From the Kapoor dynasty to the Khan-dan (pedigree), nepotism has permeated Hindi cinema since its conception. In its 93-year history, Bollywood has developed a tried-and-tested formula for launching nepo...
As college students, we often find our stomachs craving more flavor amid tedious days of dining hall hot dogs. If you’ve been admiring the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurants around the Georgetown...
By Brad Derfner, Guide Columnist
• September 24, 2025
To many, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which just wrapped up Sept. 14, acts as a symbolic “starting gun” for the coming year’s awards season. This year, as usual, the conversation...
There’s a common misconception in the cultural zeitgeist that South Asia does not have a punk-rock culture. With convergent portrayals of oriental spirituality and normative collectivism, South Asian...
By Nick Williams, Hoya Staff Writer
• April 23, 2025
“This summer is the apocalypse,” wrote Taylor Swift in August 2016. Kim Kardashian had recently released an edited video of a phone call between Swift and Kanye West, Kardashian’s then-husband, regarding...
By Nick Williams, Hoya Staff Writer
• March 26, 2025
On Nov. 11, 2019, Lady Gaga tweeted, “i don’t remember ARTPOP,” and it felt as if a mother had publicly disowned her child. Lady Gaga’s relationship with her third studio album, “Artpop,” continues...
I must let go of this endless summer afternoon.
This declaration usually comes into my life like clockwork at the tail end of July’s wet and sticky tongue — and all for different reasons. Once,...
By Amber Cherry, Senior Guide Editor
• September 4, 2024
Sure, “Love is Blind: UK” has its fair share of drama, but ultimately it is nowhere near its American counterpart. All I could think as I watched the Brits come to their own conclusions about the blindness...
During the weeklong Election Day, The New York Times electoral map was permanently open as a tab on my computer. I stared and refreshed.
Eventually, the white-outlined states turned to gray as...
2020’s “Hades” is a game about choice in a world without it.
I mean that quite literally; developer Supergiant’s newest title sees the game’s protagonist, the Greek god Zagreus, attempting...
Picture this: it’s a balmy Friday evening in summer 2008. You’ve had a busy day alternating between Club Penguin and Webkinz accounts on the clunky desktop in your family’s designated computer room....
The apocalypse of 2017’s “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” is quiet and beautiful.
Destroyed by the forces of evil 100 years before the game, the world of Hyrule is vast and still,...
