Book Review: ‘Crying In H Mart’ by Michelle Zauner
I interviewed Michelle years ago when she was releasing her next album after Psychopomp, and she said that she wanted to travel to Korea and write a book someday… and […]
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Book Review: ‘Yellowface’ by R.F. Kuang
Ahh, a Reese’s Book Club pick! Here I am in the middle of filming season two of The Pitt, and I’m looking for another book to read on set. I’ve […]
Book Review: ‘Stay True’ by Hua Hsu
I picked up this book about two weeks ago when I saw it on display during a trip home to the Bay for Mother’s Day. It was showcased as one […]
Re: How craving attention makes you less creative, by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I stumbled on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s TED Talk from 2019 earlier this week, and couldn’t help but feel compelled to share it. “If your creativity is driven by a desire to […]
‘The Last of Us’ HBO Series World Premiere: Here Are My Thoughts
It’s the start of a new year and the post-holiday slump is in full force (safe to say, most of us are still dragging our feet as we get back […]
How I cope with social media as someone who is always on it, but has boundaries
A series in: I am no expert, but here’s what I know. As someone who constantly engages with social media, for personal or work, there’s been a great deal of distance […]
Give Mandy Moore’s Penultimate Moment as Rebecca Pearson in ‘This Is Us’ an Emmy
We look to characters and music and art for reflections of ourselves. I meant to share this weeks ago when This Is Us ended, but I just now have a […]
‘How Music Can Make You Better’ Book Review: A fascinating look into how Music and the Mind intersect
How Music Can Make You Better by Indre ViskontasMy rating: 4 of 5 stars I just finished reading this fantastic little 100-pager in one-sitting and absolutely loved it. It’s an […]
‘Like a Rolling Stone’ documentary shows how Ben Fong-Torres was more than ‘Almost Famous’
That man is Ben Fong-Torres, and upon first look, seeing an Asian American kid writing bylines and headlines in the early heyday of Rolling Stone comes as quite a shock. […]
Miley Cyrus is the icon of our generation: “Doll Parts,” Plastic Hearts and being wise beyond her years
For those of you who know me, I am an avid (and shameless) fan of Miley Cyrus. I’ve been on a Miley spiral for the past few days and can’t […]
Thoughts I Had While Watching Seven Seasons of ‘Gilmore Girls’ for the First Time, Ever
Call me late to the game, but I have joined the world of Stars Hollow and fallen in love with the girls we know as the Gilmore Girls, twenty years after […]
‘A Thousand Cuts’ Review: Alarming documentary reveals Maria Ressa’s fight for press freedom in the Philippines
In a country embattled with an authoritarian president, Ramona S. Diaz’s documentary shows how an attack on press freedom and weaponized social media can turn a nation in favor of […]
‘The Last of Us: Part 2’ Review: A dark and emotionally brutal masterpiece of a game
All I could say by the end of The Last of Us: Part II was, “Wow. My heart hurts so much right now.” Touted as a tale of revenge, the game incurs conflicted […]
‘Birds of Prey’ Review: Margot Robbie fantabulously emancipates Harley Quinn from the Joker, and she shines
They say to make a good story, you have to start from the beginning. Birds of Prey, the dazzling, female-fronted action epic about the super-heroine sidekick with no real superpowers […]
Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ Shows How Incredibly Damaging Yet Rewarding the High Intensity Sport Actually Is
Little did I know that before binging Netflix’s newest docu-series Cheer, that I’d be completely engulfed in the world of this collegiate sport. Now, I am no way near calling myself […]
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