Dr. Strangelove

In celebration of their latest album “Slow Horse”, Stolen Rhodes stopped through New Jersey’s Timeout Sports Bar on their tour around the nation. The Philadelphian based band is no stranger to this local scene as they’ve played former hotspot for open band jams, Shady Katie’s. Matt Pillion (vocals, various instruments), Kevin Cunningham (guitar), Dan Haase (bass) and Eric Skye (drums) rolled out the night with the first track from the name album “Keeps Me Alive”. What a better way to introduce…

When one thinks of influential writers, Dr. Seuss, or renowned author Theodore Seuss Geisel often comes to mind. While his works are aimed for children and the younger generations, it is no secret that they teach valuable life lessons and reading skills for all. Specifically, Dr. Seuss used his World War II experiences to encourage young children and to build the next generation; one of the greatest examples of this, is “Horton Hears a Who”, which motivates people of all ages and walks of life…

other words, men try to be the wealthiest person because money means power, and being on top is what every man wants. There is nothing wrong with being wealthy, the problem is that most of the time wealth comes with a price. In the story “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss, talks about a man called the Once-ler that had a new invention that he thought everyone would want, which was made of truffula trees. The Once-ler became greedy causing animals to leave the land and cause the extinction of the truffula…

Kendrick Lamar is well known hip hop/ rap artist from Compton, California. He is also one of the most talked about artist in the music industry. He is signed with a small individual record label named Top Dawg Entertainment also known as TDE. He first joined the record label in 2010 with his formal rival Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q. His latest album, “To Pimp A Butterfly” surprisingly, doesn’t include any artist from TDE. Every song on the album only include him, which is not necessarily a bad…

In the classic book The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss tells a story about biases and the desire to fit in. The star-bellied Sneetches look down upon the non-star-bellied Sneetches. “With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort ‘We’ll have nothing to do with the plain belly sort!’” With the invention of a star on and star off machine, a cunning entrepreneur capitalizes on the Sneetches desire to fit in (and later to stand out) by adding stars to the bellies of the Sneetches without…

Defining war is easy; it’s an event in which two forces oppose each other. However, defining the war experience is more difficult. The war experience focuses on individuals rather than the forces as a whole. In the documentary “Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam,” viewers hear from many soldiers about their experiences. Tim O’Brien has talked about his experiences in the 1999 President’s Lecture and in his novels. From the documentary, the interview with O’Brien, and his novel, The Things…

Roy was very insecure about his body so he changed how he ate in order to get the body he wanted. Roy tried to change his body to what society wants and what major companies expect. Major companies put the idea of change is the only way to live life to its fullest. In the documentaries Jean Kilbourne’s Killing US Softly 4, Miss Representation, Byron Hurt Hip-Hop beyond Beat & Rhymes. We see how hyper masculinity and hyper femininity is shaping out society. Big Companies will do any thing to…

destruction of the facility, the deaths turn from unintended and foreseen, to intended. The pilot bombed the factory knowing fully that innocent people were going to die for the factory to be destroyed and still went through with their mission. In the case of DR, the doctors let the patients die without even being considered for treatment. In HC, the fetus is being killed knowingly. Even with the knowledge that the operation will be fatal for the…

competition, but more importantly, it was then where he 'd be discovered by an Interscope Records employee who would ultimately send that tape to Jimmy Lovine, the CEO of Interscope Records at that time. After hearing it and playing it for hip hop legend Dr. Dre, they found Eminem, and signed him to a record deal. Kanye West reputation was built in another way. He had been producing hip-hop beats since he was thirteen and had already began selling his beats to well-known artists and groups. That…

life of fictional Caine Lawson, a son of drug dealers trying to escape the dangers of a Watts project neighborhood. F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, released in 2015, follows the formation of N.W.A. and the biographies of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre. Although both directors employ vernacular…