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LUKAS RAICH / CC BY-SA 4.0 Ferreira contends that Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 6 overly dramatizes Formula 1 racing. 

Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 6 is far from a smooth operation

By MARIANA FERREIRA | March 4, 2024

If you ever sit in your bed and get the sudden urge to watch a group of some of the world’s cockiest men drive around in circles with super fast cars, Formula 1: Drive to Survive might just be the thing for you. The sixth season of Formula 1: Drive to Survive came out on Feb. 23 on Netflix with ten brand-new episodes. This sports docuseries portrays the ten Formula 1 (F1) teams along with their 20 drivers. 

ARUSA MALIK / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR This week’s picks include Pokémon Horizons: The Series, released by TV Tokyo, The House of Hidden Meanings by Rupaul, Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande and a VR Exhibit, titled “War Up Close” at the JHU-MICA Film Centre. 

To watch and watch for: Week of March 3

By TIMOTHY MCSHEA | March 3, 2024

This week’s picks include Pokémon Horizons: The Series, released by TV Tokyo, The House of Hidden Meanings by Rupaul, Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande and a VR Exhibit, titled “War Up Close” at the JHU-MICA Film Centre. 

This week’s picks include the highly-anticipated follow-up to the first Dune movie, a novel about generational trauma, Wandering Stars, by Tommy Orange and the comedic play, Chicken & Biscuits, by the Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theater Company.

To watch and watch for: Week of Feb. 26

By HELENA GIFFORD | February 27, 2024

As the midterm season finally comes upon us (and probably won’t fade out until late April), we at the Arts & Entertainment section think that now is the best time to ignore all your responsibilities and spend a night at the theater or curled up with a good book!

ARUSA MALIK / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR This week’s picks include Avatar: The Last Airbender (live-action TV series),  A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal, Loss of Life by MGMT and “In The Stacks,” a live performance by Opera Baltimore at George Peabody Library.

To watch and watch for: Week of Feb. 18

By TIMOTHY MCSHEA | February 18, 2024

This week’s picks include Avatar: The Last Airbender (live-action TV series),  A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal, Loss of Life by MGMT and “In The Stacks,” a live performance by Opera Baltimore at George Peabody Library.

PATRICK AKA HERJOLF / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In With a Little Luck, a high schooler finds a 20-sided die which magically grants him extra luck, letting him achieve all the things he thought he wanted.

The novel With a Little Luck is a lighthearted take on love and luck

By ALICIA GUEVARA | February 18, 2024

Can you ever be too lucky? Is there such a thing as having too much luck? Before reading the novel With a Little Luck by Marissa Meyer, I probably would have answered “no.” Why wouldn’t you want to wake up on the right side of the bed every morning? Why wouldn’t you want to avoid stepping in a mound of dog poop on the sidewalk or splattering tomato sauce on a white shirt? Why wouldn’t you want to always be lucky?

PETER HUTCHINS / CC BY 2.0  Following rapper-producer Ye’s year-long public fallout due to his spewing of antisemitic rhetoric, music critics are attacking his recent collaboration album VULTURES 1 with singer-producer Ty Dolla $ign while forgetting the importance of unbiased musical analysis.

Ye and Ty Dolla $ign's VULTURES 1 sparks a critical diatribe

By TIMOTHY MCSHEA | February 17, 2024

Critics are talking about Kanye West (Ye) irresponsibly. After multiple listening parties, the announcement of two extra volumes, release dates that came and went, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign finally released their collaboration album VULTURES 1 on Feb. 9. The critical response, at least so far, has been singularly negative.

 ARUSA MALIK / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR  This week's picks include the newest season of popular reality dating show Love is Blind, as well as the release of the newly translated Korean novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop.

To watch and watch for: Week of Feb. 11

By HELENA GIFFORD | February 11, 2024

Love is in the air this week as we roll into Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re spending the evening with your partner, or just enjoying a Galentine’s Day with your best friends, be sure to check out this week’s recommendations for date night ideas.

HELENA GIFFORD / ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR In the first performance of Witness Theater’s 2024 I-Show, a pair of space pirates try to board a spaceship, only to realize that they never really liked being pirates in the first place.

Pirates, hijinks and murder abound in Witness Theater’s I-Show Performance

By HELENA GIFFORD | February 7, 2024

There’s one thing that makes everything cooler. Space. Why have a story about pirates when you could have a story about space pirates? Why watch a play about a normal old divorce attorney when you could watch a play about an intergalactic divorce attorney? And sure, stories about people going insane are cool and interesting, but what about people going insane on a spaceship?

COURTESY OF BEN JOHNSON Peabody Opera Theatre adapts the classic 19th-century opera Hansel & Gretel with jazz instrumentation and Baltimore set pieces.

Peabody Opera Theatre’s adaptation of Hansel and Gretel takes on a Baltimore aesthetic

By TIMOTHY MCSHEA | February 6, 2024

The Peabody Opera Theatre and Peabody Symphony Orchestra’s adaptation of Engelbert Humperdincku’s Hansel and Gretel, which was performed last Friday, Feb. 2, sets the original fairy tale in Baltimore. At times the setting feels half-baked and unfitting for the 19th-century romantic themes, but there are small moments of resonance between the fairy tale’s messaging and the current problems facing Baltimore. 

ARUSA MALIK / DESIGN AND LAYOUT EDITOR This week's picks include the highly anticipated collaboration album between Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign Vultures as well as two new episodes of th Genius series, covering the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X.

To watch and watch for: Week of Feb. 4

By TIMOTHY MCSHEA | February 4, 2024

Here’s the Arts & Entertainment’s selections for this week’s “To watch and watch for.” If you feel anxious about classes, take time to unwind and maybe watch, read or listen to our suggestions!

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