Martin Cid Magazine — Culture, Entertainment & World News

A jury cleared Lizzie Borden; the culture never did. Netflix’s Monster hands its true-crime machine its first acquittal, and its first real woman, restaging the 1892 Fall River killings as feminist black comedy from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.

Women’s tennis moves its year-end championship to a Charlotte NBA arena from 2027 — closer to fans, but squeezed from eight days to five, and announced without the record purse Riyadh paid.

K-pop engineered the idea of the girl group ‘concept’ long before the phrase went global. Four generations of groups have built careers on assigned identities — cute, fierce, retro, cyber — each one looking like liberation from the last. Whether any of them added up to freedom is the question the industry has never fully answered.