“[O]n a bike by yourself, there’s a cool breeze on your face and you’re looking back on your whole life, considering the entire world and everything that everything means,” is the best way to listen...
Ed Sheeran’s eighth studio album, “Play,” released Sept. 12 with singles such as “Sapphire” and “In Other Words,” featuring songs with a variety of sounds. Whether it is the nostalgic sound...
“The Notebook,” the 2024 musical of the same name as Nicholas Sparks’s 1996 novel and its 2004 film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, has humongous cultural shoes to fill in the...
Trigger warning: brief discussion of sexual abuse and suicide.
Next week, Oct. 5 through 11, is Banned Books Week. For the uninitiated, a book is challenged when a concern is brought up by...
The time is 8 p.m., Friday night. Writers are given a prompt: “Master of Deception.” They get their start and it is off to the races. The scripts are finished by that morning, actors and directors...
This past Sunday, popular YouTube Commentator and famed “Mayor of Kurtistown” Kurtis Conner stopped into the Mimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square for his “Goodfellow World Tour.” His style of...
Esha Bagora, Social Media Editor
• September 19, 2025
After an agonizing two-year wait, Netflix’s teen romance series “My Life with the Walter Boys” has finally returned with its highly anticipated second season. Based on Ali Novak’s popular Wattpad...
Being able to write about “Hollow Knight: Silksong” as a finished product is a surreal experience. The development took place over six long years of near-total silence from the developers—six years...
Anlin Wei, Contributing Writer
• September 19, 2025
The Cleveland Orchestra’s opening weekend approaches. The 2025-26 season at Severance Hall kicks off with a three-day run: Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 28 at 3:00 p.m. The run...
This past week, I took contributing writer Anlin Wei’s advice and went to see Conan Gray live in Cuyahoga Falls’ Blossom Music Center for “The Wishbone Pajama Show.” I have been a Conan Gray fan...
