Author Archives: Kia Makarechi

With all the attention on media piracy, it’s almost as though any student holding an iPod is a member in some underground larceny ring.

Let’s go there for just one moment. Let’s pretend that all the banter and all-out hatred that is directed at Fox News, Bill O’Reilly, Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. is misdirected.

Today’s New York Magazine cover is graced by a nude version of none other than the media circus that is Lindsay Lohan.

I was watching some reality television with a friend a couple of weeks ago when something on the ever-present ticker at the bottom caught our eyes: “Actor Heath Ledger found dead in bed in Mary-Kate Olsen’s NYC apartment.”

With today’s gigantic primary-and-caucus-fest hanging over America’s political consciousness like the Southland’s stormy weather, two candidates have best demonstrated what has come to define elections: take what you can get no matter how you get it.

College students have long begrudged that an 18-year-old can fight and die for the country but not purchase a beer.

When children are especially young, parents often attempt a tactic that fails to work once the child reaches a certain age of cognitive competence.