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Podcast

'Serial' provides weekly entertainment and suspense

“Serial” (2014 - present), a spinoff podcast of "This American Life" (1995 - present) hosted by Sarah Koenig and produced by Julie Snyder, breathes life into a neglected medium of storytelling, allowing its audience to fall back in love with the radio in a new way. "Serial" ...


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Arts

Motion and music meet in Sarabande's fall show

Clad in sweatpants and sporting messy buns, Sarabande dancers made their way down Talbot Avenue this week, filling the studios of Jackson Dance Lab with the distinctive high-energy bustling that can only be attributed to days leading up to a show. Or, as it is affectionately named, "Hell Week." Since ...



The Setonian
Arts

What’s up this weekend

Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Tufts Arts Career Night: Interested in a career in the arts? Join the Tufts Art History Society for a presentation with an informational discussion panel. Professionals in the arts world who live in Boston will discuss their work, offer advice ...



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Soubhik Barari, unapologetic and uncensored

Junior Soubhik Barari is the modern renaissance man -- a bad boy in a band who specializes in computer science and romance. He is redefining what it means to be in a band in college, managing his time well so that neither work nor play is sacrificed; the only victim is sleep.Barari came to Tufts a ...



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Ryan Hemsworth's new album takes on melancholic tone

Ryan Hemsworth's latest release is entitled "Alone for the First Time.” Yet on this album he's certainly not alone, and it's definitely not his first release. Hemsworth has hand-picked independent artists, chosen through his Secret Songs record club -- a community of like-minded ...


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'Big Hero 6' succeeds at box office

With its release of “Big Hero 6,” an adaptation of the little-known Marvel comic by the same name, Disney has officially jumped on the superhero bandwagon. Though one might think people have had their fill of origin stories and are just about sick of watching troupes of fighting heroes in wacky ...




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'Interstellar' stuns with visual and emotional depth

For a film about space, "Interstellar’s" long first act has a very earthly setting: an arid, generically midwestern, desert-like farm. Upon entering the film, viewers find themselves in a near-future reality where an unnamed blight has destroyed most crops, and in which humanity has retreated to a mostly agrarian society. Here, former astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a disgruntled but responsible farmer whose daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy, Jessica Chastain) ages considerably between Cooper's space missions. Cooper's family stumbles upon hints of a secret NASA mission to travel through a wormhole to discover potentially habitable alien planets. Cooper’s former mentor, Professor Brand (Michael Caine), enlists him on the mission along with Brand's own daughter (Anne Hathaway). From there "Interstellar" -- which was released on Nov. 5 -- launches into a wild adventure across worlds and time.


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Amy Poehler's sincere new memoir offers humor, inspiration

Amy Poehler’s new book, “Yes Please,” is refreshingly honest, raw, hilarious and even inspirational. Hitting shelves on Oct. 28,“Yes Please” is not a traditional memoir, but rather a hodge-podge collection of personal essays, stories about her career and the people with whom she has worked and snippets of life advice. While the pages are sleek and shiny, stuffed with photographs from Poehler's own life, the messages she gives the reader are genuine and down-to-earth. In “Yes Please” Poehler reminds both fans and critics that she’s just a middle-class Boston -- OK, technically Newton -- girl who worked very hard for many years and used her strengths to succeed. In doing so, the book attempts to convince readers that Poehler is just an ordinary woman. But while her humanity and her struggles are highlighted, the pithy and creative ways with which Poehler talks about adversity are nothing short of extraordinary.


The Setonian
Columns

A picture is worth a thousand words

Hello literature lovers! It’s been a long week at the tail end of a long month, and I’m sure everyone is still rattling from the aftershocks of midterms. The only things getting me through it all are numerous -- yet massive -- cups of coffee and the books I’ve been reading to balance the madness. ...



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Arca releases exhilarating, experimental debut album

If you haven’t heard of Alejandro Ghersi (aka Arca) yet, you’ve probably heard of some work with which he has been involved. He helped produce four of the darkest “Yeezus” (2013) tracks with Kanye West, worked as a producer on FKA Twigs' “EP2” (2013) and is slated to co-produce Bjork’s ...




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Speedy Ortiz gives enjoyable, energetic concert

 Of the many '90s-influenced, noise-rock bands to enter the local music scene, Speedy Ortiz has perhaps garnered the most praise in recent months. With two fuzzed-out guitars, thunderous drum beats and caustic lyrics courtesy of frontwoman and self-described “third grade poet” Sadie Dupuis, ...