost tribal affair. When poetry was coupled with record-scratching in New York’s poorest areas in the early 1980s, even the few different […]
Last week, the CW released “Black Lightning,” its newest DC superhero series. The show centers on the city of Freeland and its native hero Black Lightning’s crusade against the gang violence that plagues his hometown. […]
Many artists begin their artistic careers through imitation. They are drawn to art with the desire to recreate and claim for themselves the works that have inspired them. Some of these artists then mature beyond […]