It’s nearly impossible to find a band today that rejects the lure of social media as adamantly as the Brooklyn quartetParquet Courts. While the vast majority of popular artists (and even those who operate under the radar, for that matter) succumb to the supposedly indisputable claim that digital ...
Henry Steinway began releasing smash club hits under the name Clockwork, producing remixes of songs by the big dogs of the EDM scene like Avicii. He found some success under the Clockwork moniker, but his connection to the work he produced sometimes seemed tenuous. He now seeks to establish himself ...
My favorite place to spend time is a bookstore. Some true book snobs will tell you Barnes & Noble is not an acceptable book buying experience, but for me, just being surrounded by books is wonderful. Libraries have the same effect, but only in bookstores do I see significant damage to my wallet ...
Tufts Asian American Alliance (AAA) and South Asian Political Action Committee (SAPAC) co-hosted the spoken word duo DarkMatter for a performance in Sophia Gordon on Nov. 15. titled #ItGetsBitter. The show explores issues at the intersection of LGBT rights and South Asian diasporic experiences.The duo ...
The film adaptations of “The Hunger Games” series have followed in the footsteps of the franchises of “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” by splitting the series' final book-to-movie adaptation into two separate films. “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” premiered on Nov. 21, and ...
The fourth studio album from the overnight boy-band wonder One Direction, “FOUR,” will undoubtedly be met with laughter in “sophisticated” musical circles. Released on Nov. 17, the band's most recent attempt will just as certainly be met with adulation and excitement among its slew of adolescent ...
You probably heard -- perhaps while trying to stream “1989,” Taylor Swift’s new album, released on Oct. 27 -- that Swift herself removed all her music from Spotify earlier this month. And you were probably pretty bummed that you actually had to (God forbid!) buy the album just to avoid becoming ...
Tufts is an environment that could foster a culture of artistic production and collaboration when it comes to making films. However, that hasn't been the case -- up until now. In a response to increased student interest, the Experimental College will begin to offer a film major starting next ...
Junior Dorian Pistilli is quite the interlocutor. With a quick wit coupled with a surprisingly sweet demeanor, Pistilli proves himself enigmatic -- and not just in conversation. As a computer science major and music minor, Pistilli is straddling two profoundly different worlds with skill. Though music ...
Announced by the old-fashioned ding of a gleaming brass elevator, the holiday season is here -- or, at least, a music video preview of it. On Monday, Idina Menzel -- of “Glee” (2009 - present) and “Frozen” (2013) fame -- uploaded her rendition of “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” to her YouTube ...
Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Dinner and a Movie presents "Maleficent" (2014): Come to the Women’s Center to discuss gender roles and tropes in film and literature in a modern context. Discussion will be led by Shannon Weber, sociology and women’s, gender and ...
We at the Tufts Daily Arts department are always shocked to find out that people read our content! Last week, our Top Ten included a delicate slight against hurdling as a sport. A few Tufts hurdlers had many things to say about this. Turns out that hurdling is a real thing -- who knew?! So, in order ...
"The Children’s Hour," a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman, opened at the Balch Arena Theater at Tufts this weekend. The show is set largely at a fictional boarding school run by two young women and close friends, Karen Wright (Grace Whittom) and Martha Dobie (Kristin Reeves), who ...
Woody Harrelson appeared on Saturday Night Live (SNL) on Nov. 15 as a guest host, reminding audiences that this weekend marks, “almost to the day,” the 25th anniversary of his first time hosting the show in 1989, a significant moment in his career to be sure. According to Rolling Stone, Harrelson’s ...
TV on the Radio’s fifth studio album “Seeds” should have been a colossal letdown. It’s been eight years since the jangling, alt-synth rockers shook their punk Brooklyn stomping ground with 2006’s critical darling “Return to Cookie Mountain,” and three slow years since they released anything ...
Aaron Sorkin -- famed creator of “Sports Night” (1998), “The West Wing” (1999-2006) and, more recently, “The Newsroom” (2012-present) -- is not known for his subtlety. Indeed, “The Newsroom,” which entered its third and final season on Nov. 9, has been criticized for its flashy portrayal ...
In a powerful scene from the second act of "Rosewater," where the film’s protagonist, from within his solitary confinement cell, imagines a Leonard Cohen song and finds himself dancing. At this point, he has been imprisoned for months and interrogated relentlessly for a confession. He is ...
It seems that this year’s Academy Award picks will be full of geniuses. Stephen Hawking's story, “The Theory of Everything,” released on Nov. 7, will join ranks with “The Imitation Game” (2014), a thriller about the life of mathematician Alan Turing, in the running for Oscar success. Unfortunately ...
For a show supposedly featuring intimate discussions with famous comedians, host Jerry Seinfeld spends an awful lot of time talking only about the cars he drives on "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" (2012 - present). Granted, the web series literally follows Seinfeld as he picks up comedians in various automobiles and takes them for coffee to ask them questions ranging from, “What was the first bit you did on stage?” to “What was an early time you got in trouble?” But the viewer has to wonder, is this “Top Gear” (2002 - present) or a web talk show with comedians as the sole guests? Perhaps, most confusingly, it is a little bit of both.
Another Netflix original is set to join the ranks of critically acclaimed and ravenously consumed series such as “Orange Is the New Black” (2013 - present), “House of Cards” (2013 - present) and “BoJack Horseman” (2014 - present). The company will adapt the delightfully morbid and macabre ...
