This week, Emerald City attempted to make up for lost time. Although “The Villain That’s Become” failed to pick up speed for the series itself, this episode did give us something that many previous episodes have lacked; curiosity about what…
TV Review: The Vampire Diaries 8×14 “It’s Been a Hell of a Ride”
Well, The Vampire Diaries, it’s been a hell of a ride. Literally and figuratively as the gang hold their final stand-off against the least impressive villain in Diaries history— Cade the devil incarnate. But that’s not the biggest twist of the…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×11, “Hostiles And Calamities”
There’s a bit of an ease back on the gas pedal for this week’s The Walking Dead, as “Hostiles and Calamities” is all about showing us a different perspective surrounding Negan and the Sanctuary. Those enjoying the move forward with…
Music Interview: Little Monarch
Need a mood booster for your day? Check out the upcoming band Little Monarch who you may have noticed fluttering around the Spotify world here and there. I know I certainly have heard them once or twice. This Los Angeles…
Melody on Music: AltRootsCountryRock
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
Movie Review: Train Driver’s Diary
If you’ve lived in New York City for any extended period of time, you eventually become familiar with all the warning signs on the subway advising passengers to stand behind the yellow line at the station platforms. But within the…
Video Game Review: Night In The Woods
At the end of everything… “You are always welcome here,” my mother reminds me as I haul in boxes of my possessions. I know that she’s telling the truth, but I also know that she doesn’t really have the room…