With commencement just around the corner and families gathering together for celebration, it seems fitting that Marvel’s newest film also features another gathering of celebrated characters. Following on the heels of the much-lauded first entry, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017) attempts ...
This morning, a friend showed me a video of myself that was taken almost two years ago on my 20th birthday. In the 90-second clip, I am holding court over a living room of our friends, unable to finish a sentence without laughing, my hair bleached from two months of tour guiding. I look blissfully bewildered.That ...
One would be hard-pressed to find someone juggling as many mediums in the Tufts comedy scene as graduating senior Sam Gordon. Since coming to Tufts in 2013, the Westchester, N.Y. native has been writing, filming, editing and performing sketches and stand-up for groups across campus, combining his ...
Why should you play "Left 4 Dead" (2008) and its sequel, "Left 4 Dead 2" (2009)? Because they were engineered to be the perfect replayable shared narrative experience for up to four players. And before you scoff and say, “Fury, isn’t 'Left 4 Dead' a zombie game? Aren’t ...
Written and directed by graduating senior Cinthia Chen, "Anna May Wong: The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths" comments on racial issues in Hollywood and tells the story of Asian-American actress Anna May Wong. The show was produced as an International Literary and Visual Studies senior ...
Content warning: This column discusses sexual violence.In the first scene in “Elle” (2016) following her violent sexual assault, Michelle Lèblanc (Isabelle Huppert) walks into her living room, cleans up the scene and picks up her cat. Looking at her cat with scrutinizing, measuring eyes, she holds ...
Few designers have incorporated technology in their work like Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, especially famous for his “Pleats Please” line and his “BaoBao” geometric bags. He is a firm believer in the importance of art and museums as inexhaustible sources of inspiration for the fashion ...
“The Handmaid’s Tale" (2017-present), Hulu's original series based on the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, creates a terrifyingly resonant horror story in which women have absolutely no control over their lives or even their own bodies.The show takes place in a dystopian future ...
Netflixhas been producing its own shows for years now, and it has seen much success in making its own content. While most of these shows are unique, notmany are focused around creating dialogue and givingvoices to marginalized groups of people. Enter “Dear White People” (2017–present), one of ...
This year’s Spring Fling will have the first all-black lineup since 1982, when Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers and Chubby Checker performed at Tufts. The 2017 lineup, which originally consisted of T-Pain, Tinashe and Aminé, was selected amid complaints about inadequate race representation ...
Why should you play "The Stanley Parable" (2013)? Because it makes you sincerely, wholeheartedly want to play through the same short series of absurd events over and over until you fully realize the awesome power of office tedium, game in-jokes and devastatingly sarcastic fourth wall breaking.
With daily breaking news and general commentary on President Donald Trump's positions, plans and actions, one proposal threatens to slip under the radar: the intent to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in a new federal budget plan.The plan would also end funding for the National ...
German independent game developer Tinytouchtales had quite a hit with its first game “Card Crawl,” which released on mobile devices in 2015. “Card Crawl” received critical acclaim and managed to carve out a niche audience -- no mean feat in a mobile game market almost totally dominated by ...
I took a job last summer because my bosses loved poetry. They were looking for a nanny for their three-year-old son. When I came to their house for an interview, expecting questions about past childcare experience and summer availability, they sat me down and asked if I’d ever read Wendell Berry.The ...
In a correspondence regarding a Sandro Botticelli about to come on the market in 1894, Isabella Stewart Gardner's main collection advisor Bernard Berenson famously posed to her:“How badly do you want a Botticelli?”In response, Gardner secured “The Death of Lucretia” (1496-1504) before the ...
In an early and pivotal scene in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Julieta” (2016), the young version of the titular character (Adriana Ugarte) rebuffs a conversation with an older man on a train. As she leaves and strikes up a conversation with fisherman Xoan (Daniel Grao), the train stops suddenly. With a ...
Chelsea Handler is known for never holding back. Her fiercely honest critiques of public figures, which used to only target celebrities, have now shifted to prominent politicians in her new Netflix talk show, "Chelsea" (2016–present).To introduce the second season of the show, which ...
For my column this week, I decided to throw it back to the 1930s, when Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel were the two rivals contending for the title of queen of the fashion industry. Schiaparelli eventually lost that 'rivalité,' as her name today is clearly not omnipresent as Chanel. The ...
A lot of people are suckers for games about pirates -- not so much the plundering and looting part but the part where you sail ships around and put broadsides into enemy vessels. Naval gameplay should give the player the feeling of excitement they would get if they were fighting in the climactic battle ...
Tufts social outreach and music group Public Harmony is hosting a Spring Showcase in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room tonight from 8:30–10 p.m. The free performance will be the group’s first on-campus event since their creation last spring.“We became TCU-recognized this fall, and we’re a ...
