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…Wednesday, May 25, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Petite Maman’ is a real-life fantasy Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” was the first French film I ever watched. I had never thought that a film with sparse dialogue and devoid of a score could make me feel so many things. It was unlike anything I had ever watched before and I knew then that I was watching an artist’s masterpiece. It came as no ...…
…Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ just feels like one big step backwards When I walked into my hometown movie theater for a late Friday night screening of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” I was already in a pretty bad mood. My friend and I were running about 10 minutes late. Our lateness was exacerbated by the ridiculously long ...…
…Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Plotlessness paradoxically drives ‘The Candy House’ Upon reading the words “a novel” on the cover of Jennifer Egan’s latest book “The Candy House,” one wonders whether this is true. When “novel” seems nearly synonymous with “story,” can this semi-plotless book be considered a story? When does a story stop being a story? The book’s opening pages take us to an a...…
…Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — 3 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Lizzy McAlpine crafts an honest narrative of love and heartbreak on ‘five seconds flat’ In the world of TikTok and playlists, many artists trying to break into music are ditching big projects like albums and EPs and opting for more frequent single releases to increase their chances of being heard. Despite these arguments surrounding algorithms and playlisting, Li...…
…4 The complex future of UMich abortion access On May 2, 2022, what once seemed like a distant hypothetical became a sharply probable reality: the leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization revealed the Supreme Court’s plan to overturn Roe v. Wade, a historic case that has ensured federal abortion access in the United States since 1973. At some point this summer, the S...…
…4 When the school year ends Every year, I tell myself that things will be different in May. In those golden weeks between the end of the school year and the start of summer internships, I’ll take care of all the things I’ve been filing away in the back of my mind. Out of an excess of time, an idealized, optimized version of myself will emerge. I spent all of April planning for May. I needed to put money in my 401K, start training...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily. com Arts 4 — Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Haley Heynderickx talks music, honesty and change Seeing Haley Heynderickx perform live will change your conception of her music. You will realize that, all this time, she has not been trying to give you the answers: she is trying to ask the right questions. Even her tone — lilting, light, turning the ends of her phrases up in a comedic manner — often implies u...…
…11 Do we ever lose what was once ours? I don’t know why I thought writing this would be easy, or why I thought it would resemble the same process of all my past Daily pieces. I thought I would make my short trek to the Law Quad, bask in solitude with a carefully curated, mood-setting playlist and dedicate two hours to pouring my heart onto paper. In my head, it should have been that seamless. Automatic almost, or at the very least...…
…Wednesday, May 25, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com What will I be? TIAN YEUNG MiC Columnist Content warning: mention of suicide. Fourteen-year-old me was an anxious wreck with a negative outlook on life and my future. Despite my pessimism, on the day of career matching, I was hopeful that my result would ease the stress I had about choosing a career. I thought I could use this as an opportunity to...…
…Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Feliz Día de las Madres IRVING PEA MiC Columnist I love Mother’s Day. I love waking up Sunday morning to a plethora of Instagram posts from my friends dedicated to their moms and reading the beautiful tributes my mutuals write about their one and only. I love being left in awe when I come across pictures of my friends side by side with their moms and...…
…Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com I’m not ready to graduate VICTORIA TAN MiC Contributor Author’s note: I started writing for the Daily the winter of my sophomore year because I love to write — plain and simple. My main intention was never for my friends or family to read my work but instead to give myself a creative outlet and space where I could grow as a writer and collaborate wit...…
…Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — 5 Michigan in Color The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The cartoonishly-evil women characters of Asian entertainment One-dimensional is an understatement when it comes to the majority of female characters in East and Southeast Asians movies and TV — if they are even present at all. Of course, we are all too familiar with the doe-eyed damsel in distress with her dyed caramel locs getting scooped up...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, May 25, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief I n a leaked draft by Justice Samuel Alito, the majority opinion of the Court declared that Roe v. Wade, the land...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, May 18, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief T here is something comforting about the universality of soda. Any name-brand cola in the deep recesses of a gas sta...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, May 11, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief Bipartisanship is dead — so why do we use the word so often? I n politics, the word “bipartisan” is inescapable. Eve...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Opinion 6 — Wednesday, May 4, 2022 BRANDON COWIT Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. VANESSA KIEFER Editor in Chief Change in labor rights is brewing D ec. 9, 2021 marked a historic day for union organizers, labor activists and caffe...…
…Wednesday, May 25, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan exhausts bullpen options in regular season finale IAN PAYNE Daily Sports Writer With its postseason hopes locked in, the regular season’s end took a new purpose for the Michigan baseball team. Entering the day locked into the fifth seed of the Big Ten Tournament thanks to wins in their previous two games, the Wolverines took the opportunity to rest mos...…
…Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Draw control woes end Michigan’s season against Northwestern JOHN TONDORA Daily Sports Writer When mounting a comeback, streamlining the game plan becomes paramount. As time dwindles down, and desperation grows, teams must claw their way back with the basics and leave the fancy stuff behind. As basic as it can get, the first step of that comeback starts at the f...…
…Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Allen’s shaky Sunday caps off series loss DAVID WOELKERS Daily Sports Writer In his first three appearances since transitioning into the Michigan baseball team’s full-time Sunday starter, sophomore right-hander Chase Allen looked electric — giving up just three earned runs in 19.1 innings. With the fate of the series against Indiana still up in the air headin...…
…Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — 7 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan stays on top, claims CWPA Championship KELSEY RUFF Daily Sports Writer The No. 7 Michigan water polo team has not lost a conference championship since 2015. Over the past seven years, the Wolverines have gone unmatched against the Collegiate Water Polo Association. With six championships, the only time they didn’t win a title was due to COVID-19. On Sun...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Charlie Pappalardo: This weekend captured all of Michigan If you’ve followed the Michigan softball team throughout this past season, you likely know there is no clear cut storyline for the Wolverines. They started the season slow, streaked and slumped, and finished Big Ten play on fire. And throughout the rollercoaster year, I found myself confus...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Michigan falls in extra innings to Nebraska, losing Big Ten Championship NOAH KINGSLEY Daily Sports Writer EAST LANSING — Exactly 50 days ago, the Michigan softball team got punched in the mouth. In the first Big Ten series of the season, Nebraska came into Ann Arbor and swept the Wolverines in a doubleheader, putting them in an early hole in Big Ten play. F...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Michigan blanks Oklahoma, will host Super Regional ABHIJAI SINGH Daily Sports Writer Everyone huddled around the No. 1 singles court, anticipating that junior Ondrej Styler would clinch another victory for the Michigan men’s tennis team — just as he had in all three matches last weekend during the Big Ten Tournament. And with all eyes on him, Styler did exactly...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Michigan wins first Big Ten Championship since 1996 ABHIJAI SINGH Daily Sports Writer Following on his serve, graduate student Nick Beaty rushed forward, volleyed the ball toward a Buckeye deep in his backcourt and screamed in bliss as his opponent failed to deliver a return shot over the net. His victory gave the No. 7 Michigan men’s tennis team a 3-1 lead an...…
