Tyler sticks to the realm of previous albums like “Igor” and Call Me with heavily layered synths, bombastic trumpets, and piano ballads, but brings such enthusiastic variety with each song that it’s hard to not allow earworms to etch into you. Ilustration by Cortlan Souders Riding on the success of his album “Call Me If You Get Lost” from 2021, and running a victory lap after an extended version was released in 2023, Tyler The Creator has yet again dropped a surprise album –

Image from Escapefrom19.com Adapting something like horror into different mediums (media) can be very tricky – especially if the platform is an online collaborative-writing project. The SCP Wiki is a collaborative-writing project focused on writing articles using themes of science fiction and horror. The SCP Wiki is a collection of articles made by a fictional secret organization known as the SCP Foundation, which discovers, contains, and studies anomalous items and beings. T

Part of the cast from “Seedfolks” (Photo by Ken Perez) Last month (Nov. 17-18), the MHCC Theatre Department put on an inspiring production of “Seedfolks,” a one-act play based off the book written by Paul Fleischman. The story follows a diverse group of people working towards a common goal: building a community garden. The choice of the play was inspired on the future of Mt Hood’s own on-campus community garden. And the production was both beautiful and inspiring as it handle

I kind of had high demands for this movie: As a person who has more than five pairs of Jordans in their closet, you can probably call me a fan. So going into a viewing of “Air,” I kind of thought I was going to watch “Good Will Hunting” but with Michael Jordan in it – and I was pleasantly surprised. Not to say ‘Hunting’ isn’t a good movie, because it is. I thought this new movie featuring the same Matt Damon-Ben Affleck pairing did a pretty good job telling the story as truth

In the midst of Nic Cage’s eclectic yet sometimes masterful acting career comes a dramatic, somber movie called “Pig.” Pig is filmed in our beloved Portland, as we follow Cage’s character, Rob, on a journey to find his stolen truffle pig, vital to his business of collecting very valuable truffles. After viewing the trailers to this movie, I went into it thinking this was going to be a comedic twist on John Wick’s vengeful, gory films, but instead I was met with a movie that r

Do you all remember during the pandemic when concerts were strictly online as livestreams? I know you do. It wasn’t that long ago, but it certainly feels like it with everything going on in the world. Well, out of all those bands and artists I’m only talking about one, because they hold a special place in my heart and I know a lot of people feel the same: On May 21, 2021, Twenty One Pilots did their first and only livestream concert, where they pulled off a Las Vegas-worthy s

Hello, MHCC students and staff – this term is coming to an end very soon and yet it feels like it just started. With the looming stress of dances and graduation or transferring and moving onto bigger and brighter things in life, sometimes we all need to just take a night – or even a whole day, if possible – to just lay in bed, stuff our face, and binge on our favorite show or, even get into a new show. Now I know most, if not all of us, have access to the streaming platform N

Closing out the month of May, this a final piece on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, honoring those who paved the way for all of us to have a better life than we would’ve had in our countries of origin. We are no longer Asian Americans; due to our ancestors’ sacrifices over the centuries, we are now known simply as Americans. Aloha means hello, goodbye, and “I love you.” Taste of Aloha is translated into “taste of love” – and today our journey takes us to t

Web Photo. Darcey Bell’s novel, “A Simple Favor,” came to life as a film in 2018. Anna Kendrick plays a widowed single mother, Stephanie Smothers, who works as a vlogger in Connecticut. She has a hard time connecting with other moms until she meets the one and only Emily Nelson, who is played by Blake Lively. Emily seems to have it all: a beautiful house, perfect job, perfect husband, perfect life. One would dream to live like her. The two women embark on a rollercoaster styl

Banner of Gen Sushi’s website. Opening a sushi restaurant in November of 2020 wasn’t what Wen and his wife, Wendy, had planned. The fact of the matter is, they had blueprints ready for Gen Sushi’s Gresham location back in November 2019. But by the time they had all the necessary permits ready, February had rolled around and with it, the most devastating pandemic the world has seen in a century. Finding a contractor to do the work took months and cost far more than was origina

