Spirit of Phillips May ’25

Dave Moore & Linnea Hadaway have lived here since the Reagan 80s and became life partners while originating the cartoon series “Spirit of Phillips.”

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CHROMAKOPIA Is A Gorgeous, Wowing Album That Encapsulates the Time We Live In

By ARABELLA FRACISCO

Arabella Fracisco’s original review first appeared in the November 2024 issue of The Southerner, a student-written and student-produced newspaper at South High School in Minneapolis. The Southerner can be found online at www.shsoutherner.net.

Editor’s Note: Last month the alley featured the first five tracks of Arabella’s thoughtful and inviting review of CHROMAKOPIA. This month we are treating readers to a peek of tracks 6 – 10.

I Killed You, the sixth track on the album, focuses on the complex relationship that Black people have with their hair. Society often frowns upon natural styles, leading many to “kill” their hair by cutting or straightening it. “But I guess the coils and kinks became an issue, therefore bitch I killed you with Jerrie’s and Mimis, I burnt you, I cut you, I filled you up with chemies.” The song captures the struggle between self identity and societal expectations, which can often erase the things that make us who we are.

In Judge Judy, the seventh track on the album, after meeting a girl named Judy at a cafe, Okonma talks about his relationship with Judy and his understanding and acceptance of who she is.… Read the rest “CHROMAKOPIA Is A Gorgeous, Wowing Album That Encapsulates the Time We Live In”