Warning: This review will contain spoilers for both The Sopranos and its prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. There is one single moment in…
Posts published by “Julian Ford”
There is a sense of bewilderment when one steps through the halls of UMBC this semester. The campus staples in the Commons, once empty, are…
Exactly five days after Kanye West released his long-anticipated 10th LP Donda, on September 3, Toronto-born rapper Drake released his sixth studio album, Certified Lover…
Like many award shows, the Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, have become something of an institution within American culture. Because of this, many people…
The documentary “Dark City Beneath the Beat,” originally screened at the online-only 2020 South by Southwest film festival, hit Netflix on April 16, 2021, nearly…
The new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, “G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END,” starts as might be expected for any longtime GY!BE fans: all droning, all…
A little over a year ago, I penned an article dubbed “Entertainment in the streaming age.” Though it started out as a decent fluff piece…
Last Monday, French electronic-house supergroup Daft Punk announced their departure from music-making with a YouTube video titled simply, “Daft Punk – Epilogue.” The video itself,…
“If you study the culture and art of African Americans you are not studying a regional or minor culture. What you are studying is America.…
If you are a college student, chances are you have already run into the term mindfulness at least a few times. Defined quite simply as…
2020 has certainly given the world a good deal to be afraid of, but in cinematic circles, the scares have been coming for a while…
With the latest election cycle, the nation faced a lot of anxiety, a lot of hope and, perhaps least surprisingly, a lot of cynicism. In…
“I hate a song that makes you think you’re not any good. I hate a song that makes you think you’re just born to lose,…
About two weeks ago, the LA-based psychpop band Sunrose made an Instagram post that drew in some serious attention. The post itself was fairly unassuming,…
In the brief period of 2020 before the pandemic forced many students off campus, the UMBC Pep Band could have been found at any and…
Maybe this sounds familiar. After another long, exhausting day of treading water in the Coronavirus doldrums — laundry work, fixing meals, watching shows, trying not…