Opinion and Column Writing @ DePaul University

Want to make an impact on the state of IL? Go to an e.t.c show at The Second City. The State Representative listens to his voicemail every morning and hears “Hi! This is Andy at The Second City! We’re here with the audience that wants to change poverty!” A loud cheer follows by the audience. [...]

In Fool’s Gold, the romantic comedy adventure starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, Tess (Hudson) and Finn (McConaughey) embark on a search for lost treasure from a Spanish galleon that sunk in the Caribbean almost three hundred years ago. Tess and Finn are in the middle of a divorce after their impulsive marriage. Finn has [...]

Women of all ages enthusiastically clean cemetery tombstones of their loved ones. This is how Pedro Almodovar chose to start his latest movie “Volver”. Love, forgiveness and loss are all intertwined in this two hour poignant story. Here the dead co-exist with the living, the real with the unreal, and the incredible with the mundane. [...]

I have spent my entire life and a great deal of effort pretending my parents didn’t have sex. I reasoned that my brother and I were results of freak occurrences like a third thumb or snow in Manila.

Who am I writing for: This critique is written for your typical music/entertainment magazine. The target audience is your “in the know” music fans who can’t decide if they need a 10th album from the same artist. ———————————————————————————————————— Beck is back. And while it appears the 90s alt-revolution rocker is going through his “turning 40″ [...]