Warning: this review will contain partial spoilers of all three Knives Out films. Stay warned. Once again, Daniel Craig has starred in a blockbuster film in the Knives Out universe. Once...

At 6:30 p.m. on a rainy Christmas Day, I hopped out of my mother’s car, raced up the long outdoor staircase at the Burbank AMC 16, and eagerly met a friend to see Timothée Chalamet’s most anticipated...

Bright colored and boldly patterned 80s shirts. Binders scribbled with notes and drawings. Dim lights exuding mystery. Five kids, no longer kids, huddled around a table. Dice and figurines of soldiers,...

An eclectic rush of people, heavenly scents from each storefront, and snippets of conversations between strangers. Here we were in Little Tokyo, sitting on a bench, petting Benjamin Franklin. The dog....

As I stepped out of the yellow school bus in mid-October of seventh grade—my first year at Westridge—I noticed a herd of Lower Schoolers swarming a white folding table. Two high schoolers stood behind...

I was trudging through the Friday Disneyland crowd on June 6th, 2025, when I noticed my mom hunched over her phone with my aunt, gasping at whatever was on the screen. I ran over, thinking something...

“I only got four hours of sleep last night,” says one caffeine-indulgent student. “Really? I only got three,” replies another, somehow more caffeine-indulgent student.  Any time I walk through...

I can still remember the first time I ever stepped foot into the Vidiots video store. I was fourteen, and I wore faded black oversized jeans and a tan vest. My braids were pulled up into a high ponytail,...

As a senior, it feels like all anyone ever talks about is college. Sharing which colleges you’re interested in can feel overly personal or inevitably invite a sense of comparison among classmates, so...

It was October 3—the day I had been waiting for for months. I hopped onto my bed, but instead of closing my eyes, I opened Apple Music (don’t judge me, Spotify supremacists). I quickly found the much-anticipated...

Last winter, while my harabeoji, my grandfather, was still battling stage four cancer, I tried to imagine how I would react if he died. I thought I might burst into tears or scream out in pain like...