Gabrielle Bondi

Co-Founder

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Gabrielle founded The Young Folks in 2010 with Luciana Villalba. Since then, she has served as editor-in-chief and oversees the staff and editorial content on The Young Folks. She recently graduated from Northwestern University and is now working on her master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism.

TV Show Review: True Blood Season 4 Premiere

HBO held a special advanced screening of the first two episodes of True Blood last night in Chicago. Luckily, I was invited and able to watch one of my favorite TV shows on the big screen. The following review is…

Listen to Episode 9 of our TYF Podcast!

Hey young folks! We’re back this weekend with a new episode! Check it out below!   You can download the episode here or subscribe on iTunes below!   This week we discuss Hunger Games, new movie release dates, James McAvoy…

Film Review: ‘Bad Teacher’ starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake & Jason Segel

Gaby’s thoughts: When I first saw the trailer for Bad Teacher, I was just like “Seriously? What is this?” It immediately looked like something that wasn’t worth my time. But after a while, it started to grow on me. While…

Book Review: Sarah Dessen’s latest book ‘What Happened to Goodbye’

Sarah Dessen has been a main staple in young adult literature for more than ten years. Before the supernatural, fantasy, and dystopian books all came into play, most teenage girls had their hands on a Sarah Dessen novel. Throughout all…

Book Review: ‘Wither’ by Lauren DeStefano

Dystopian stories are really the new thing. This time I stumbled upon Wither, the first in The Chemical Garden Trilogy. Wither is set in a world where the life span of humans has been greatly shortened. When they thought they…

Film Review: ‘Green Lantern’ is the lackluster blockbuster of Summer 2011

I’ve been seriously procrastinating with writing this review. I just didn’t want to write it; it’s hard to come up with something to say about Green Lantern. I bet you’re all thinking “Wow. Was it THAT bad?!” No, it was…

TV Show Review: ‘The Nine Lives of Chloe King’ Series Premiere

ABC Family has been releasing a plethora of new TV shows. Sometimes it’s hard for me to keep track of all of them. Here’s another to add to the batch: The Nine Lives of Chloe King. I first heard about…