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A step-by-step guide to finding your next book

By Helen Schmidt | April 5

Any chronic bookworm will understand the feeling you experience when you’re out of new books to read. The craving for a new story is too much to bear for very long, so a trip to the bookstore is necessary. I go through books like there’s no tomorrow, so I’m shopping for new reads every few weeks. When you step into the store, you take in shelf after shelf stocked with unread stories, each one begging you to pick it up. But how do you find your next book? Fear not, dear readers, for I have a handy step-by-step guide just for you!

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Reed Krakoff offers predictions for future of fashion

By Josh Morris | April 2

This past Monday evening, March 30, esteemed alumni Reed Krakoff (LA '86) visited Tufts and spoke to an audience of alumni and students. As part of the Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture Series, Krakoff came to Tufts to discuss his experiences in the fashion industry and to provide insights into ...

The Setonian
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Geometric destruction

By Emily Gruzdowich | April 2

The beauty of dilapidation reveals the cyclical nature of life. As the grandiose is detached from the grand, each component is shown in its singular form. The seamlessness of creation is fractured, unmasking the creator’s artifice. Life is seen as it is: unfiltered and unaware.Capturing the subtle ...

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Silent rave to happen tonight in Crane Room

By Jennifer Straitz | April 1

Campus swanster Marcella Hastings is honing her creativity yet again.  Luckily, all of the Tufts community will have a chance to participate in her latest enterprise tonight, April 2, at the Crane Room, where Hastings is set to host a silent rave.  This is no April Fool’s joke; this dance party ...

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Brandon Flowers releases spooky new video for 'Can’t Deny My Love'

By Anjali Nair | April 1

Brandon Flowers, the singer best known as the sultry front man of The Killers, released the first single  on March 30 from his upcoming album, “The Desired Effect,”set for release on May 19 in the United States. Bold and infectious, “Can’t Deny My Love” is a logical next step for Flowers, whose new wave and synth pop influences have been creeping into The Killers’ music since the band's debut in the early 2000s.

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'Into my own'

By Daniel Bottino | March 30

Graduation seems to be right around the corner. While everyone else on campus must be worrying about registering for classes next semester (that’s happening soon, right?) I am, along with the rest of the senior class, starting to realize that there are fewer than 50 days remaining until we’ve left ...

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Torn Ticket II production of 'Into the Woods' dazzles

By Grace Segers | March 30

From March 26 to March 28, Cohen Auditorium became a misty woodland, the site of fairy tales come to life. Student musical group Torn Ticket II’s production of “Into the Woods” (first performed in 1986), directed by Katherine Swimm, was a master class in college theatrical productions. The famed ...

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings energy, heart to Boston

By Grace Segers | March 30

From March 26 to 29, a beautiful, kinetic energy filled the Citi Wang Theatre in Boston, as the lithe dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater moved with powerful grace across the stage to echoing, often booming, songs and sounds. Although the Company danced only five performances from Thursday ...

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The Kesha Manifesto

By Nika Korchok | March 29

As the Tufts campus prepares to welcome one of pop’s biggest, most outlandish and crass stars to the Spring Fling stage, the Daily Arts Section set out to deliver a comprehensive history of her persona and her music, and to explain why she is a driving feminist force in the music industry.

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Kendrick Lamar exposes societal downfalls, shines on new album

By Yotam Bentov | March 26

The best hip-hop record in recent memory opens with a simple sound bit, sampled off of the 1974 Boris Gardiner song, “Every N****r is a Star” [this song title was altered during the editing process]. Kendrick Lamar’s "To Pimp a Butterfly" (2015) goes on to reaffirm, reject, tear, mend and scream this simple message of racial self-love. This is the record Kendrick Lamar has been waiting his entire career to make. It stands as a culmination of ideas previously established in Kendrick's work and fleshed out in full here; ideas about society, music, duty, evil and the way all these trappings are intertwined and self-propagating within his psyche. "To Pimp a Butterfly" is introspective, but is also driven by a simple mission of spreading light in a space that is dark – whether that space is Kendrick’s own mind or the community that surrounds him.

The Setonian
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Top 10 ways to cure your apathy

By Jessica Mow | March 25

Whether you went on vacation, went back home or stayed on campus over break, you probably are not ready to get back into the swing of things. In fact, if you're anything like the people I've been talking to, you’re not doing your homework at all. That’s okay -- you’re not alone, and with ...

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SWUG-et list

By Nikki Blank | March 25

My dearest Tufts students (and Nana),I am SWUGging out over here!!! Apparently there are only five weeks left of school, meaning that for one-quarter of the Tufts population, there are only five weeks left of college. BRB while I go curl up with my body pillow and cry to the sweet sound of Joni Mitchell ...

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'Game of Thrones' season 5 to diverge from plot of books

By Grace Segers | March 25

Fans of Westeros rejoice: Popular HBO television show “Game of Thrones” (2011-present) is returning in just a few short weeks. The fifth season of the series, which is based on the fantasy novels of the same name by George R.R. Martin, will premiere on April 12. Devotees of the books should take note, however, because the newest season is going to make some deviations from the original story.

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