Here’s some advice
You really don’t need my advice—and that’s why I’m going to give it to you. Throughout our lives, we are taught to depend on others and to learn from their experiences. I remember my overnight here as...
View Article‘Harry Potter’ play dives into the series’ past
This review contains spoilers. Time is messy. This theme, while not novel, still proves something of a revelation in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the stage play performed in two separate parts...
View ArticleThe importance of flossing
Why doesn’t the general public floss? Think about that question very carefully before you respond. Maybe it’s due to the inherent gross quality of the act itself. Maybe it’s because most people really...
View ArticleLiberals can learn better ways to talk to conservatives
Like many of you, I am shocked and horrified by what our country voted for this week (although it’s looking like Hillary Clinton might actually win the popular vote by almost two points). I know that...
View ArticlePredicting Tuesday’s Oscar nominations
Who’s going to be nominated for Academy Awards on Tuesday? Well, despite a seemingly endless season of speculation, no one really knows—the Academy is infamous for its singular taste. But, hey, let’s...
View ArticleIn “La La Land,” an old-fashioned type of love thrives
“This thing that almost never was still beckons […] They can never undo it, never unwrite it, never unlive it or relive it—it’s just stuck there like a vision of fireflies on a summer field toward...
View ArticleOscars predictions read ‘La La Land’ triumph
2017 Oscar Predictions: On Febr. 26, the Academy Awards could go one of two ways: either “La La Land,” the film of the moment, is going to sweep and potentially tie or break the record for most Oscar...
View ArticleCT recommends: ‘Jackie’
“I never wanted fame. I just became a Kennedy.” This line is merely one of many contradictory statements strewn throughout “Jackie,” Pablo Larraín’s biopic of the iconic first lady. You might not...
View ArticleOn self-important social media
If there’s one thing I cannot stand, it’s people who feel the need to post every positive aspect of their life on social media. Like, I really don’t need to see you and your boyfriend posing for a...
View ArticleYou’re right about ‘Mother!’
Depending on whom you ask, “Mother!” is a tragic opus detailing the destruction of the environment; “Mother!” is a minimalist retelling of both the Old and New Testaments; and “Mother!” is an intensely...
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