(Flickr) Cheers by Blackbear featuring Wiz Khalifa includes a positive message, with its optimistic lyrics that reach out to anyone hoping for better things in the new year, especially when it comes to missing friends, being on zoom and experiencing mood swings.  Blackbear has released 5 albums, 6 extended plays and 2 collaborative albums. His partner…

A portrait of Queen Charlotte, wife of the “mad” King George III. (Credit/Wikimedia Commons).   “Bridgerton,” based on its namesake book series, is Netflix’s most recent hit, first season released on December 25, 2020. By January 4, 2021, Netflix reported its 63 million viewers, and the numbers keep rising. The show follows the Bridgertons and…

(Wikimedia Commons) by Ceci Reitter’24 If you have never been to an Ariana Grande concert, this documentary tour is the next best thing. It follows Grande on her tumultuous “sweetener” trip, featuring “God is a woman” and “no tears left to cry.” The film is mostly set in London. Runtime is 1 hr 37 minutes and…

(Pixabay) by Abigail Zhou’24 Unlike its predecessors, Dream Home Makeover does not flip houses or feature about designers’ competitionsdesigners. Instead, it focuses on a work-life balance to help us during our quarantine. The first season begins with Shea and Syd McGee, owners of Studio McGee, and follows the couple’s dynamic renovations.  Syd is less  involved with…

(Milana Biswas’24/Staff) Tropical Smoothie, known for its hearty beverages, makes me a fan of its Acai Berry Boost ($4.99), a blend of acai, pomegranate, banana, blueberries, and strawberries.  This cage’s menu the  popularTurkey Bacon Ranch burger ($6.99) and is a hotspot for people looking to reshape their calorie intake. Located on 5792 North Hamilton Road…

Somali cuisine at Hoyo’s Kitchen (Credit/Pixabay). Columbus houses around 60,000 Somali people, the second largest concentration in the country. Yet this population didn’t have its cuisine properly represented in Columbus’s food scene until Hoyo’s Kitchen opened up in its first location in 2014. It didn’t catch fire until adding a location at North Market in…

Colin Harrison’23 as Tom Wingfield and Ryan Reagan ‘as Jim O’Connor. (Courtesy/Grace Harrison 19)  Academy staged a cast of powerful performances of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie on January 21-23 in our Schoedinger Theatre, directed by Scott Dillon, who cast the show with understudies to account for any delays-per the pandemic. Thursday’s understudies of juniors Rosie Gruber, Raaghuv…

(Pixabay) 2020 was long and exhausting. Death to 2020 may make some viewers laugh at it. But for others to not. Released to Netflix on December 27, 2020, running for an hour and ten minutes and rated TV-MA, it stars Samuel L. Jackson, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Keery, and Hugh Grant.  The plot begins in January and captures factual…

(Wikimedia Commons)   In its tribute to the campy 80’s slasher films, American Horror Story: 1984 covers ghosts, serial killers, and bloodshed in an overwhelming rushed season.  The plot follows five friends in the summer of 1984 as they escape to Camp Redwood to work as counselors, but the camp’s murderous past comes to light…

(flickr.com)   When viewers plan to watch Netflix’s new series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and expect to see a horror show-they will find quite the opposite.   The Haunting of Bly Manor is about a young woman named Dani (Victoria Pedretti) who takes a job as an au pair at an English manor, caring two…