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All photos by: Sydney Rose Celebrating her debut album, superstar-in-the-making Reneé Rapp kicked off the Snow Hard Feelings tour at Bayou Music Center in Houston last Friday night. Rapp has been rising to fame since her Broadway debut in Mean Girls in 2019, and her successful debut album ‘Snow Angel’ has...

If you’ve ever wanted to see a giant mutant played by Ice Cube destroy New York while quoting rap classic “6 ‘N the Mornin”, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem is the film for you. Not sold yet? What if I told you that there’s a hippie gecko played by Post Malone? Or that Donatello wears a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure hoodie and...

The third studio album of Canadian R&B singer Daniel Caesar is one for the books. NEVER ENOUGH is a project full of emotions, vulnerability and raw talent. The last time Caesar released a project was in 2019 with the album ‘Case Study 01.’ After taking some time off, on April 7 the full-length album...

If ‘mirrorball’ by Taylor Swift were a person, it would be the character, Elise Hannaway from Ali Hazelwood’s latest novel, ‘Love, Theoretically.‘ There are many versions of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway. By day she is an adjunct professor, juggling her workload between three universities. By night, she...

The time has come to check in on your whimsical, cottage-core aesthetic, Greek-mythology-obsessed, most likely Queer friends. Hozier has just released another album. Hozier released his third studio album ‘Unreal Unearth’ on Aug. 18, four years after his last album ‘Wasteland, Baby!.’ Known for how he incorporates...

The second season of Netflix’s drama series ‘Heartstopper,’ based on the webcomic series by Alice Oseman brings storytelling of joyful, teen romance, typically only seen in media surrounding heterosexual characters, to the screen. Viewers continue watching the story between British teens, Nick and Charlie, unfold as...

On my latest murder mystery kick, I picked up “One of Us is Lying” by Karen M. McManus. This book went ninety miles an hour from start to finish, which led to me reading it all in one day. This story has many twists and turns that keep the reader guessing and wanting more. The book focuses on four teens from...

The first book in Lilith’s Brood trilogy, “Dawn” by Octavia E. Butler tells the story of Lilith Lyapo, an African American woman rescued by extraterrestrial species called the ‘Oankali’, who saved the remaining humans on Earth after a nuclear war. After centuries of suspended animation, Lilith wakes up on a spaceship...

After turning the world pink, critics have a lot to say about “Barbie” and its portrayal of feminism. As groups of women from all walks of life dressed in their best pink outfits for the movie, you can’t deny that Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” was able to unite women’s worst enemies together; women themselves. As...

Taylor Swift has taken on a project to rerecord her old albums, and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the halfway point for the artist. Originally released in 2010, Speak Now was the next album put out after Swift’s awarded album Fearless. This era for the artist was a shaping point for young girls growing up with...