Spoiler Warning: ‘The Bear’ Christopher Storer’s masterpiece, The Bear, has released its most anticipated third season, but the ten episodes served to us fall short of their predecessors. Following the employees of newly opened restaurant ‘The Bear’, we watch as Carmy begins to butt-heads with Sydney and Richie over the direction of the restaurant. The pace is slower, but instead of continuing season 2’s tight focus, season 3 becomes somewhat disjointed and unsatisfactory. H

“It’s a two party system, you have to vote for one of us!” are the wise words of Kang and Kodos in The Simpsons 1996 episode ‘Treehouse of Horror VII’. The two aliens are running as Democratic and Republican candidates, but are unmasked at the last moment. Still, despite the fact they’re aliens, the people must vote - it’s a two party system after all. The scene is great, but even funnier is the moment someone in the crowd pipes up, declaring “I believe I’ll vote for a third

If there is a holiday which President George W. Bush is unlikely to forget, it is the one he took during August 2005. On the 29th of that month, Hurricane Katrina, spreading over 650 km and at speeds of over 200 km/hr, hit New Orleans. Mass destruction and unprecedented flooding ensued, resulting in over a thousand casualties and an estimated $100 billion in damages. On that same day, Bush was enjoying the sun at his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. He would continu

I have spent the past three years searching for an easy answer to the question, ‘How does one write?’. I yearn to find some way to cheat the system, to write well, and be done with it. On my hunt, I have found more material than I could even read, and as I have not sifted through it all, I will not bore you with it. I will instead introduce the one piece of writing advice I am sure you already know, the age-old adage: write what you know. The simplicity of this line is a ble

As with most Olympic Games, the United States made a clean sweep of the 1924 edition. Yet the real victors of the competition might well have been the French, whose event hosting was later gloriously immortalised in the 1981 Chariots of Fire . Exactly one hundred years later, the birthplace of the modern Olympics will once again welcome all nations to its capital. On paper, the occasion will be even grander: the International Olympic Committee (ICO) has almost doubled the num