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Lady Gaga's Chromatica Ball celebrates the battle

“Have you ever had to battle for your life?” Chicago’s Wrigley Field, completely sold out and packed with 45,000 concert goers, erupted in passionate cries at Lady Gaga’s posed question. After fighting through the past few grueling years, the pop-star's highly anticipated Chromatica Ball was nothing short of a smashing celebration of life’s triumphs and its tribulations. Originally released in May of 2020, Gaga’s album “Chromatica”has waited two years to be performed live around the world. The tour had been previously postponed twice due to the worldwide pandemic, but was finally given the green light earlier this year, and it was well worth the wait. 

Lizzo's new album 'Special': All about love

When Lizzo’s album came out, I had to take a moment of silence because I knew the moment I listened to the album everything would change — and it did. “Special,” the new album by Lizzo is about loving yourself unequivocally and allowing others to love you as well. The 12 songs in the album are a gorgeous mix of pop, R&B and hip hop and invite the listeners on a journey of discovering yourself, and loving that self. With such a massive debut of “Truth Hurts,” Lizzo had a high bar to live up to and she did just that. 

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: Love vs. void

Hear me out: I’m late to the party. I know this.

‘The Sandman’: Dreams never really die

The first reviews I saw of Netflix’s “The Sandman”were vitriolic complaints that the series had “too many gay people.” Naturally, that made me want to watch it even more.

The chiaroscuro of ‘Elvis’

The fall of Saul: A Jimmy McGill character study

‘Hellfire’: Black Midi’s descent into madness

Netflix’s ‘Persuasion’: You cannot persuade me to like this

Holy Cross(Word): Test your knowledge of the tri-campus community

Commencement 2022: Four years in a review

Garth Brooks: One sweet cat

22 songs about being 22

‘The Northman’ is the best revenge film in years

Scene Selections: Summer reading

The masters (of fine arts): Graduate thesis exhibit reviewed 

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ should have stayed secret from the public

‘Metal Lords’: How not to make a film about metal music

’Serpentina’: An exploration of the world of Banks

Death Grips’ ‘The Money Store’ turns 10: A look back at one of the most influential albums of the 2010’s

Finding a muse in Fivio Foreign’s ‘B.I.B.L.E.’