Arts
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Astroworld: a preventable horror
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Far too often at music festivals, thrill turns into disaster. This was the case at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival on Nov. 5, where a massive crowd surge left ten people dead, including a nine-year-old boy, and hundreds reportedly injured. Scott was performing to a sold-out NRG Park stadium complex in Houston, Texas. Once he…
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YouTube has decided to privatize the dislike counter
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It was announced a week ago on one of their official channels that YouTube would be privatizing the dislike counter on all videos on their website, from the past and future. Naturally, the announcement video was flooded with dislikes within a few hours. One week ago, the change went into effect and visible dislikes are…
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Taylor Swift channels her past relationship heartbreak into new short film
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On Nov. 12, 2021, Taylor Swift’s first 15-minute short film was released. As many of Swift’s fans (or ‘Swifties’) will know, Swift has teased for a long time that there was a 10-minute version of her hit song “All Too Well” which was never released. Now, that song can be found on every streaming platform…
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Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” may be a signal to change the director needs
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It’s 1996 and a film came out called Bottle Rocket. The film itself was okay, a quirky romantic-comedy story with some off-beat and fun characters. You wouldn’t expect that kind of quality from the box office numbers though as it managed to only make back about a twelfth of what it cost to make the…
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Taylor Swift’s RED still resonates with fans, almost a decade after its release
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On Friday, Taylor Swift made Spotify history. In line with her pursuit to regain ownership of old albums, the 11-time Grammy award-winner unveiled Red (Taylor’s Version); a re-recording of her 2012 album Red. Within one day, the re-recorded version got 90.8 million Spotify streams and topped the U.S. iTunes album chart. Although it contains songs…
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Velvet Wells dazzles in Toronto Fringe Festival show “Djinn Joint”
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In what has been one of my more interesting experiences this term, I was invited to participate in Djinn Joint hosted by the one and only Velvet Wells. It was an event full of positivity, improvisation, music and fun. The show was presented digitally, as the pandemic prevents what would have otherwise have been an…
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How far should performers be willing to go for the sake of their art?
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I was recently watching Stanley Kubrik’s iconic horror The Shining (1980) with my friends (who were watching it for the first time). While watching, my friends talked about how impressed they were with the performances by Jack Nicolson and Danny Loyd. I felt it necessary then to point out how spectacular Shelly Duval’s performance was…
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Alec Baldwin’s position as a producer in the “Rust” shooting should be criticized more than his role an actor
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“One in a trillion” is how Alec Baldwin recently talked about the tragic accident on the set of Rust. It was on Oct. 21, when Alec Baldwin shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a gun that he believed to only be filled with blanks. It’s a story as wild as it is heartbreaking. It seems almost…
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Upcoming Robert Eggers film expected to be a hit
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Robert Eggers currently has two feature films to his name which many would deem as two of the finest horror films of the decade. The horror genre seems to be always evolving. There are usually a few prominent directors that help guide horror cinema. George Romero popularized the contemporary zombie movie single-handedly, John Carpenter has…
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What to expect from season 5 of Big Mouth
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“We really put these children through the ringer.” That line is said by the Shame Wizard, a character voiced by David Thewlis in the Netflix animated series Big Mouth Season 5 trailer — and it couldn’t be more true. Created by Nick Kroll, Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg and Mark Levin, Big Mouth has become one…
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