“I don’t just want potato latkes … I need them,” I told my roommate Saturday morning. One of the things I miss most about home is my weekly trip to the local Jewish deli. For weeks, I had been dreaming about matzah ball soup and noodle kugel. After a quick Google search, we hop in a car and ...
How did Nerd Squad go from being a group text name to a blossoming production company settling in the heart of the entertainment industry, merely months after its inception? The answer is passion, unwavering commitment and dreams.And for them, it is only the beginning.The members of Nerd Squad Entertainment, ...
"The Crown" (2016) is marketed as Netflix’s most ambitious project, and in a sense, it is: the show is rumored to have a production budget of $156 million, a humongous number for any type of series. Additionally, the show is planned to span six seasons, with an alternating cast depicting ...
Tove Lo has never been one to play by the rules. The Swedish singer-songwriter’s breakout hit, “Habits (Stay High)” (2013), introduced a style of pop that had little precedent on American Top 40 radio as Tove sang about the need to numb her emotional pain via substances and partying. The track’s ...
https://twitter.com/ProjectRunway/status/794363434641096705Almost all of us have experienced the heightened drama associated with a group project. You are stuck with people you don’t know very well and then forced to produce your best work. Some groups synergize, and some groups suffer from mixed ...
Since the election will finally be over after today, I feel it’s only appropriate to approach political films in this column. This is mostly a byproduct of my habit of actively ignoring all remotely political news and kind of just hoping it will go away. However, as Election Day drew nearer and nearer, ...
"Might I offer you some advice? Forget everything that you think you know," quotes secondary protagonist Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) in the newest Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film, "Doctor Strange" (2016).Fourteen movies in the ever-expanding MCU need refreshment after the ...
It is evident from “Hacksaw Ridge,” Mel Gibson’s first film as a director since “Apocalypto” (2006), that the director's filmmaking ability has not waned in the intervening decade.The new film is a chronicle of real-life World War II conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield),a ...
The opening line of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” (1967), in which he sings "There’s something happening here / But what it is ain’t exactly clear," is something you've probably said to yourself (many times) in the past year with regard to the 2016 presidential election. Let’s get right into it. Music is a creative outlet for artists and a source of entertainment for listeners. But more importantly, though perhaps often forgotten, it’s a powerful tool for social change.
At the kickoff of Blizzard's annual convention, BlizzCon, on Nov. 5, game developers informed fans about upcoming content and provided an opportunity for a deeper look into what is coming next for the company's titles. Blizzard's eternally-popular multiplayer online role-playing game ...
Halloween may be over, but there are still plenty of things to check out this weekend.FRIDAY and SATURDAY"Gem of the Ocean"Don’t miss out on your last chance to see Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play this weekend. A post-show discussion will be held after Saturday's performance ...
At Sharewood Projects’ annual Spookapella show, more than half a dozen Tufts groups took the stage, but one arguably stood out the most: the all-female a cappella group the Ladies of Essence. Performing Estelle’s 2008 single “Come Over” and Stevie Wonder’s 1976 soul masterpiece “Isn’t ...
Lady Gaga is back – again. After an unusually long absence on pop radio, the former dance pop queen known for thrilling hits such as “Just Dance” (2008) and “Bad Romance” (2009) has returned with her fifth studio album and taken the eponymous moniker of her deceased aunt Joanne, which is as ...
https://twitter.com/ProjectRunway/status/791807358615842816?lang=enWhat is streetwear? This is the question that plagued designers on this week’s episode of "Project Runway" (2004-present) as many stepped out of their comfort zone of cocktail dresses into the “Urban Jungle” (it’s clever ...
As I was going over my plans for flying home over Thanksgiving, “Elizabethtown” (2005) came into my head immediately. In the film, Orlando Bloom portrays Drew Baylor, a shoe designer who returns to his Kentucky hometown for his father’s funeral. More famously, however, “Elizabethtown” is the ...
On Oct. 21, the Tufts University Permanent Art Collection acquired "Fold XII," a painting by the famous abstract painter Sam Gilliam. The piece is like nothing else in the gallery: The colors bleed together on the canvas in an array of vibrant hues that make the painting stand out among ...
As a faithful owner of the fourth and fifth iterations of Sid Meier's "Civilization" series, it was only appropriate to cover the latest iteration in an acclaimed series that has long been the pinnacle of the 4X genre. Many players hoped that developer Firaxis had learned its lesson after ...
In the second sequel to “The Da Vinci Code” (2006), “Inferno,” which was released on Oct. 28, sees the fate of the world rest on the structural integrity of a Ziploc bag. The fact that this is the least of the film’s problems speaks volumes. But yes, evil billionaire Bertrand Zobrist (Ben ...
Happy (post-) Halloween! Here's something that is probably scarier than checking your Venmo history from this weekend — your iTunes library from 2008! As a tween, you probably dabbled a little -- or a lot -- in the emo-pop-punk scene or whatever name you gave to the music of Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects, Panic! At The Disco and many more. It’s just one part of our adolescence that the middle schoolers in 2016 don't have. Perhaps today’s youth aren’t any less embarrassing than we were, but they do have VSCO filters, which kind of take the edge off. Technically speaking, real 90s kids experienced their formative years in the mid-2000s, and what a time it was. Yes, I’m talking about sleepovers spent playing Rock Band (2007) and texting on LG flip phones with monthly SMS limits. What better way to get over your ex than by blasting “The Great Escape” (2006) by Boys Like Girls? So I have a few questions: Why did this music end? Where are they now? And will there ever be a resurgence of our angsty teenage anthems?
One can only go to Sound Bites, Renee’s and Tamper so many weekend mornings before things start to feel monotonous, especially when there are so many other brunch places to check out in the greater Boston area. One of these is Café Luna.Only three stops away on the Red Line, this Central Square spot ...
