Arts & Culture

K-pop and feeding into unhealthy fan delusions for profit

November 26, 2024

11min Read

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

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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.

By Egemen Aray
November 21st, 2024
3min Read
Arts & Culture

 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

By Maria Francesca Ficarra
November 18th, 2024
5min Read
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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,

By The MMC Team
November 11th, 2024
5min Read
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Asians in bocconi

Experience of 9 Asian students in Italy. In the beginning of February, we went running. While passing a bar in a Porta Romana area, a group of middle aged men shouted at us “Ni hao”. We started laughing hysterically. It wasn’t that funny actually; the funny part though was this being a third occurrence in

By Aini Yeskhozhina and Aigerim Anuarbek
May 29th, 2024
22min Read
Arts & Culture

A duel of chess: Cinematography vs. The Human Mind

Ever since the beginning of time, art has been the most expressive human mechanism to treasure important events and permanently preserve profound emotions. It serves not only as a keeper of memories, but also as an active mean of identification and self-exploration.  The art of cinematography offers a combination of visual and speech characteristics of

By Elitsa Petrova
May 6th, 2024
3min Read
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On being 20

by Egemen Aray When I was blowing the candles of my 20th birthday cake, I knew things would be different. The feeling of turning a new page in life felt more serious this time – even when I compare it to the day I turned 18. 18 gave me the right to vote and the

By Egemen Aray
May 2nd, 2024
4min Read
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ODE TO ALMODOVAR

I was just 13 when I fell in love with Almodovar after watching “Talk to her”. As long as I can remember, cinema was one of the most important aspects of my life, never merely a pastime. Since then, few directors have resonated with me as deeply as Pedro Almodovar. I hope to pay at

By Rusa Malaguradze
April 25th, 2024
4min Read
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WHEN I KNOW YOUR SOUL, I WILL PAINT YOUR EYES

How often do you pay attention to people’s eyes? Apart from cryptic rhetoric quotes, and fabled, belittling narratives: how much interest do you truly reserve to stares, quick glances and unspoken vocabulary? Paris, 1906.  A 22 years old Amedeo Modigliani lands in the French capital, eager to prove himself to established revolutionaries and conquer fame

By Anna Dalaidi
April 11th, 2024
5min Read
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The rise and fall of reading culture

For a lot of us, books were an integral part of our childhood. Reading for pleasure was so ingrained in our day to day life that we’d fight to spend our lunch breaks devouring the last 30 pages of some sappy romance novel with a gut-wrenching, terminal illness related ending. I still remember being scolded

By Rithika Abraham
March 30th, 2024
5min Read
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Cait Corrain, racism and reviews: a look into the scandal

Last year, debut author Cait Corrain secured a two-book deal with the publishing house Del Rey Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The deal included film rights, and later, the writer obtained a partnership with the subscription box service Illumicrate for her novel A Crown of Starlight. This sci-fi/fantasy (SFF) novel is “a queer

By Maria Francesca Ficarra
March 28th, 2024
9min Read