“Grown-ish,” a spinoff of wildly popular ABC sitcom “Black-ish,” centered around Yara Shahidi’s Zoey Johnson and her foray into college at the fictional Cal U. As a show unapologetic in its comedic critiques of college life, it often speaks on the many trends that...
Summertime is a look into the art of culture and resurgence. This year’s particular summer basked in the emergence of catchphrases plastered over social media, artists and fashion renewing itself in L.A.’s unforgivable heat. It’s a moment to breathe as time passes...
Existing in the summer is often a test of the extent of one’s busyness. It’s a look at how far we can stretch ourselves until we’re careening off the edge, wondering: where did the summer go? In the recent years, there has been a disillusionment to what we all...
A conversation with Meg Donnelly is, in complete honesty, refreshing. In the grand scheme of all things Hollywood, it’s easy for a budding star to be swept up in the overwhelming catalyst to fame. Starring in shows like "American Housewife," and Disney’s "Zombies,"...
It was supposed to be easy — freshman year of high school. The formative mere moments before the inevitable distress of who goes to what college, and worrying about grades, money, standardized testing. It was meant to be a dip into the sebum pond, a tentative...
Ask any kid shakingly gripping their Scantron before a history exam (it’s a plea for help). Ask any adult, even those whose years of immersing themselves with memorizing trivial dates, or names of dead white people in history, have since been lodged deep in the...
When we think Asians in Hollywood, we’re more often than not talking about the meager roles stolen and given to white actors and actresses instead (I can’t wait to see Scarlett Johansson in the new "Mulan" live-action). The main focus of Asian American activism in the...
It’s not easy to be a young person in America. Today’s society always reiterates that authority comes with age, routinely allowing adults to dismiss young people and invalidate their experiences. It’s just too easy to label young people as incompetent. Those in...
On the surface, Lana Condor is like any 21-year-old. She’s learning how Twitter works (does anyone know how it really works?), obsessing over coffee and noodles, and trying to figure out the whole adult thing with the unknown prospect of what tomorrow brings. She's...
https://youtu.be/mTLc_RzqaJc The trailer for "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before," Netflix’s new addition to their string of rom-coms, just dropped, and I’m visibly shaking, literally on the floor in tears, I’m so excited. The movie stars Lana Condor, who you might...
