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YANG | The Indie Bookstore Dilemma
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The war between indie booksellers and Amazon have escalated to something akin to David and Goliath, and perhaps rightfully so.
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YANG | Taylor Swift and the Art of Changing the Narrative
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After years of suffering from the toll public scrutiny takes on her personal life, Swift made a genius power move of using what the media so loves doing against them and for her own benefit.
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YANG | In Defense of Kim Kardashian West
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So let’s take away her name and her fame for a second, and look at this for what it really is: A woman stumbled upon someone she wanted to help, went all out to make a difference and by doing so saw a new opportunity for her own life.
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YANG | What the Disney-Fox Merger Means for Hollywood
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Disney is essentially affirming and perhaps furthering the divide between blockbusters and small indie productions.
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YANG | Remaking Nostalgia
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I’ve gotten to an age where I will start seeing things I loved being remade.
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YANG | The Real Plight of Bookstores
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If we continue to allow the commercialization of every possible aspect in our lives, tangible or intangible, in the end, what will we have left?
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YANG | In Defense of Filmed Theatre
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I anxiously await the day productions welcome everyone into the amazing world of theatre without burdening them with the price tag.
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YANG | An Ode to the Dream Makers
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My mom told me that when she was sixteen she would work so hard on preparing for the college entrance exams during the day just so she could hide under the blankets and read Jin Yong’s novels before she went to sleep.
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YANG | The High and the Popular
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Andrea Yang ’20 writes about her journey to reconciling meaningful art and popular art.
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YANG | The Apolitical Artist
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Two weeks ago, during an appearance as musical guest on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Kanye West delivered an unplanned pro-Trump speech to the audience as the credits rolled. Now you’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking I’m either going to defend or bash Kanye on his speech and his twitter rants about the 13th Amendment. Well, I’m not going to do either of those things. There’s something else entirely that concerns me. This past Saturday, SNL cast member Pete Davidson discussed the incident during “Weekend Update.” Davidson urged Kanye to take his meds and said that while Kanye is a musical genius like “Joey Chestnut is a hot dog-eating genius,” he doesn’t want to “hear Joey Chestnut’s opinions about things that aren’t hot dog-related.”
Incidentally, the day before Davidson’s SNL appearance, Lady Gaga went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and gave a defense of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford with regards to memory mechanisms and trauma, and her speech soon went viral on Twitter.