Critical Writing
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home.made’s Brunch Returns with Fusion of Southern, Contemporary Influences
I expected home.made’s revival of its Sunday brunch to be the reflection of yet another minimalist, all-lowercase-name, lifeless restaurant. I was met with a delightful surprise that the chef and owner, Mimi Maumus, offers a pleasant hodgepodge of menu items that contain elements of Southern culinary style blended with their…
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New Thai Restaurant in Athens Offers Dreamy Dishes
I walked into Puma Yu’s — a new Southeast Asian restaurant in Athens — an avid hater of all things coconut and almond adjacent. I left stupefied, knowing that over the next few days I’d crave the almond-flavored tart filled with mango and pineapple, pillowed under a fluffy dollop of…
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Book Reviews: Three Takes on Crime Thriller ‘All the Broken Girls’
Broken girls blossom into warriors in ‘All the Broken Girls’ By Dania Kalaji Broken girls blossom into warriors — or crime reporters who seek justice for the unsolved murder of their mother. Eventually, those girls find themselves hungry for answers at the center of an eerie web of murders in…
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From TV to Thriller: Linda Hurtado Bond Uses Journalism Career to Write Latest Crime Novel
Linda Hurtado Bond adapts her skills as an award-winning news anchor of over 20 years to her work as a fiction writer. Her crime mystery “All the Broken Girls,” which was released in late August, allows the Tampa, Florida-based journalist to combine these writing styles and background knowledge from the…
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Reviewing ‘She-Hulk’: Light-Hearted or Fourth Wall Flounder?
Wondering whether to watch the newest Marvel movie — ‘She-Hulk’? See what two of our critical writing reviewers had to say. Review: ‘She-Hulk’ Transforms Between Light-Hearted and Heavy-Handed The first episode of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” Marvel Studios’ latest streaming offering on Disney+, tells the origin story of…