Entries by Jack Walker

COLUMN: USC men’s basketball must heat up to compete in Pac-12

The normal order has been restored for college athletics in Los Angeles. USC football and UCLA basketball are back to their respective heights. USC is once again winning Rose Bowls with the best quarterback in college football leading the charge, while UCLA basketball is picking up marquee recruits and headlining a deep Pac-12 conference. While […]

REVIEW: Split thrills with its dark plot and horror

M. Night Shyamalan has had a mixed history in film. His career has seen many ups and downs, including commercial and critical hits (Signs and The Sixth Sense) as well as egregious missteps (The Last Airbender). After a few unsuccessful years, Shyamalan redeemed himself with the release of the 2015 film The Visit. The Visit, […]

REVIEW: Hopscotch in Concert redefines opera in live show

Hopscotch, the world’s first mobile opera performance, tells a unique tale of lovers burdened with the difficulties of life.  Debuting at iconic Los Angeles sites since 2015, Hopscotch was performed in 24 cars that would travel through the city. There were eight scenic routes taken, each telling a different segment of the story. When a […]

COLUMN: Average girls need body positivity too

In recent years, curvy body types have become overwhelmingly glorified, hypersexualized and ultimately, the hashtag-goals physique of Western entertainment. Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hun,” the “thick thighs save lives” mantra and the body-positive phenomenon that celebrates women of all shapes and sizes have arguably reshaped our cultural body standards […]