The message was clear from the beginning. The day John McCain was announced dead from terminal cancer, my mother frantically called and relayed the news as if I hadn’t seen it everywhere already. Read more on ...
At 5 AM I was on a bus weaving its way through narrow roads, descending the Andes and heading towards Ecuador’s Amazonian region. Part of Temple’s Latin American Studies Semester, I was visiting Latin America ...
Throughout my internship with Hummustown, a Syrian refugee catering cooperative in Rome, I was swept into the magic of food and family. This essay is dedicated to both the amazing Hummustown staff and Laura Esquivel ...
“Prossima fermata: Basilica San Paulo. Uscita lato sinistra. Stepping off the subway at Basilica S. Paulo, I find myself in another part of Rome. The apartment buildings aren’t the color of sunsets and no pretentious cobblestone ...
Students and faculty members that showed up in the #YouAreWelcomeHereWeek (Photo Credit: Hoa Nguyen) Temple’s International Student Affairs office launched its first #YouAreWelcomeHereWeek event in March to celebrate a more inclusive campus atmosphere, and it was ...
Caption: Snowy owl flying over snow field, Canada COPYRIGHT:©Theo Allofs Last summer, I went to visit friends in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the visit, my friend, Faik, took me to the Heydar Aliyev Centre, famous ...
At any given night at my host family’s house, I am probably hearing at least three different languages. These days, when we’re all at the dinner table, I can hear English, Chinese, Japanese, and French. ...
The Liberty Bell, the Eagles, Meek Mill, Rocky, Cheesesteaks (wiz wit, obviously). These are all things that comes to mind when one thinks of Philadelphia. History, sports, food and entertainment are all things that come ...
The Oscars had a big job to do at the 2018 awards ceremony. It was plagued for two years by the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, pointing out how all of the actors and actresses nominated were white, ...
A somber, yet emotionally compelling narrative that escalates it’s intensity from start to finish. The story centers on a former government agent who becomes a self-employed orthodontist. He lives inside the same apartment building as a ...
1. AMERICANS LOVE GIVING RANDOM COMPLIMENTS Americans love to compliment random people. I first realized this during my first month in the United States. In the elevator of Anderson Hall, a girl got in and said ...
Lovers of sequential arts, filmgoers, and Marvel Comics fans have waited a long time for “Black Panther” to hit the big screen. In fact, it’s been 57 years since the Black Panther’s first debut in ...
Keep yourself attuned to all things Olympics this year, with coverage and analysis brought to you by Freely Magazine. Every other day, analysts Gabriel Zabala and Mai Do will reflect on what’s going on, who ...
We met on a Saturday morning at Le Pain Quotidien for the second edition of Freely’s International Book Club. In our first edition we discussed Americanah – check it out here. Read more on Book Club ...
With the year’s arguably most romantic holiday fast approaching, many of us have wondered at least once why love and romance are celebrated on that particular day. When looking at most of the other holidays, ...
When you think of Korean music, you probably don’t think of jazzy synthpop, but that’s what OOHYO delivers in her album Girl Sense. OOHYO herself is a singer songwriter who lives in Seoul, South Korea, ...
Joining a book club is something I have always wanted to do but until today I never got the opportunity. At the first Freely Mag meeting of the semester, our Lead Editor Alex mentioned that ...
