Opinion

A friend of mine once told me about a conversation he had in high school. His friend admitted that whenever he was driving, he felt the urge to jump out of the car while it was speeding down the freeway.

When asked during an interview with Queerty, an LGBT news organization, if the characters Bert and Ernie were a gay couple, former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman responded that “they were.”

Ever in the mood to listen to something a little different than the usual Spotify or Apple Music playlists?

It’s a fact that amazing television shows have been cancelled. Looking back, some cancellations can clearly be seen as a huge mistake.

Currently, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is in an anti-drug crusade that echoes the expression “the end justify the means,” or in his words, “I have a duty to preserve the [next] generation. If it involves human rights, I don’t give a shit.”

FYF 2018 has been canceled, and the organizers explain that they “felt unable to present an experience on par with expectations of our loyal fans and the Los Angeles music community this year.” Other outlets, however, are reporting a more direct explanation: poor ticket sales.

Unless you’ve been in a study room for the past week, you’ve experienced the surge of social media posts about the 2018 Met Gala, the Super Bowl for fashion fans wherein celebrities have designer clothes made for them to celebrate the industry and evoke a specific theme that changes every year.

In terms of diversity, Hollywood has made some progress in recent times, with films like “A Wrinkle in Time,” “Black Panther,” “Girl’s Trip” and “Ocean’s Eight” featuring more women and people of color in starring roles.

“Padmaavat,” a Bollywood production, has been the subject of intense contention in India. In fact, it has started numerous riots around the country and massive uprisings amongst the conservative far-right Hindu population of India.

Celebrity is a powerful thing. Once we get it into our heads that a given public figure has earned our continuing attention, it becomes difficult to look at them from any other perspective.

No other aspect of college life has captivated America’s morbid fascination more than fraternities, organizations veiled in an aura of mystery and elitism that offer society an easy scapegoat for the problems that have tormented universities for decades, if not centuries.

Orange County has the reputation of being undisputedly affluent. It is the place where Newport residents sail their yachts and visit their beach...