While the TikTok ban on Jan. 19 stayed in effect for less than 24 hours after Trump put a reprieve in place, the popular entertainment app is still in danger of being censored by the United States Supreme Court, and with it, potentially the voices of many up-and-coming musicians.  

The St. Catharines Performing Arts Centre has announced a month full of arts programming to celebrate Black History Month.  

Lucy Dacus expertly reflects on the double-edged sword of breaking someone’s heart in her newest single “Limerence.”  

In a culture obsessed with idealized images of love, why is teaching love as a practice so uncommon? 

Clerel, a Cameroonian-born Canadian artist featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and who is set to play at this year’s SXSW festival, innervated the ears and hearts of an intimate Burlington audience with a set of stripped-back soul-infused ballads during his first live performance of the year. The soul singer sat down to speak with me backstage where he contemplated playing live versus recording in studio, teased the release of his next EP, and got both philosophical and personal about where soul music is today and what the genre means to him.  

Score: 3.5/5  The long-anticipated second season of Netflix’s Squid Game is a surprisingly solid follow-up to the show’s original nine episodes, though it doesn’t quite live up to the high bar set by the first season.

It’s become too difficult to wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release. 

Renowned American filmmaker and artist David Lynch passed away at the age of 78 on Jan. 15. His death was felt throughout the film industry and cinephile community. An iconoclast and pioneer, there will never be another quite like Lynch.  

Score: 3/5  Gia Coppola’s third film The Last Showgirl is a quiet, intimate portrayal of a woman grappling with her troubled past and uncertain future. It’s a dazzling albeit sobering reflection on social issues around aging.

Score: 4/5   The latest project from American singer-songwriter Hayden Silas Anhedönia, known professionally as Ethel Cain, is an unapologetic, challenging descent into the depths of lust, sexuality, perversion and self-realization.