Fans of “Blue Mountain State” (2010-2011), Spike TV’s ridiculous satire of football culture at state colleges, rejoice! After departing with the show's almost-inexplicable cancellation after three seasons, the Mountain Goats are back for a last big hurrah with “Blue Mountain State: The ...
“What happened after New Orleans?” asks the voice of the late Anthony Barre, better known as Messy Mya, over the intro to Beyoncé’s new surprise single, “Formation” (2016). Barre, a black comedian, rapper and social media celebrity who was killed at the age of 22 in November 2010, isn’t ...
Editor's note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.The millisecond before the bathroom’s motion-sensor lights came on allowed enough anonymity and formlessness for Cecilia to noticeably relax. She started to wash her hands but, finding herself in the mirror, shook her head in exasperation ...
It’s that time of year again, folks. Can you feel the love in the air? No? Fear not! Whatever your relationship status on Facebook, here are ten songs from 2015 for everyone this Valentine’s Day. Enjoying some Valentine’s Day romance: Miguel’s “Coffee” demonstrates that intimacy can still ...
Tufts University Art Gallery opened two new exhibitions, displaying paintings, photographs and multi-medium installations by three artists this spring.The first exhibition, located upstairs in the Tisch Family Gallery, is the first major retrospective show of the artist Tseng Kwong Chi. Titled “Tseng ...
“Best Animated Short Film” is one of the oldest categories of the Academy Awards, given by the organization every year since 1932. It is also arguably one of the most ignored. There are many reasons underlying the lack of attention the category has received, but primarily it is due to the fact ...
“Grease: Live,” had me a blast, “Grease: Live” happened so fast!
“Hail, Caesar,” released on Feb. 5, takes a pretty dim view of Tinseltown. This is hardly surprising; the Coen brothers, who directed it, have a well-documented contempt for Hollywood, expressed both in interviews and in previous efforts like “Barton Fink.”(1991) But modern Hollywood, widely ...
I’m at my grandfather’s old flat tucked within a sprawling hospital complex in the heart of Chennai. It’s 3 a.m., and everyone else has kicked their jetlag and figured out how to sleep through the air conditioner, which keeps things at a balmy 5ºC. I’m GChatting a friend stateside about how ...
Most people encountered Charles Dickens in high school, whether it was through “A Tale of Two Cities," “Oliver Twist” or “Great Expectations," and for many people, it was hate at first sight. According to many of the people in my high school English class, Dickens was long-winded ...
Super Bowl 50 (Roman numerals are temporarily out this year) is over and the Denver Broncos came out on top, defeating the Carolina Panthers 24 – 10. For those who aren’t particularly interested in football and who think Coldplay has degenerated into grotesque self-parody since 2008 (this writer ...
By all accounts, players were generally pretty bad at saving the world in Firaxis’ 2012 game “XCOM: Enemy Unknown." In “Enemy Unknown,” players took command of the titular XCOM, a shadowy intergovernmental organization established to defend the Earth from unknown enemies. The unknown enemies ...
The president has just gone on live TV to make an announcement: a giant comet is on a collision course with Earth and everyone on the planet has 34 days left to live.This is the premise ofNBC’s “You, Me and the Apocalypse,” which follows the lives of several seemingly unconnected individuals during ...
By now, most people know 40-year-old Sia Furler as the crazy-haired Australian pop star who refuses to show her face on television by wearing ridiculously big, blonde wigs. What most people do not know, however, is that she has written songs for some of the biggest pop stars of the modern era, including—just ...
For a school with a thriving a cappella presence, home to some of the most well-known collegiate groups in the nation, there is surprisingly scant information to be found at Tufts about what being in such a group entails. We hear about upcoming performances, albums, tours and community service collaborations, ...
Studded with specialty eateries, high-end lounges and quick service joints to accommodate even the most frugal of passing students, Harvard Square is a diverse but likely difficult market to break into for restaurant owners. That fact hasn’t stopped Fire + Ice Founder John Schall from introducing ...
In some situations, it is best to have no expectations. In others, the situation requires one to abandon any and all expectations completely. Both of these statements were true for the “Ubu Sings Ubu” (2016) performance at Club Oberon on Thursday night."Ubu Sings Ubu" is an adaptation ...
“Pretty Little Liars” (2010 - present) is the kind of show casual observers of pop culture think went off the air years ago. Frankly, it’s remarkable that after five seasons of increasingly absurd and hard-to-follow plotlines the show has enough steam to keep going. And yet, somehow, it appears ...
"Hearthstone" (2014) has run virtually unopposed in the casual CCG (collectible card game) genre since its release, with primary competitors like “Magic: The Gathering” (1993 - present) being far less accessible due to its steeper learning curve and a visually-uninspired video game version.Now ...
The road to Rihanna’s “ANTI" (2016), released Jan. 28, has been long and arduous for even the most devoted members of the Navy. For the uninitiated, the Navy is the loyal fan base of the 27-year-old Barbadian beauty, although the excruciating three-year wait since her last studio album “Unapologetic” ...
