BY MICHAEL LUO Short Fiction. (continued from our “Unconstrained” issue on 4/9/15) The fact that I had given up a year of collegiate social drinking for minimum-wage mind numbing was something I tried hard not to think about. My dad, the same guy who sent me potato chips for Christmas, said a gap year was […]
BY MICHAEL LUO Short Fiction. There were only five of us, and since I was the youngest by a decade, I did most of the scanning. We all sat in one family cubicle. Our supervisor couldn’t afford those stale, plastic dividers. We didn’t have fake walls to separate us. We did it anyway with our […]
BY MICHAEL LUO A sibling I always wanted. RJ and I tried to stay warm underneath the tarp we tried to build. It wasn’t the greatest architectural achievement of the twenty-fourth century, sure, but no one could blame us for trying. Except God. She must’ve thought it was funny to have a downpour on a […]
BY MICHAEL LUO Short Fiction: A sandy alternative to sweetness. “Did you get it?” “I think I got something.” “You probably missed.” “We’ll see about that.” RJ wanted to come, but I told him to stay. Then I forgot he was my brother and not my dog, so he came along anyway. For all the […]
BY MICHAEL LUO The difficult decision of wanting songs with limited resources. Digital media is in an age of streaming. From Spotify to Netflix, entertainment has become not something you buy and own, but rather, a limitless collection for you to pay and subscribe. With services that offer free-with-ads or paid ad-free streaming, digital entertainment […]
BY MICHAEL LUO An evening with Micheal Flaherty. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, memories are painful not because they are held, but because of the loneliness with which the Giver holds them. “Memories need to be shared,” says the Giver. This idea to share the good and the bad is brought to screen well in […]
BY MICHAEL LUO Unexpected musical collaborations Musical collaborations are something of a hip trend. When you turn on the radio, the most advertised songs are usually the ones with the biggest stars. Of course, these tend to be one from pop and one from hip-hop. The archetypical Top 40 hit involves a catchy chorus and […]
BY MICHAEL LUO A selected preview of happenings near Harvard. An Evening with Champions September 19 at 8:00pm & September 20 at 7:00pm Bright Hockey Arena www.aneveningwithchampions.org An exhibition of champion figure skaters for the purpose of fighting cancer. Student-run and non-profit, this showing of world-class figure skaters “is motivated to support Dana-Farber Cancer Institute […]
BY MICHAEL LUO The surviving gardens of Istanbul. At first glance, the Yedikule Gardens appear more to be a sparse collection of private farms trapped amid the dawn of the days of Constantinople and the booming gentrification of modern Istanbul. These bostans, or market gardens, are situated along the edges of encroaching apartment complexes and […]
BY MICHAEL LUO Picturesque parables told under fifteen minutes. Parisian theaters are supposed to be known for their atmosphere of voguish panache, so when I had the opportunity to view a film in La Ville-Lumière, I made the decision of selecting an animated one that is rated G. To be honest, I was probably one […]