Yesterday morning, I sat in the backseat of a friend’s car in downtown Boston at a red light that never turned green. I don’t mean that as an exaggeration. The chorus of blaring horns stretching for a block behind us didn’t tip us off to the fact that the light was broken.We sat with the windows ...
Mona Kareem’s poetry reading on Saturday felt like a gathering of old friends. The homey atmosphere of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, which hosted the event, as well as the elaborate spread of cheese, crackers and wine in the entryway and the small-but-attentive crowd created an intimate, ...
In the opening scene of “Timbuktu” (2014), a group of radical jihadist soldiers try to hunt a gazelle from their SUV. Using a mounted gun, they pursue it across the sparse desert landscape, with brief pops of gunfire interrupting the splotchy sound of their car bounding over the rocky soil. There ...
Third Day Gospel Choir, a massive gospel singing group of over 200 Tufts students, performed its first concert of the year, “Everything I Need,” on Friday. Directed by Music Lecturer David Coleman, "Everything I Need" consisted of ten masterfully arranged gospel songs, some classic and ...
American fashion designer Jeremy Scott, since first entering the fashion world with his eponymous line in 1997, has been redefining flamboyancy and glamour with his frequent use of floral prints, bold colors and sparkles in his designs. He has even been likened to Andy Warhol for the way he “likes ...
LCD Soundsystem holds a special place in any musicophile's heart. The band is the project of one James Murphy, a multi-instrumental, record-producing, label-managing, songwriting bundle of talent incarnate. His sound draws from a plethora of genres — disco, rock and punk, just to name a few — ...
Editor's note: This article contains spoilers for the HBO series “Big Little Lies.”The final episode of the HBO miniseries, “Big Little Lies” (2017) took viewers on an emotional roller coaster on April 2. The series has captivated its audience with artful shots and complex characters, but ...
This semester, the Daily has covered a myriad of events, from faculty-sponsored performances such as "Art Flashes" to student-organized exhibitions like "NASTY WOMEN x Tufts." These events not only showcase the talent of Tufts students, especially since Tufts acquired the School ...
ARIESThe new moon last week ushered in a new month, and it’s your time to thrive, Aries. Use any aggressiveness that might be stewing inside to square up to your self-doubt, and confront the bad habits that are holding you back from where you need to be. This is your season, Aries, and red is your ...
Why should you play "Rampage Knights" (2015)? Because it is arguably the most fun you’ll ever have playing a cooperative roguelike.Inspired by the shiny-eyed, cartoon nightmare that was "The Binding of Isaac" (2011) and the hack-and-slash mechanics of "Golden Axe" (1989), ...
Charles Simic will read his work at the Hirsh Reading Room in Tisch Library today, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The Serbian-American poet, translator, essayist and memoir writer will be reading select poems from his latest poetry collection, “The Lunatic" (2015). Throughout his career, Simic has ...
April Fools' Day — once infamous for cling-wrapped toilet seats, toothpaste-filled Oreos and the birth of the Weasley twins — has transformed into a wildly marketable holiday for companies, granting them a free pass to dupe consumers for 'fun' and, you know, money. Even if you didn’t ...
“His messages became… curt,” a friend explained to me over coffee, shrugging her shoulders. She was describing a shift that had taken place in an undefined relationship: the trailing-off in text messages that often signals the end of knowing the person.
While some people might have had reason to curse on April Fool’s Day, fans of Adult Swim’s hit TV show “Rick and Morty” (2013-present) had reason to celebrate: the network unexpectedly announced that the premiere of season 3 would be airing that night, with the option to either streaming it ...
Museums often play to only one of our five senses: sight. Many museums were built on the assumption that vision has surpassed all other senses in its ability to communicate and express. In the exhibition “Listen Hear: The Art of Sound” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, contemporary artists ...
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is now showing a new exhibit called “'I must tell you what I saw:' Objects of witness and resistance” in its Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. It consists of only eight objects and pieces of art, but pays due diligence to them all. The exhibit seeks ...
“Life itself is a proper binge,” Julia Child once famously said. “What are you?" Gordon Ramsay once asked, to which he received the reply, "An idiot sandwich.” Though the two quotes seem incongruous at first, in the 1985 Japanese classic comedy-western “Tampopo,” the Julia Child-esque ...
In the fashion world, few designers have been able to constantly draw inspiration from their national and cultural heritage and remain relevant for a long time like Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Dolce, who is originally from a town near Palermo, never fails to incorporate visual ...
As far as science fiction films go, those that play on the ‘trapped in space’ trope have much to offer, but also much to overcome. Jump-started by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic “Alien,”this category of sci-fi films typically features characters who are forced to battle disaster, aliens or both, ...
What makes a successful commencement speech? Perhaps the most crucial component is the speaker. Usually, the speaker must come from a background that meets the interests of the majority of the graduating class: while an 80-year-old litigator might excite pre-law students, biology majors might end ...
