Actors from the Cambridge-based Underground Railway Theater performed a dramatic reading of a new play, "Sila," yesterday evening in ASEAN Auditorium.
Seeing somebody take a seflie in public has become a totally normal phenomenon. But imagine how it must look to somebody who is somehow managing to exist outside of our iPhone-obsessed culture. A person (read: a teenage girl) stopping what they're doing, holding her phone out an arm's length, and putting on her best duck-face is, in reality, a pretty strange thing to see. But, nobody thinks anything of it. We all know what taking a selfie looks like. We all know that if a selfie-taker is making a particularly heinous face, that selfie is definitely a Snapchat.
Divide and conquer was the mantra for the men's track and field team this weekend, as athletes went their separate ways - the majority to Boston University's David Hemery Invite, others to the Gordon Kelly Invitational at MIT. These two meets, sandwiched between two home meets, served as the final big-time events before championship season begins.
Upon winning the 2013 Defensive Player of the Year award in college football's grueling Southeastern Conference, he joined the company of NFL standouts Patrick Peterson, Eric Berry, Glenn Dorsey, Patrick Willis and DemecoRyans. Standing 6'2" in a 260-pound frame, he ranks among the best defensive ends in the country. Until yesterday, he was slated for as high as the third round in the NFL draft in May.
If rappers are the face of hip-hop, producers are the backbone. One of the classic four elements of hip-hop, DJing can make or break a song. Great production can send a track skyrocketing to mainstream and critical success; lesser instrumentals can leave even the greatest rappers sounding whack. Yet for such a crucial component of the music, producers consistently go underappreciated. Of course, it's easy to see why: after all, it's the rapper's name on the album cover, and you can't well sing along to an instrumental. Indeed, purely instrumental albums are a rare commodity, let alone one that receives any sort of popular or critical attention. However, there is at least one such album that made clear to the world that rapping is only half the equation: J Dilla's "Donuts" (2006).
At the height of his fame, MC extraordinaire Jay-Z had a choice to make. Should he honor the request of Kanye West, an innovative young producer who wanted to rap over some of the beats he himself had crafted, or abide by his peers' beliefs that those same beats would be better off saved for somebody else's record?
Watching the Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony was like viewing a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet Company performing "Swan Lake" (1875). Mystical, whimsical, beautiful and - at times - over the top, the entire opening ceremony was an exercise in elegance, extravagance and precision.
In the 21st century, some things have changed and others haven't. Folks may still be reading Moby Dick, but is reading the classic 1851 whale tale any different on the smooth yet phony inky-looking surface of a Kindle?
Students use iPads to watch movies, download apps and listen to music on the go, and now Tufts has begun to incorporate this mobile technology into the classroom. Tufts Educational & Scholarly Technology Services (ESTS), a university-wide service group that assists faculty in their use of technology, recently launched the iPads for Education Pilot to give faculty the opportunity to incorporate iPads into their curricula.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate announced the selection of new senators during its weekly meeting in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room yesterday evening.
Tufts Educational Day Care Center (TEDCC) is currently involved in an ongoing investigation of a teacher at the center who allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior with children.
The Tufts Idea Exchange (TEX), which will hold its fifth idea symposium on April 9, is currently accepting applications for potential student speakers.
The women's fencing team competed in the Northwestern Duals meet on Feb. 1 and 2, winning five matches and losing seven. The Jumbos faced the No. 8 Temple, No. 9 Northwestern and No. 1 Princeton - three teams ranked in the national top 10 and some of the stiffest competition they've seen all year. However, playing against the top fencers in the country served as valuable preparation for the team's upcoming Northeast Conference matches.
The newest addition to director Jason Reitman's long list of film credits ruins his streak of creating quality movies like "Juno" (2007) and "Up in the Air" (2009). "Labor Day" feels just like what it implies - two too many hours of hard, strenuous labor.
I wonder how many of us actually look forward to Valentine's Day. As in a completely genuine, totally unadulterated longing for the 14th of February. If you really consider it, it's got to be a pretty small percentage, don't you think?
Previously, I've talked about tropes that have both a good and a bad side, but which I still hold some affection for. However, this next trope is particularly pernicious and one of my own pet peeves in popular depictions of love: we rarely - if ever - get to see a couple actually being a couple. Instead, there's page after page, episode after episode, or scene after scene of them breaking up and making up and going through all kinds of angst about why they aren't together. Rarely - if ever - is a couple portrayed as staying together through most of the series and dealing with the actual challenges of relationships. I like to call it the No Marriage Rule.
For a group of the wealthiest, most successful people on the face of the Earth, professional sports owners sure do make bad decisions.
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine last month successfully treated a baby giraffe in critical condition from Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Mass.
Tufts MedStart hosted the Blue Button Boston Innovation Challenge at the Tufts University School of Medicine last month, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resource's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) H@cking Medicine.
Rachel Kushner, author of "The Flamethrowers," spoke at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) on Tuesday afternoon.
