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.

Book Review: ‘Shadow of Night,’ Book 2 in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Note: Seeing as the book doesn’t release for another few months, I decided to make this a NON-SPOILER review! So all ADOW fans can enjoy! :) As a book lover, of course I love receiving books. But there are always…

Film News: Jennifer Lawrence In Talks for ‘The Glass Castle’

After an Oscar nomination and the major success of The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence has been booking projects left and right. Deadline reports that Lawrence is in talks to star in Lionsgate’s The Glass Castle, based on the memoir of gossip columnist Jeanette…

C2E2: Comics, Costumes, Celebs & Lots of Entertaining Fun!

This was my first year at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had gone to San Diego Comic Con last year, so I couldn’t predict how C2E2 would measure to it.…

Music News: Paul McCartney Debuts ‘My Valentine’ Music Videos with Johnny Depp & Natalie Portman

Over the weekend, Beatles legend Paul McCartney unveiled two music videos for his latest song “My Valentine” at a party for his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney. The two videos feature actors Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp signing to the…

Film News: Lionsgate Eyeing Cuarón, Cronenberg & Iñárritu To Direct ‘Catching Fire’

The LA Times is reporting that Lionsgate has come up with a list of eight directors that they will like to helm the second installment to the highly successful The Hunger Games. A source close to the LA Times reports…

Film Review: ‘The Lucky One,’ starring Zac Efron & Taylor Schilling

Another year, another Nicholas Sparks film! Now, I will admit that while I tend to give Sparks a lot of flak, mostly because of this, I do give his movies a fair shot. Sometimes the combination of melodrama, cliché and…

Book Review: ‘Sisterhood Everlasting’ (#5 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) by Ann Brashares

I loved The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books. Because I loved the books, I had a genuine affection for the films. (Although, if I had to compare the two, the books would always win.) What I had thought to…