The annual three-day music festival Lollapalooza will consume all of Chicago once more with music, food and out-of-state travellers July 31-Aug. 2 at its usual territory: Grant Park. While the lineup this...

To those who compared Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore effort, good kid, m.A.A.d city, to a movie I would say that Lamar’s latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, is more of a hip-hopera. The album runs for 79...

If life is like a box of chocolates, poetry is like the glass of milk to accompany it, because no matter how thick, dark or bitter life can be, poetry will be able to smooth its flavors. With Sarah Kay’s...

When Earl Sweatshirt’s first commercial album, Doris, was released in 2013, its style was something of a surprise. Poetic, introspective and occasionally amelodic, it avoided the lyrical thrills of his...

There have been a fair share of biopics in the last decade, but there are few that truly manage to encapsulate the crux of an individual’s life accomplishments. Selma, an Oscar nominee for Best Picture,...

From haunting spirits to murderous clowns, a new popular anthology is making its viewers howl in fear. In its fourth installment, FX’s hit series American Horror Story: Freak Show is set in a dying freak...

I left Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) feeling like I had just witnessed my first poetry slam. An eccentric drum beat gave rhythm to the film as Michael Keaton, Ed Norton, Emma Stone, Zach...

Stephen Hawking is a physicist who has pioneered trailblazing theories explaining the nature of the universe. He is also an author who wrote multiple books detailing such theories. A husband and a father...

Taylor Swift has once again proved that she isn’t leaving the spotlight any time soon. On Oct. 27, Swift released her fifth studio album, titled 1989—to reflect both the year of her birth and the era...

Any movie that chalks up a duration time of more than two hours is already biting off more than it can chew, not only from the overpriced popcorn buckets of movie-goers, but from the attention spans of...