With the rise of modern technology and social media, young people are generally choosing to spend their free time differently than older generations did. Beyond passionate readers, students are spending less of their free time reading for pleasure.
2020 was a year full of hardship, but even the darkest moments were defined by a memorable soundtrack. Here’s a look back through the hits.
Only five months after releasing folklore, Taylor Swift gifted the world with another album: evermore. With evermore's songs about lost love and hard relationships, the album displays Swift's storytelling genius at its most intimate level.
Amid a difficult 2020 for the theater industry, Warner Bros. delivers another disastrous blow by announcing its biggest blockbusters will be going directly to HBO Max in 2021. With streaming habits already on the rise, increased accessibility to content previously reserved for theaters could spell the end of mainstream movie-going.
Virally popular music coming from a town of about 900 people might be surprising, but thanks to the internet and TikTok, Aubrey Key's music has reached hundreds of thousands of people.
The BullStreet District is expected to welcome a new Starbucks and brewery this year, and remains on track for a 2034 completion.
Paying closer attention to the way women in the political sphere choose to dress could help to reveal more about their personal values, what causes they support and what symbolic meanings they want to covey to the public.
Tzima Brown has gone through highs and lows as a Five Points business owner, with an outlook as bright as her yellow storefront.
It's Sagittarius season. Whether you are Sagittarius or not, you will feel the fire sign's energy when you listen to this playlist of the week.
We hear their stories often. We watch movies and documentaries about online pedophiles and the fears that come with the freedoms of the internet. Young girls are being manipulated by online predators who lure their victims with kind words and trusting support. Soon after, these children go missing and are most often never seen again.
The Nutcracker returns to Columbia for it's 60th year of holiday magic. The Columbia City Ballet's unique, masked performance will reflect the changes brought about by 2020.
The Women in Music organization has been making progress since it was founded in 1985, but its work is not over yet. Local female artists share their opinion on being women in the music industry.
Netflix's and David Fincher's latest collaboration "Mank" follows the career of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his work on the screenplay of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane." The film ultimately serves as a counterpart to "Kane," with similarly harsh social critiques that are infused with Fincher's disdain for the Hollywood system that has defined much of his career.
Bang Back Pinball Lounge in Five Points serves an eclectic array of fun, food and nostalgia.
Rocbottom Studios is a successful Columbia comic book artist and animator. In addition to working on exciting new projects, he is fighting against conventional ideas of art, providing opportunities for smaller artists and doing what he can to make Columbia's art scene more diverse.
This playlist of songs provides an escape to the synth-filled world of the 1980s through modern and classic artists of the genre.
From 1983 to 2019, these five movies and TV episodes are perfect for Thanksgiving Day viewing.
