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I was 12 years old when I became enamored with a shiny new boy band called One Direction. I was living in Westchester county, nestled somewhere above Manhattan. The winters were cold and the snow never seemed to stop until April. Having moved from the loud city below it, I suppose living in quiet Westchester was supposed to give me peace of mind…

As one of five lumberjack siblings from New York, Farley Elliot didn’t think he would find himself in Los Angeles writing about taco trucks. Watertown, New York is the home to huge trees, a gas station, a run down diner, a Mini Mart off the freeway and a Denny’s with a bouncer. It’s clear that he didn’t have much to work with in terms of restaurants…

In between the controversies and memorable moments that the year 1998 brought, something beautiful happened. In the sticky, New York City heat that the month of August tends to bring, a storm was brewing. The Fugees were hot in the 90s but Lauryn Hill, also known as L-Boogie (or, the best Fugee emcee)- was hotter…

You’re in the backseat of your parent’s car driving down the road on your way to school. The radio is on and the music playing sounds almost like a fantasy. It’s full of synth, it has a nice beat, the vocals are echoey and dreamy. If it could be connected to a color it would be bright blue with hints of pink and purple, and a touch of glitter…

It’s March 13th, opening night of Beauty and The Beast at Huntington Beach High School’s Academy of the Performing arts, and everyone is in a frenzy. The week prior consisted of constant rehearsals, from 5 pm until 10 pm. High school senior Kaitlyn Campbell has been working tech for most of her high school career, so this isn't anything new to her…

When you think of the term witchcraft, you might think of the beloved book and film series Harry Potter, or perhaps you might think of something a little more evil. Maybe Angelica Houston in The Witches, or you might be thinking back to old fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, where a witch wanted to fatten up the children and eventually gobble them up…

The evening starts off in a smoke filled LA Regent Theatre, where a pair of hands rise and more follow in hot pursuit as a member of the New York based band Antibalas plays a killer trumpet solo. It was on this Thursday night that I discovered that instruments like trumpets and trombones can riff just as amazingly as an electric guitar…

Alli Fisher, a recent college graduate living in San Francisco, is getting ready for a first date. She’s been talking to someone on Hinge, a popular dating app, for a couple of days now and is preparing herself for the small talk that will soon follow an awkward first time greeting. She pours herself a glass of wine, goes to her desk, opens her laptop and the date begins…

2020 truly felt like the end. The impending end of humanity, the apocalypse, or “doomsday,” if you will. With the quarantine going into effect last March, and the newfound battle with COVID-19, natural disasters running rampant across the country, and a (now former) U.S. president who wasn’t doing anything to alleviate the struggles but instead spreading false information about the deadly virus- 2020 felt like the end of times…