2017: Best in Entertainment

It's difficult to narrow down all of the amazing television from the past year. However, the streaming platform, Netflix, and HBO continue to be trendsetters in what makes exciting and original television. Here are some of my picks from the past year. Riverdale- It isn’t a personal favorite but I can’t deny the love out there for this TV show. Loosely based off of the iconic character from t...

Imagine going back even three years into the past and telling someone that the title of “Game of The Year” was a competitive race between Mario, The Legend of Zelda, a 16 bit Sonic game, and a rubber hose era cartoon inspired game. While I found Breath of The Wild and Cuphead to both be phenomenal games and Sonic Mania was a huge nostalgia trip that even surpassed the original Sega Genesis trilogy,...

2017 was a great year for music, but only one song takes the cake for Song of the Year. Kendrick Lamar’s follow-up album to his magnum opus To Pimp a Butterfly, was DAMN, and the lead single of that critically-acclaimed album was none other than “HUMBLE”, a track that further cemented Lamar as one of the greatest Kings of Rap. The trap-style hip-hop single was released on March 30th and exp...

This year had a lot of solid album releases, including the debuts of SZA and Aminé with CTRL and Good For You, respectively; Kendrick Lamar’s critically-acclaimed DAMN; and the shockingly mature and amazingly-produced Flower Boy by usually-raunchy rapper Tyler, The Creator. However, another comeback album with a more mature sound takes the cake for the soundtrack of the year of 2017, and that’s ...