A few blocks away from Inman Square, at the corner of Cambridge and Elm, Bom Café stands out amid a crowded food scene. Bright yellow paint and colorful artwork cover the interior walls, alluding to the restaurant’s upbeat vibe. Loud, celebratory music turns every breakfast and lunch into a party. ...
Billed as a follow-up to “Dazed and Confused” (1993) and “Boyhood” (2014), “Everybody Wants Some!!," released March 30, is writer-director Richard Linklater’s latest entry into his genre of films that are more experiences than stories. Whether that experience is worth the price of admission ...
There are plenty of reasons to justify spending $99 a year on Amazon Prime (free two-day shipping, anyone?) and “Catastrophe” (2015 - present) certainly ranks high among them. The British import, which originally airs episodes on Channel 4 in the U.K., debuted its second season on Amazon’s streaming ...
College is a tricky time, a careful balance between the stubborn rebellion of high school, where you can scream at your parents one morning and peacefully eat dinner with them that night, and the calculated realities of adulthood, where you have to find a job and deal with a never-ending list of responsibilities ...
When I choose a piece to work on, I ask myself, how does it show off what my group is good at, and how does it play around our weaknesses? As members have rotated in and out over the years, I’ve had to continuously reevaluate how to do this. Part of the reason why I’ve found that people are more ...
For millions of millennials, the date March 25 will forever live in infamy. Exactly this time last year, British singer-songwriter Zayn Malik announced his departure from the boy band sensation One Direction, sending shockwaves through the Twitterverse. Following his surprise exit, Malik took toOne ...
True crime stories have been extraordinarily popular in the past couple years. With recent true crime hits like “Serial” (2014 - present), “The Jinx” (2015) and “Making a Murderer” (2015), it was only a matter of time before someone tackled one of the most infamous and controversial cases ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.Cecilia stared down at the gun in the planter. On the one hand, the man at her side, allegedly her grandfather (though at this point who knew?), had once been a dangerous criminal mastermind who now seemed to be a confused and harmless ...
Shonda Rhimes does not rest on her laurels. With three-hit series from her production company Shondaland, which is currently dominating Thursday nights on ABC, Rhimes likely keeps fairly busy juggling her various commitments to “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005 — present), “Scandal” (2012 — present) ...
A cappella, group singing performed without instrumental accompaniment, has long been a musical mainstay at universities and colleges across the United States and has rocketed into pop culture over the past decade as well. The “Pitch Perfect” (2012 - 2015) films, inspired in part by the antics ...
After finding immense critical success with “Take Shelter” (2011) and “Mud” (2013), Arkansas-born director Jeff Nichols has returned to explore the American south from an otherworldly perspective with “Midnight Special” (2016), a science fiction drama released March 18. At only 37, Nichols ...
An AV Club commenter has recently taken to keeping a running tally: number of "Jane the Virgin" (2014-present) episodes to date and number of bad or average episodes. Given that one of these numbers hasn't budged past zero, I'm clearly not the only one who thinks this plucky, ...
It is a breezy spring morning and roughly 10 students are in Dowling Hall to set up the exhibition for “Art In April X Active Minds." Just as they hang paintings and situate the installations, a large group of prospective students and their parents register for college tours. Undeniably, many ...
Last week, BØRNS revealed via an inadvertent leak on his Facebook page that he would be performing at Spring Fling on May 1.It remains unclear whether the indie pop artist of Hulu commercial fame will be headlining this year, and since the announcement, speculation about other potential headliners ...
On September 5, 2015, then-unknown R&B artist dvsn (pronounced "division") released two songs, “The Line” and “With Me," to the popular music streaming website SoundCloud. Fast forward to this spring, when dvsn has released its aptly-titled debut album “Sept. 5th” — ...
Sometimes the hidden meanings in allegories are subtle and so expertly woven into the story that you barely even pick up on the message being presented to you. This was not the case in "Zooptopia." There was nothing subtle about the delivery of its social commentary. Maybe it would go over ...
Even when people talk about the fantasy genre with affection, remembering the books that they first loved as children and that continue to enchant them today, they rarely talk about fantasy as serious literature, the kind that reflects our world back to us and betters our understanding of it. There's ...
In one of the many trailers for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” which hit theaters on March 25, Lex Luthor (a poorly casted Jesse Eisenberg) sums up the impending matchup between the Dark Knight and Man of Steel as the “the greatest gladiator match in the history of the world.” For ...
In its second season, “I Am Cait” (2015 - present) remains, like its star Caitlyn Jenner herself, a confusing mess of contradictions. After a much-discussed first season, which aired on the heels of Jenner’s very public coming out, Caitlyn is back for another go with her the group of trans friends ...
Many people tell me that they really want to get started arranging, but that pesky learning curve is like trying to learn Dwarf Fortress. If you want to have an easier time getting started out, here's a few things I recommend you do:Learn music theory. A good way to get started with that is to take ...
