Category: Media, Sports, Entertainment, and Food

      It was freshman orientation day at the University of Michigan when Benj Pasek and Justin Paul met each other for the first time. The two ambitious high school graduates were going to be studying in the musical theater program together as actors, singers, and dancers. Nevertheless, they had no idea that they…

    At the 2018 US Open trophy ceremony, Japanese-Haitian tennis player Naomi Osaka apologized for her victory. “I’m sorry. I know that everyone was cheering for [Williams], and I’m sorry that it had to end like this,” the newly-crowned champion choked.   Her opponent, Serena Williams, lost after multiple code violations and heated dialogue…

    The vast majority of athletes play their respective games for the same purposes: feeding their desire to win and fulfilling their honor. But one particular athlete was also spurred on by the motivation of fear, as the 2018 Asian Games represented his final chance of avoiding mandatory military service and saving his career…

  September has begun and many have already gone on summer vacation. To many people, the idea of travel and vacation is equivalent to relaxation and entertainment. However, to others, the act of preserving the sights that they had seen and the foods that they have eaten into pictures are just as important. Travel pictures…

  The Los Angeles Dodgers last won a championship in 1988 in one of the biggest World Series upsets of all time. The 94-67 Dodgers were heavy underdogs in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics that had won 104 games. Thanks to ace starter Orel Hershiser, who won the 1988 Cy Young Award,…

      A movie that features a completely Asian cast. As the leading roles. Being showcased in major theaters, rather than in exclusive film festivals or others of the sort, all throughout the nation. This is majorly unheard of in the film production industry. Yet the release of Crazy Rich Asians earlier this month…

    Asians have been underrepresented in American film in the past decade, as the last movie featuring an all Asian cast has been The Joy Luck Club in 1993. It has been known that Hollywood mainly casts Caucasians in most of their films, and many minority groups, especially Asians, have been reduced to small…

        For many MLB fans, it’s become a familiar pattern – a baseball player, typically in his mid-twenties, has his old, offensive tweets unearthed, and becomes just one of many prominent athletes who have been “exposed” for being racist and homophobic.   Sean Newcomb, starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, is one…

    Have you ever fallen in love with the cute characters from Korean messaging apps? These character-based stickers online are very trendy among teens and even adults! Thanks to their popularity, we can now encounter these adorable mobile characters in reality! LINE Friends Corporation owns thousands of character-based goods, theme parks, animations, and cafes…

        The digital age has presented both convenience and consequence for today’s technological consumer. Many children are prone to having their own personal cell phones and tablets as early as elementary school. While this privilege has inherently become the norm for many families, the normalization of technology in our lives also exposes…