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Five places on campus for Instagram-worthy portraits

Whether it's for your LinkedIn profile to land a job or your Tinder profile to score a match, you always need some versatile portraits on hand. For those looking for cool backgrounds for their headshots, here is a list of five places that will provide an interesting look and color to boost your ...


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Is This Thing On? Dialing into mental health with music

Hey everyone! It's only week four of the semester, but you may already be starting to feel overwhelmed — I know I am. In this vein, today's topic is a little more solemn from a lesser known rapper, Logic. When I think of Logic, I associate him with the genre of hip hop that boys in my middle school would pirate off the internet. But recently, the Beverly Hills-based artist is making waves in the music industry. While you may not be familiar with him, you may have heard his song "1-800-273-8255" (2017), which features newcomers Alessia Cara and Khalid, on the radio this summer. My first thought when reading the title on the Spotify charts was, “Wow, what a mouthful.” But a closer look at the song, which is titled after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, identifies an artist taking a leap for pop music by taking on such a serious topic.


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'The Great Glaspy' wows at the Sinclair

Riding off the waves of her debut success “Emotions and Math” (2016), Margaret Glaspy and her three-piece band rocked The Sinclair in Cambridge last Thursday, packed from the floor to the mezzanine with fans of the indie-folk songwriter. Within her set, which lasted about an hour and a half, she ...


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From 'Homogenic' to 'Utopia,' Björk is a warrior of love

In terms of success, Björk’s career has always been characterized by periods of ebb and flow, an inevitable consequence of experimentation. While “Post” (1995),“Homogenic” (1997) and “Vespertine” (2001) are considered cultural milestones of avant-garde pop, her later three albums, “Medúlla” ...


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Thoughts From Places: Barnum 113

On Mondays, I spend three consecutive hours in Barnum Hall. I make my way past the Jumbo statue and enter by the stone lions that guard the doors. In the façade etched into the stone, the building declares itself home of the biology department. As I wander through the labyrinth of far-too-yellow hallways, ...




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Weekender: TUTV's 'Legend' is centuries in the making

Monday marked the long-awaited release of “Legend” (2017), Tufts University Television's (TUTV) latest and largest-ever project. All eight episodes of the web series, which reimagine the characters of the medieval legends of Arthurian Britain as modern-day students at Camelot University, ...


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Majors and Minors: Thai music

Through Majors and Minors, I hope to bring music from various cultures to light. By interviewing international students and others with multicultural backgrounds, I want to learn and share both traditional and contemporary music from around the world — especially music that Tufts students listen to ...



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Praise be the Emmys for their big little prize

Trump, look what you made Sean Spicer do. After an interview on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last week, former White House Press Secretary Spicer made the second stop on his 'reputation redemption' tour at the 69th Emmy awards Sunday night. His controversial appearance was early in the show, ...


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Citizen Shame: An unnecessary second look at 'Con Air'

In the first edition of Citizen Shame, we'll be taking a look at a movie that features Nicolas Cage talking weirdly. You might be inclined to ask: isn’t that every Nicolas Cage movie? You would be correct, of course, but in "Con Air" (1997), his voice somehow manages to be even weirder ...


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The singles bar: The comeback edition

Welcome back to another year of the singles bar! With fall only two days away, it is very clear that this season’s theme will be the tried-and-true comeback, which is especially welcome after radio’s relative monotony this summer. See how the latest pop comebacks stacked up below.Taylor Swift, ...



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'May It Last' paints a portrait of the Avetts' brotherly love

On the evening of Sept. 12, hundreds of theaters across the nation were packed with music-loving movie-goers for the one-night-only premiere of “May It Last: A Portrait of The Avett Brothers” (2017). Fans of the folk rock band filled the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, lounging comfortably ...


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'Rebel in the Rye' is flattering, but falls flat

Making a biopic about J.D. Salinger, one of the most private and enigmatic literary figures in history, is a risky undertaking. From his time in World War II to his lifelong problems with women and his later years in seclusion, Salinger hid what made him tick up until his death in 2010. Director Danny ...


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Is This Thing On? I miss the old Taylor

Content Warning: This column mentions sexual violence.Hello, is this thing on? This is a column where I take a stab at the good, the bad and the ugly of pop music. Last year I kicked things off with a Kanye throwback, so let’s start with the complete opposite: whatever the heck Taylor Swift is ...


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Top trend takeaways from NYFW

The second New York Fashion Week (NYFW) of 2017 drew to a close this past Wednesday with Marc Jacobs’ Spring 2018 show, where the brand’s tropical yet textile-heavy collection made an impact. While it was by no means the most adventurous collection of NYFW, Marc Jacobs S/S highlighted and played ...


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'Broad City' season 4 premiere takes us back to the beginning

Comedy Central’s “Broad City” (2014–) debuted its fourth season on Sept. 13. Diverging from the third season's two-part finale, which was set on a satirical Birthright trip, the fourth season brings the show back to its usual setting, New York City, to show how the lead characters met in ...


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Thoughts From Places: The ASEAN Auditorium

My view from the third row in the Cabot Center's ASEAN Auditorium made it increasingly possible for me to dismiss the sheer size of the room I was in. As my watch ticked nervously toward 10:30 a.m., more students continued to shuffle into the room. Some were visibly anxious, others were beaming ...