…6A — Thursday, January 10, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com With a target on their backs, Wolverines travel to Champaign On Thursday night in Champaign, Michigan will play in the most important game of Illinois’ season. The Illini, for all intents and purposes, are already out of contention for the NCAA Tournament with a 4-11 record. Already, they’re more or less out of Big Ten contention as well, having dropped...…
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…1. El Mal Querer — Rosalía “The Romance of Flamenca” is thought to be the first modern novel. Developed in the 13th century, it tells the story of a woman imprisoned by her jealous fiance — a twisted love story fraught with peril. El Mal Querer, the second studio album from Los Angeles- based but Catalonia-born singer Rosalía, is based on “Flamenca”, with each of the album’s 11 tracks serving as a chapter that details an increasin...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, January 10, 2019 — 3B 1. Voting as an aesthetic While a plethora of trends emerged on the runway in 2018, some of the most notable statements took the shape of a less wearable form. A year of political turmoil and tension, the push to vote became a major theme of this past year. With primary elections in Aug. and midterms in Nov., combined with an emphasis on change, voting became...…
…The TV beat has a problem: 2018 was a great year in television. On one hand, as the television addicts we claim ourselves to be, this “problem” has provided us with a myriad of excuses to avoid social contact and stay in. On the other hand, the consistent stream of quality television makes any effort to choose definitive favorites all the more difficult. The selection process itself was strenuous: on what criterion should we base our ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, January 10, 2019 — 5B 2018 was yet another whirlwind year in the hurricane that has been the last half-decade, but luckily books, new and old, kept writers from all beats on Daily Arts sane. The Book Review asked a handful of them to write about their favorite moments with a book, literature or even reading itself this past year. “Just Kids” by Patti Smith My exposure to Pat...…
…6. Black Panther In a year that saw dozens of heroes uniting to stop a universe-spanning calamity, “Black Panther” still became not just the best MCU movie of the year, but the best film Marvel Studios has put out to date. At its best, Coogler’s latest plays like a Shakespearean epic crossed with the visual panache of “The Matrix” with a little bit of James Bond thrown in for good measure. That’s a diverse set of influences for anyone t...…
