USC promotes healthy eating, doesn’t deliver


Fun fact: If you type “fast food desert” into the Google image search bar, an image of Figueroa Street pops up. The three-block stretch of Figueroa close to USC contains virtually every fast food chain imaginable.  We live in a fast food desert: healthy dining is hard to find, and it is often very far […]

Super Bowl commercials: The good and the bad


Every Super Bowl party has one: that guy who’s “only there for the commercials.” And probably free beer and nachos. But that guy’s got a point – companies pull out all the stops for Super Bowl Sunday, to convince a massive crowd of roaring sports fans that they need a brand new Chevy or 6-pack […]

Can Lana Del Rey get a little love?


In the weeks following Lana Del Rey’s unpolished performance on Saturday Night Live, critics have run to the press with every reason not to like Del Rey. The evidence used to bolster their point is that she doesn’t write any of her own music, her lyrics are immature, she is the epitome of what happens […]