Through Majors and Minors, I hope to bring music from various cultures to light. By interviewing international students and others with multicultural backgrounds, I want to learn and share both traditional and contemporary music from around the world — especially music that Tufts students listen to ...
On Saturday, Sept. 16, the Tufts University Gamedev Guild held its first general interest meeting in Eaton 206.At the meeting, attendees discussed their favorite games and game development, while some demoed their projects for the group. The Gamedev Guild was founded this semester by senior computer ...
Trump, look what you made Sean Spicer do. After an interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last week, former White House Press Secretary Spicer made the second stop on his 'reputation redemption' tour at the 69th Emmy awards Sunday night. His controversial appearance was early in the show, ...
In the first edition of Citizen Shame, we'll be taking a look at a movie that features Nicolas Cage talking weirdly. You might be inclined to ask: isn’t that every Nicolas Cage movie? You would be correct, of course, but in "Con Air" (1997), his voice somehow manages to be even weirder ...
Welcome back to another year of the singles bar! With fall only two days away, it is very clear that this season’s theme will be the tried-and-true comeback, which is especially welcome after radio’s relative monotony this summer. See how the latest pop comebacks stacked up below.Taylor Swift, ...
Contrary to its name, Arcade Fire's "Everything Now" had a long and gradual build-up before its release on July 28. Publicity stunts are hardly new for the band; to publicize their second album in 2006, the Canadian alternative rock group set up a hotline, 1 (866) NEON-BIBLE, that ...
On the evening of Sept. 12, hundreds of theaters across the nation were packed with music-loving movie-goers for the one-night-only premiere of “May It Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers” (2017). Fans of the folk rock band filled the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, lounging comfortably ...
Making a biopic about J.D. Salinger, one of the most private and enigmatic literary figures in history, is a risky undertaking. From his time in World War II to his lifelong problems with women and his later years in seclusion, Salinger hid what made him tick up until his death in 2010. Director Danny ...
Content Warning: This column mentions sexual violence.Hello, is this thing on? This is a column where I take a stab at the good, the bad and the ugly of pop music. Last year I kicked things off with a Kanye throwback, so let’s start with the complete opposite: whatever the heck Taylor Swift is ...
The second New York Fashion Week (NYFW) of 2017 drew to a close this past Wednesday with Marc Jacobs’ Spring 2018 show, where the brand’s tropical yet textile-heavy collection made an impact. While it was by no means the most adventurous collection of NYFW, Marc Jacobs S/S highlighted and played ...
Comedy Central’s “Broad City” (2014–) debuted its fourth season on Sept. 13. Diverging from the third season's two-part finale, which was set on a satirical Birthright trip, the fourth season brings the show back to its usual setting, New York City, to show how the lead characters met in ...
My view from the third row in the Cabot Center's ASEAN Auditorium made it increasingly possible for me to dismiss the sheer size of the room I was in. As my watch ticked nervously toward 10:30 a.m., more students continued to shuffle into the room. Some were visibly anxious, others were beaming ...
Netflix’s crime drama “Narcos” (2015–) returned to the streaming service on Sept. 1 for a third season. Set in the 1990s, this season follows the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Colombian government’s efforts to bring the Cali Cartel to justice, and the godfathers of the cartel’s ...
What’s the scariest thing you can think of? Horror has built an entire industry trying to answer that question, and while most Hollywood films in the genre act on a single possibility, Andy Muschietti’s “It” (2017) guesses over, and over and over again. The second adaptation of Stephen King’s ...
While it may not be syllabus week any more, there’s still time to take advantage of your light workload and check out what’s going on in Boston. With all the films, markets, shows and events going on around campus and in town, there are a great reasons to procrastinate, too. Don’t worry — your ...
Before the credits roll on Gurinder Chadha’s historical drama “Viceroy’s House" (2017), released worldwide on Sept. 1, title cards underline the human cost of the 1947 partition of India into the newly independent, decolonized nations of India and Pakistan. Over 10 million people, including ...
After controversy surrounding her work “Open Casket” (2016) led to heated protests at the Whitney Biennial last March, Dana Schutz became one of the most conspicuous figures in the contemporary art world. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) of Boston has also drawn support and protest from ...
In May of 2017, Dina Deitsch was hired as the director and chief curator of Tufts University art galleries. The newly plural title of the institution, which was previously the Tufts University Art Gallery, suggests that Deitsch's administrative involvement will work to creating a curatorial dialogue ...
Dogs, and dog memes, are having a bit of a moment on the web. The Twitter account WeRateDogs, which offers endlessly positive evaluations of dogs and their adorable shenanigans, has 3.38 million followers as of this writing. The Facebook page Doggos, which delivers a nonstop stream of dog memes, also ...
Almost every review of LCD Soundsystem’s new album “American Dream” (2017) mentions the same thing: the album is the perfect manifestation of what it means to age. This certainly has been a prominent theme for the band, ever since its first single “Losing My Edge” (2002). The song, deemed ...
