On Sept. 18, 2001, the world was introduced to the young musician John Mayer.  Columbia Records released “Room for Squares,” an album that defined the acoustic-pop landscape of the early 2000s...

To call this book strange would be an understatement. Katherine Dunn’s 1989 literary horror masterpiece “Geek Love” is utter insanity. The work was released in 1989 to critical acclaim, becoming...

I spent a good portion of November reading Mark Z. Danielewski’s 2025 Western “Tom’s Crossing.” The book, while fictional, is presented as a historical work, with its unnamed narrator reflecting...

Written by American author Henry Miller, “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare” is a poignant and lasting piece of non-fiction, mainly due to the fact that the book displays an America not so dissimilar from...

The debate surrounding who is allowed to tell and enjoy queer stories continues to accompany conversations about queer male media. Because I don’t live under a rock, I've heard about HBO’s “Heated...

Most noble and illustrious readers, I am about to introduce you to the finest, most verbose, most grotesque, most carnivalesque and fun work of literature ever produced by man. Published in the early...

It’s not surprising to see naked women in Classical art. If anything, it’s expected. However, female bodies and nudity are deemed taboo in modern society, according to an April 3, 2023 article from...

On Oct. 3, Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”  To say that I and many other fans were disappointed is an understatement. From her lackluster and overused electronic...

When my roommate came home from an ultimate frisbee tournament one weekend proclaiming that “KPop Demon Hunters” was the best movie of all time, I knew the time had finally come to sit down and review...

Like many people, I could not have cared less for Sabrina Carpenter until last summer. The tongue-in-cheek lyrics and catchy tunes of “Short n’ Sweet” revived my interest in pop music, and since...

On Friday, Sept. 5, David Byrne’s eighth core studio album “Who Is The Sky?” hit streaming platforms. It’s been seven years since Byrne’s last studio album “American Utopia,” but he did...

With the release of her new single “The Giver,” Chappell Roan expands the genre and challenges the general societal consensus of what country music is and who can write it. “Good luck finding...