Rookie of the Year Atomic City: U2 Go Nuclear at the Sphere By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2024 If I lived in Las Vegas, I wouldn’t be writing this column at all, because I’d be at the show. Again. (And then again.)
Interlinked Making Leaps By Phoenix Simms • March 6th, 2024 Sometimes a certain long-running series will grow alongside you, its relationship with you and your associated subtexts with it morphing over time.
Here Be Monsters In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024 Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.
Mind Palaces And the Crowd Goes Wild By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2024 It’s never quite established what Rollerdrome’s sport is reflecting in the society that watches it.
Past Presence What Time Loops Mean to Me By Dr. Emily Price • February 29th, 2024 Time loop games give us the opportunity to grow alongside the main character.
Run It Back 1995 By Oluwatayo Adewole • February 28th, 2024 In both Fallen Angels and The Doom Generation we follow dreamers.
Noise Complaint Militarie Gun Rings the Bell By Ben Sailer • February 27th, 2024 A punk song appearing in a Taco Bell commercial forces Ben to hit the drive-thru while reconsidering the gatekeeping attitude of his youth.
Funeral Rites Embarking on a DuckQuest By Alyssa Wejebe • February 26th, 2024 “What if ducks weren’t the comical sidekick? What if ducks were the heroes of the adventure?”
Feature Excerpt Made With Love: Anime Mashups and Their Creators By Justin Kim • February 23rd, 2024 They’re not just shitposts!
Feature Excerpt Fortnite, Eminem and Kidproofing Media in the Age of Content By Holly Boson • February 22nd, 2024 Eminem’s presence in The Big Bang can be interpreted as an apology to the players following their disastrous attempts at childproofing.