It’s Time To Break Up With Celeb Breakups
The planet is dying, the COVID–19 pandemic is raging on, and we’re still knee–deep in political turmoil. Celebrity breakups still manage to make headlines regardless.
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The planet is dying, the COVID–19 pandemic is raging on, and we’re still knee–deep in political turmoil. Celebrity breakups still manage to make headlines regardless.
While vaccines against COVID–19 represent one of the peaks of human ingenuity and achievement, they also present an issue of vaccination etiquette: How are we supposed to act in the global scramble for a shot?
In 1997, before Fishtown was full of the hustle and bustle that we know it to be and Old City was Center City’s furthest frontier, Ellen Yin (W '87) opened Fork at 306 Market St., one of the only restaurants that stood facing the waterfront at the time. Her goal was to keep the business afloat, but over 20 years later, Fork is not only still standing, but also critically acclaimed.
It has been over 20 years since Sex and the City first graced our television screens. In many ways, the show was groundbreaking. It was funny, smart, and to many, a true–to–life depiction of female friendship, sex, and singlehood. But as times have changed, it’s no longer the relatable, easy watching that it once was. Especially with an HBO Max reboot recently announced, it’s important to look at this iconic series through a more modern lens.
The pearl necklace has always been a timeless piece of jewelry. Pearls often evoke super–polished and glammed up images of Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly, but the modern interpretation of the pearl necklace isn’t so prim and proper. From TikTokers like Ellie Zeiler and Vinnie Hacker to full–fledged supermodels like Bella Hadid, to seemingly every single girl on Instagram, everyone is wearing the Vivienne Westwood Mini Bas Relief Choker. With its delicate string of faux pearls and an orb charm, the choker has become a must–have in any self–professed fashion fanatic’s jewelry collection.
Before Kim Kardashian broke the internet, before Kendall Jenner became the highest–paid model in the world, and well before the world was obsessed with Kylie Jenner’s lips, the Kardashian–Jenner clan were just a wealthy family living in Calabasas, Calif.
Did you know that around a third of all relationships that started between 2015 and 2019 began online? Historically, your dating network would be limited to whoever you, your friends, and family know. Perhaps you could have met the love of life in class or at a party. But today, the most viable way to meet people is through the internet.
'Influencer' has become one of those terms that through overuse has now become meaningless. It manages to simultaneously be an aspiration and an insult, the future of marketing and the bane of many small business owners' existences. Influencer is the term we use to describe TikTokers with a decent social media following as well as mega–celebrities and well–dressed pets. It’s even how the Pope describes the Virgin Mary.
Vaccines have been described as some of the greatest inventions of the 20th century by so many—they have saved countless lives, eradicated diseases such as smallpox, and all but eliminated diseases such as polio. Yet opposition to vaccination has existed as long as vaccination itself has existed. The origins of the anti–vaxxer can be traced back to the 1800s, when the smallpox vaccine became widespread and, with it, fear and protest. People questioned the vaccine's efficacy, the ages at which children should receive the vaccine, the risk of the vaccine in comparison to the disease, and whether or not local authorities should enforce compulsory vaccination in the case of an outbreak.
Everyone everywhere seems to be talking about Bridgerton. From countless texts that read “Have you watched Bridgerton yet?” to endless memes about the show (with many featuring the infamous spoon–licking clip), it seems like Bridgerton has us all obsessed for good reason. The world of Bridgerton is alluring in so many ways—extravagant balls every night, promenades in beautiful gardens accompanied by stolen glances—and is a far cry from reality for most of us who are more or less stuck inside and glued to our screens.
If you tallied every post on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn that you would call “show–offy,” the result would be astronomical. Flexing—or showing off—seems to be a staple on social media these days. But is flexing simply a celebration of how good your life is, or is it deeper than that?
One of my favorite movies growing up was the 1990 adaptation of The Witches, based on the book by Roald Dahl. Seriously, I think I must have watched that movie about twenty times. So, when a remake of this 1990 classic was announced, I was super excited to watch it and reminisce over a childhood classic. Whilst the 2020 adaptation switched the setting of the film from England in the 1980s to Alabama in the 1960s, the plot of both movies is the same—a young orphan named Charlie, played by Jahzir Bruno and his grandmother Agatha, played by Octavia Spencer, try to stop a group of evil witches from cursing children and transforming them into mice.
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Imagine: Your morning routine consists of your phone alarm going off at some ridiculously early time followed by scrolling through some news apps, Twitter, and Instagram. It’s bad news after more bad news. The rate of COVID–19 keeps rising, and so do deaths. Campus is still closed. Your favourite stores and restaurants have shut down, and people have lost their jobs. But perhaps one of the most anxiety–inducing topics has to be the presidential election.
The outrage over Cuties, the debut film by Maïmouna Doucouré, speaks volumes of the sheer lack of conversation about young women’s sexuality. The film, originally called Mignonnnes, is meant to be an empowering film that indicts both the entertainment and social media of the sexualization of young girls. Instead, the film has become a perpetrator of the crime it sought it diminish. It has become a target for social conservatives fueled by conspiracies of child sex trafficking.
For those of us completing this semester remotely, it’s proving to be a mixed bag. From learning how to work from home to navigating an almost all online social life, to say this semester is not what any of us expected would be an understatement. Even with all of these adjustments, there’s the looming pressure to use this time to “glow–up.”
In early May, Nicki Minaj's remix of Doja Cat's "Say So" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart—the first song by two female rappers ever to do so. This triumph was made even sweeter by the fact that Beyonce's remix of Megan Thee Stallion's Savage had secured the number two spot. Four Black women had outsold every other artist in the country that week. There is no more significant proof that we are currently watching some sort of hip–hop renaissance unfold.
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