Has it been a month already? I moved the first of last month. Cardboard boxes, metal rods from bed frames that rest in purgatory, and a healthy scattering of reusable bags still obstruct my path most of the time. The living room, the bedroom, the bathroom, they are getting there, as they say. But, to compensate…

The late 90s and early 2000s — a time symbolized by pink blow up furniture, Motorola flip phones, and low-rise jeans. We are talking about an era spearheaded by the likes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes and a whole slew of Disney Channel children stars (Vanessa Hudgens, Raven-Symoné…

On Friday, February 18, New York Democratic Senator Andrew Gounadres and assembly member Harry Bronson introduced the bill, S8369, dubbed the Freelance Isn’t Free Act, at a state level. Like with most things in life, the state of New York is playing catch up (building upon the work of) our…

On older men, innocent beginnings, and inevitable heartbreak. Taylor Swift. Let’s talk about her new album, Red (Taylor’s Version), which features her self-directed short film and debut song, All Too Well. I used to listen to Swift back in her Tear Drops on my Guitar era, circa 2011, which grew…

Post pandemic real estate is a gold mine — prices are flying high with inflation. Everyone from Albany to the Catskills wants to sell their home to a wealthy New Yorker looking for an oasis. As a seasoned veteran of the city of Albany, the capital of New York state…

When Donald Glover said it in his song, he was alluding to the omnipresent segregation which has lingered over the U.S. ever since the country’s inception. In the medical field, a similar type of bias can be seen dividing men from women, and even more drastically when viewed from the…

Suzy Lake highlighted the pressure women feel when trying to fit the media’s version of an ideal body, gender, and identity long before we could blame Instagram for providing us a place to scroll hopelessly into a void of despair. Since the late 1960s, Lake has been exploring social and…

Art critic, poet, and author of over fifty published books, John Yau came to Ualbany Thursday night to give a lecture titled Abstraction, Another Look. Yau stood in front of a modest audience in the State Universities Fine Arts museum, grappled with the microphone, which would only be the start…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned during these months of isolation, of being stuck in this pandemic limbo, is that now is the perfect time to do everything you’ve always wanted to do. Well, at least in the confides of your own home. …