Church, specifically the Catholic Church, has never been more interesting than it is in “The Young Pope.” Created by Paolo Sorrentino (“This Must Be The Place,” “Youth,” “The Great Beauty”), the new HBO show follows Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) who is anointed Pope Pius XIII at the age of 46.
When 29-year-old pop singer Jesse McCartney caught his first wave of stardom circa 2004, fangirls followed his every move both in magazines and real life. His bright, green eyes, casually disarrayed bowl cut and sweet love song formula put him solidly in the same generation of teen idols as Aaron Carter and Hilary Duff.
Never before in the history of music has the word “butterscotch” been used so many times in a single half-hour (seven by my count). Three years after the revolutionary album Neon Icon, Riff Raff is still somehow making outlandish, cringe-worthy, yet extremely entertaining music.
As I wiggled a pair of stiff jeans over my hips in the packed State Street Urban Outfitters dressing room on Sunday, a fellow dressing room patron ran into their friend. “You going to D.R.A.M. tonight?” said friend one. “Of course!” friend two responded.
If there are two things I love, it’s murder mysteries and cliché high school dramas. So naturally, “Riverdale” appealed to me immediately. The pilot managed to do a perfect job of taking those two things and smashing them together to form one big, dark teen drama conglomerate.
At a 2015 concert in the Milwaukee Rave, the duo from Twenty One Pilots gave each other fresh tattoos on the stage.
Maybe I’m just a sucker for a quiet banjo and a British accent, but up on the balcony section of High Noon Saloon, above a canopy of stringed lights on a Thursday night, London-based folk band Bear’s Den reminded me just how possible it is to smile and shed a tear at the same time.
The pull of Netflix star Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington in the hit show “Stranger Things,” led many curious students to Memorial Union’s Der Rathskeller to see Keery’s band, Post Animal, perform Saturday night. The Chicago-based band is a six-piece unit of talented musicians, but typically the band’s media coverage, and even audience turnout, are almost comically focused on Keery’s involvement with “Stranger Things.” Despite this attention, not all six boys were present Saturday—take a guess which one was missing.
Migos break the system and give us CULTURE with no apology. In a record-label dictated industry and a politically shattering country, Migos’ trio of Quavo, Offset and Takeoff are just warming up.
Following the events of “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,” “Episode VIII” will hit theaters Dec. 15 of this year, but has remained nameless—until Monday morning.
Multi-disciplinary, Milwaukee-based visual artist Jason S. Yi addressed his work and community artistic engagement yesterday afternoon as part of the UW Art Department’s weekly Visiting Artist Colloquium series at the Elvehjem.
#OscarsSoWhite dominated last year’s Academy Awards, pointing out what anyone paying attention already knew: movies have a lot of white people, and the Oscars rewards those white people. The uproar sparked a genuine conversation about representation on screen, and in June, the Academy sent out 683 new member invitations, 46 percent of which were given to females and 41 percent of which to people of color.
2017 marks the beginning of a new period filled with uncertainty and anxiety for countless Americans across the country. The past year and a half showcased the rise of a prolific businessman and reality television star to the most powerful position in the world. Not only has Donald Trump been the most controversial presidential candidate ever, but at a more basic level, it seems that he values his personal goals over those of the country he now leads.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle an aspiring rapper must overcome on their climb to the throne is finding a unique voice and identity that lets them stand out from the dense crowds of would-be stars. Isaiah Rashad is one of the rappers who’s found his own sound. On Saturday, Rashad swung by The Sett for the fifth stop of his Lil Sunny Tour.
With the Academy Awards nominations announcement coming out on Tuesday, Jan. 24, the entertainment community is gearing up with their final Oscar predictions. In honor of the Super Bowl of film culture, I compiled a list of my own predictions for these prestigious awards.
The temperature is struggling to climb above freezing. The people of Madison slowly submerge their skin beneath a shell of thermal layering. This sounds like the perfect time of the year to postpone those New Year’s resolutions and exercise your thumbs by flipping through TV channels. With the new year, the major television players are putting out new content and targeting large audiences too slow from the holiday feasts to change the channel. Here’s what is coming to a living room near you in 2017.
For the second consecutive year, the Majestic Theatre hosted the Wisconsin Hip-Hop Fest, with clear satisfaction from the artists, organizers and fans. The concert featured a strong lineup of performers from both the Madison and Milwaukee area, including the headlining set from popular artist WebsterX. Each artist infused a full-house Majestic Theatre with growing excitement as stragglers continued to file in well into the show. Every beat, bar, chant and stomp kept the show riveting to say the least, with ample moments worthy of highlighting.
Last year was a gargantuan one for hip-hop, with top artists pulling the genre in competing directions. From Kendrick Lamar to Lil Yachty, the genre veered from lyrical masterworks to political anthems to brash bangers, and it has rarely felt more eclectic. On Saturday at the High Noon Saloon, Chicago native Noname put on an energetic show that ushered in the new year with a blend of rap’s many different identities.
The xx, a band with roots in London, became pioneers in indie pop music with the release of their 2009 album xx and its follow up Coexist.
2016 was another great year at the movies for blockbusters and indie flicks alike. 2017 will, as every year now does, bring plenty more sequels, reboots and characters we already know. Some of these will be great and some will flop, but you’ll also likely have already heard about most of them. Instead of focusing on the big-budget and big-name films, here are 10 movies to keep on your radar in 2017, none of which are sequels or reboots.
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