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Buonomo: Billie Eilish romanticizes serious mental illnesses

October 13, 2019

Every generation has its own version of a social counterculture: a group of teenagers and young adults that embody angst, oppose the establishment and embrace the label “outcast.” Wearing their status...

Off Script: Hollywood, stop pushing the tragic mulatto trope

February 12, 2019

The Bold Type is a Freeform show about three women who work for the fictional Scarlet magazine, a publication similar to Cosmopolitan. The show feels like a contemporary reaction to Sex and the City, a...

Burg: Why keeping up with pop culture is worth it

October 12, 2014

On Saturday I heard someone say we’re now embarking on week four of this quarter, and I felt slightly sick. Could time really be moving that slowly? In my mind I’d already done a quarter’s worth...

The Rundown: Week of Oct. 20

October 23, 2013

Kanye West, Kim Kardashian engaged Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian on Monday by renting out an entire baseball stadium, complete with a full orchestra and a Jumbotron reading, “PLEEEASE MARRY...

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