Web Graphic WARNING: This review contains some slight to moderate spoilers. Queen’s pawn to d4: In chess, this opening move (for white) is known as the “Queen’s Gambit.” It is the oldest recorded opening for the game of chess, dating back to the 1490s. It didn’t gain widespread popularity until a chess tournament in Vienna, in 1873. On the other hand, the Netflix original “The Queen’s Gambit,” based upon the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, is a limited series rapidly

Web Photo Not all hauntings are by ghosts. We can be haunted by guilt, debt, our choices, our feelings, or simply by our past. We can also be haunted by the thoughts and feelings invoked in a fantastic bit of media, such as Netflix’s “The Haunting of Bly Manor.” Created by Mike Flanagan, who was also the screenwriter for “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Bly Manor” is set in a sleepy country manor just outside London, England. The story finds inspiration from the works of Victor

Web Graphic. After having released many singles over the past few years, Chicago-based indie group Slow Pulp at last presented their debut album, “Moveys,” earlier this month, a work obviously confident, creative, and quite familiar, all the same. Inhabiting a genre filled with catchy basslines and melodramatic prose (meant in the best way possible, of course), Moveys does not disappoint. If anything, it is a testament to its creators’ ultimate comfort in their performance, e

Web Graphic Amazon created quite a stir when it made the decision to release episodes of “The Boys” on a weekly basis. If you find yourself looking for a show on Prime Video to properly binge during the gap, and haven’t yet had the pleasure, I highly recommend watching “Upload.” The series, which originally debuted May 1, is, on its surface, a simple romantic comedy featuring a love triangle between Nora Antony (Andy Allo), Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) and Ingrid Kannerman (Al

Web Graphic. If you’ve ever watched the FX animated series “Archer,” you likely know it’s chock full of a mix of both adult and sophomoric humor. The idle clicker-style game for iOS and Android mobile devices, “Archer: Danger Phone,” follows the cheeky style of the television show in the most delightfully reprehensible way possible. The premise of “Danger Phone” is that the world’s economy has collapsed and Algernop Krieger, the mad scientist member of the Archer crew, has cr

Web Graphic. To accept the idea of the “hometown” that is to be eventually moved on from is to accept that youthful memories exist only to die or to be rewritten later. In childhood, one’s hometown is all of existence itself; familiar, immediately exciting to explore, then invariably dull and constricting. As one reaches adolescence, the instinct to leave as quickly as possible to begin to spread one’s wings is very much seen as a rite of passage in the United States. But to

Web Graphic On June 17, Game Freak released the first-ever Pokémon expansion for “Pokémon Sword” and “Pokémon Shield” on the Nintendo Switch. This expansion was the “Isle of Armor,” and it is Pokemon’s first DLC. In the past, when Pokémon wanted to introduce new content, its creators usually released a third game. These games are Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, Black 2, and White 2. However, the Isle of Armor is more than just a third installment game in the serie

Web Graphic As though magically re-materialized from thin air at just the right moment, the Emmy Award-winning animated series, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” returned to streaming giant Netflix’s catalog earlier this month, and little did we know just how much we would soon come to appreciate it once again. Many would consider it a defining work of art for the current generation. Upon viewing this relatively short narrative epic, there is little question why: The Eastern cultu

Web Graphic Of all of the TV shows released within the last 20 years, few have reached the level of success and critical acclaim that “Breaking Bad” has. However, Baking Bad may no longer be alone in this achievement. With “Better Call Saul” having just completed its penultimate season (Season 5), series creator Vince Gilligan continues to impress. While everyone loved the character of Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, due to the massive success and the finality of that show’s fi

Web Photo I remember watching the trailer of the movie “Just Mercy” and instantly wanting to see it. At first glance, it looked like a really powerful and impactful movie. It’s a drama, based on a true story that outlines the life of lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who fights for the rights of innocent African Americans who are wrongly convicted of crimes and facing death row. The movie portrays Stevenson (played by Michael B. Jordan) as a noble and strong individual who doesn’t give