While some of us may dismiss the Superbowl as being little but an opportunity to celebrate by drinking since noon (responsibly of course) and bellying up to wings, potato skins and artichoke dip, it would behoove us to not mention…
Melody on Music: Downloadin’ Makes Me Feel Good
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: The Space Between Us
It’s amazing The Space Between Us is not based on a young adult novel. The new sci-fi drama checks all the boxes for one, but it also ignores the core of what makes young adult stories so great — sometimes,…
From the Record Crate: MIKA – “Life in Cartoon Motion” (2007)
Singer-songwriter Mika released his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion on February 5, 2007. The album debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and sold over 7.8 million copies since it’s release. It’s downright amazing and a wonderful example…
TV Review: Emerald City 1×06 “Beautiful Wickedness”
“Dorothy, you’ve come home!” – the Wizard Last week on Emerald City, we were left with a major bombshell; Dorothy has been to Oz before, and the Wizard seems to know Dorothy better than she knows herself. This week’s episode…
TV Review: Sleepy Hollow 4×05 “Blood from a Stone”
This week’s Sleepy Hollow “Blood From a Stone” finally gives us the answers we’ve been waiting for about our mysterious villain Dreyfuss, the pieces of the stone artifact he’s been collecting and his dark past. So what do the pieces…
Movie Review: Gold
I have this recurring dream of winning some enormous jackpot in a casino. Taking it as a sign, I have gone to the casino a couple of times and lost much more money than I have made. There was no…