On a Tuesday morning in March, comedian Sarah Suzuki Harvard was taking an evening walk home down Delancey Street in lower Manhattan. Without warning, someone punched Harvard in the back of the head. When Havard turned to confront her attacker, the man was running away. Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated attack. It’s been happening to women all over New York City. In New York City, Women Are Experiencing “Punches to the Face” Source: Jill Burke/TikTok Women are taking to TikTok to urge women to stay aware of their surroundings after several people reported similar stories of an unidentified man punching…
Author: Alyssa Miller
Alyssa Miller
Alyssa Miller is a writer, editor, and educator with a passion for entertainment and pop culture. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Communications. Before graduating, Alyssa worked as a freelance entertainment and film education writer, contributing to a variety of publications, including Britain’s First Frame Magazine. She also continued to write short stories and screenplays in her free time.
What would you do if you discovered you had 37 children? That is what happened to Peter Ellenstein, a California man who learned about his children after one reached out to him through text in 2017. How did Ellenstein have 37 children he knew nothing about? And how did he discover them years later? Let’s get into it! Ellenstein Discovers His First Child Source: Peter Ellenstein/Facebook Ellenstein explains in The Telegraph that he was sitting in a café in San Francisco when he received a Facebook message on his phone. The message was from a young woman named Rachel. Rachel…
Seventy-one years ago, director John Ford made cinema history at the Academy Awards. Since 1929, the Academy Awards has been recognizing great filmmakers and actors with Oscars, which have become the measurement of success in Hollywood for nearly a century. As everyone in the entertainment industry prepares for the 96th Academy Awards season and the announcement of the 2024 Oscar nominees, let’s look at one of the most influential and groundbreaking directors who set the standard for all Hollywood directors. Ford began directing in the 1910s during the silent era and successfully transitioned to talkies, making some of the most…
A woman who posts TikTok videos about her tradwife lifestyle has found herself in the middle of an online debate about gender roles, feminism, and equality in the home. TikToker Estee Williams became a tradwife influencer after posting videos to her account in March 2022 and has gained 170,000 followers and millions of views. However, not everyone agrees with her lifestyle. What Is a Tradwife? Source: NARA/Flickr A “tradwife,” or a traditional wife, is a woman who adheres to “traditional” gender roles such as being a stay-at-home wife who looks after the children, their husband, and the home. They often…
Have you ever wanted to live close to a Disney theme park? While California might not be the place for you, the entertainment company is building affordable housing near its Florida theme park, Disneyland. However, residents in the area are pushing back against the plans to build so many houses on a small amount of land. Disney’s Affordable Housing Plan Source: Disney World Affordable Housing Plans Announced in 2022, Walt Disney World confirmed that they will be building 1,410 affordable apartments in the Orlando area close to the parks. The site is located near a shopping center west of the…
Historical wars have inspired an innumerable amount of movies over the past century, and no topic has been used as frequently as World War 2. From “Saving Private Ryan” to “Dunkirk” and “Fury,” war movies hold a special place in the hearts of film fans around the world. However, several historical inaccuracies were apparent in the latter’s case, denting the film’s credibility. Fury (2014) Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube The movie “Fury” arrived on movie screens in 2014 under the guidance of revered director David Ayer, who also wrote the film. It boasted a cast of respected actors, including Brad Pitt,…
A year after 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron live streamed his mass shooting that ended the lives of 10 black people at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, 20 survivors are trying to stop the algorithms that allegedly led to the tragic event. Filed in 2023, the lawsuit claims that the algorithms on YouTube and Reddit radicalized Gendron, and prepared him for the attack. The Survivors File a Lawsuit Source: Towfiqu barbhuiya/Pexels The 25 survivors of the shooting in Buffalo allege that the sites’ algorithm helped radicalize Gendron by showing inflammatory and conspiratorial content. Gendron then used the sites…
Gamers are focusing on Sweet Baby Inc.’s involvement with various projects across Steam, an online gaming platform, and blames Sweet Baby Inc. for adding wokeness to their games. For a growing number of players, political ideologies or other topics that include diversity, sexual orientation, or cultural identities have no place in games. Sweet Baby Inc., credited as a writer on many games, appears to be the main reason why wokeness is present in the games. What Is Sweet Baby Inc.? Source: Sweet Baby Inc. Sweet Baby Inc. crafts video game narratives promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, aiding or supplementing the…
The Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) in Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania, faces a lawsuit after denying entry to Jason Lau at the Ladies Lounge art installation. In April 2023, Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner denied Lau entry, prompting him to file a complaint alleging discrimination based on his gender. What Is the Ladies Lounge? Source: MONA/Facebook American artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele created The Ladies Lounge, which opened in December 2020. According to the MONA website, the exhibition is accessible to “any and all ladies.” This meant that men, except for the butlers who cater…
Jeremy Workman’s “Secret Mall Apartment” documentary premiered last week at SXSW, bringing to light all eight people involved in the secret apartment at the Providence Place Mall in the early 2000s. The four-year-long stunt done by these eight artists, who revealed their identities for the first time at the film’s premiere, explained why they did it. Who Created the Secret Mall Apartment? Source: JJBers/Flickr Rhode Island leaders struggling to keep the capital city financially alive quickly embraced the construction of the Providence Place Mall in the late 1990s as a sign of urban renewal. However, eight artists–Michael Townsend, Adriana Valdez…