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What’s up this weekend

Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Concert: Come hear students in the Tufts/NEC dual degree program perform classical, jazz and original compositions. (Saturday at 8 p.m. in Distler Performance Hall. Admission is free.)Jayme Stome’s Lomax Project: Join ...


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Ben Averill loves and lives music

Sophomore Ben Averill started playing trumpet in the fifth grade and hasn’t stopped since. A music minor with experience in Jazz Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and a member of Tufts’ homegrown band, Shark Saddle, Averill has made music a central focus of his time at Tufts. On top of all of that he ...


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T-Pain (auto)tunes out critics

It begins with an advisory: “This video contains explicit language.” At first, it seems likeT-Pain on NPR’s Tiny Desk should be funny. It sounds like a blast. Then he appears, and it's not the T-Pain fans are used to -- the one who wrote a song about falling deeply in love with an exotic ...


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Arts

Chaz Bundick builds latest moniker with first studio album

In 2010, Chaz Bundick, known to many as the indie-pop, chillwave, nu-disco (or almost any other genre out there) artist Toro Y Moi, began releasing music under a second moniker: Les Sins.Under this new name, Bundick has produced more dance-worthy music, characterized by strong bass. The three EPs released ...





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Arts

'Jane the Virgin' is refreshing smash hit for CW

The premise of The CW’s new show, “Jane the Virgin,” sounds more like a daytime soap opera than a popular network’s newest dramedy. Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) finds herself accidentally artificially inseminated ... that's when all hell breaks loose.Due to her mother’s teenage pregnancy ...


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MFA and SAC celebrate Halloweekend

There is no wrong way to celebrate Halloween in college. Some carve pumpkins (or put them on rooftops), others take trips to Salem, trick-or-treat at President Monaco’s house or attend campus parties. While art galleries are perhaps not the first places a college student thinks of while planning ...



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Arts

Bernadette Peters dazzles at Granoff Hall concert

A jagged line of shins and shoes stretched out into the hallways of Granoff Hall, nearly blocking traffic, as eager fans of Bernadette Peters sat against the wall, waiting. Hoping to secure rush tickets to the Broadway and television star’s 8 p.m. concert, students and local community members ...



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Bustle: a bastion of feminism, but is it the future of journalism?

In the era of instant gratification, serious journalism can occur on the web as well as in print. Online media is allowed informality and personality that traditional reporting lacks. First person narration is permissable online -- and so are memes -- but being boring isn’t. The desire to remain relevant ...


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Top ten halloween mistakes everyone has made

It's that time of year again. Time to pretend to still like dressing up in costumes and sneaking hand fulls of "bite-size" candies while you drink yourself into a healthy stupor: the best way to spend a weekend. And while Halloween is actually pretty fun, it's easy to find yourself ...


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Dothraki language app helps fans become speakers

“Gi suilon!” For mere mortals, this is how one greets a friend in Sindarin Elvish. Nerdy, it's true, but language and fandom have gone hand-in-hand for at least half a century. It began with J. R. R. Tolkien, a noted philologist and arguably the best fantasy author that ever lived, who decided ...


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Arts

What's up this weekend

Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Bernadette Peters in Concert: Bernadette Peters, Broadway and television star -- known for work on Broadway shows such as “Annie Get Your Gun” (1999 revival) and “Song and Dance”(1985 on Broadway) as well as the TV show “Smash” (2012 ...


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Columns

Halloween Screw

Dear SWUG, How does a SWUG celebrate Halloween? -- Senior Washed Up GhostDear Senior Washed Up Ghost, To quote "Mean Girls" (2004), a.k.a. the greatest film of all time, “In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is ...


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SaraMarie Bottaro explores communication, community

SaraMarie Bottaro balances her interests in peace and justice studies (PJS) and her multimedia work in graphic arts and bookmaking with the elegance and grace of a dancer. But, for the fifth-year School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA) dual degree student from San Diego, Calif., this should come as ...



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Television

Amazon releases game-changing drama 'Transparent'

Recently, television producers seem to have dug up a drama-ratings goldmine by exposing alternative narratives of post-modern American suburbia, stories that are missing from the "Leave it to Beaver" (1957 - 1963) genre of programming. They have given us a meth-slinging chemistry teacher in ...