The disheartening case of RIIZE’s Seunghan Imagine being a middle schooler and receiving several offers from multiple entertainment companies – including one of South Korea’s most renowned and reputable agencies that has fostered the biggest names in K-pop. Imagine training for two and a half years at this company, with people all around the world… Continue reading K-pop and feeding into unhealthy fan delusions for profit
Month: November 2024
Who Would Have Guessed
Op-ed Democrats lied about Biden’s cognitive health for almost two years. He was unfit for the office and certainly not fit to run a presidential campaign. It took an embarrassing debate performance for the Democratic leadership to act and choose a “winning” candidate —something they ultimately failed to do. Biden was unpopular, old, and unwell.… Continue reading Who Would Have Guessed
INDULGING IN NOSTALGIA
It’s raining outside, and the textbooks are almost menacing in the dim light. It’s a normal, predictable autumn day, and all I can feel is nostalgia—nostalgia for my family, my home, for another time. What is nostalgia? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some… Continue reading INDULGING IN NOSTALGIA
MusicAeterna: Reimagining Classical Music
MusicAeterna is an innovative musical project which consists of an orchestra, a choir, and a dance troupe under the leadership of the Greek-Russian conductor Theodor Currentzis. It was founded in 2004 in Novosibirsk, Siberia’s largest city, which was an unusual place for an innovative ensemble, since it is far away from Russia’s 2 cultural capitals,… Continue reading MusicAeterna: Reimagining Classical Music