Best Video Games of 2021 So Far

Halfway through 2021 already, eh? While things in the world slowly return to normalcy, we enter the summer with a great showing of new games to play in our downtime here at TYF. We’ve already seen emerging indie gems, comforting…

Melody on Music: Mid-Year Top 30

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…

2016 Midyear Review: Best in Film

Does anyone else have the feeling that 2016 has been an incredibly odd year for film thus far? Between the failure of sequels, some superhero duds, the summer in particular so far has been a bit of a let down…