On April 23, the queen of the world-stopping digital drop, Beyoncé, released her sixth studio album, “Lemonade." The 12-track record, which dropped on the music streaming service Tidal during the HBO broadcast of an accompanying hour-long visual experience. The album surprised fans, just as ...
The first time graduating senior Danny Garfield picked up a video camera and started recording, he was seven years old. His earliest forays into film were animations of his toys. Film continued to be both a hobby and a fascination for Garfield throughout his childhood and into his high school years. ...
Eliza Hamilton-Fairley is a first-year from the U.K. who spoke with me about her passion for face painting, British fashion and her favorite London shops.Parker Selman (PS): How would you describe your personal style?Eliza Hamilton-Fairley (EHF): I don't really know how to describe my style because ...
Anyone walking down Professors Row on Friday afternoon would have heard the flying verses of Dutch Rebelle, seen students gathered on the grass of the Africana Center yard, felt the energy and come to the same conclusion about TrapFest that was being shouted by the crowd: it’s lit. Tufts' first ...
Season six of HBO’s smash hit series “Game of Thrones” (2011 - present) premiered on April 24 and opened with a recap of the previous season's seminal moments. The recap makes for a harrowing montage, reminding the viewer of all the murder, rapes, battles and religious fanaticism that defined ...
Perhaps a more underappreciated aspect of a cappella music is the technology that supports the singers, amplifying their sound so that it can be heard optimally in a given performance space.A cappella is often described as the music of the people in that it relies solely on the sounds made by the human ...
Going into the midseason premiere of season four of “The Mindy Project” (2012-present), Mindy and Danny’s relationship was in limbo. And in the premiere, titled “Will They or Won’t They?,” it became clear that, at least for now, they won’t. For a show written by and about a person obsessed ...
On Monday, prolific film scholar David Bordwell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison delivered a lecture about experimentation in storytelling techniques in 1940s Hollywood films. The talk, titled "The Switcheroo Tradition: Narrative Innovations in 1940s Hollywood," was held in Olin Hall ...
Prea Bhandari is a first-year who spoke with me about spiky shoes, hair dye and St. Thomas fashion.Parker Selman (PS): How would you describe your personal style?Prea Bhandari (PB): I guess I would describe it as gothic, but I change it up a lot depending on the day and what it’s like outside. Relatively, ...
If you missed the season premiere of “Silicon Valley” (2014 - present) on Sunday night, you weren’t the only one. The parody of West Coast tech culture returned the same night as its HBO sibling “Game of Thrones” (2011 - present), whose sixth season landed with something like a biblical impact. ...
After over thirty years in the industry, Indian filmmaker Mira Nair is in a class of her own. Quite literally, in fact; her movie “Salaam Bombay!” (1988) was the first Indian film since 1957 to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making her the first Indian woman nominated ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.The samples they were looking for were sequestered in a separate chamber within the biomedical lab. To this door Alicia had neither passcode, nor key nor any instruction as to how to gain access. This was as far as their research had ...
Only four months in, I've encountered a serious contender for the best episode of television I’ll watch in 2016. This week, my world was rocked by a cinematic, heartbreaking script brought to life by two beautiful, extraordinary actors — each of them less than half my age. I don’t much care ...
Tufts Junior and Computer Science Major Jeremy Slavitz has been making video games for years, ever since a promotional giveaway exposed him to Apple’s App Store. Slavitz received an iPod Touch with his first Macbook, beginning his path in game development that has continued in college.“I was playing ...
The old adage holds that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But when A$AP Ferg fired off a hasty tweet mistakenly trying to correct hip-hop manager Michael C. Clark on his use of the word “forthcoming” to describe his second studio album, triggering the customary Internet pile-on (“A$AP ...
It is 8:50 p.m. and the crowd is eagerly waiting for Father John Misty at House of Blues.The venue is fully packed, it is impossible to move in the general area. As the stage crew raises the microphone to nearly 6.5 feet, the audience is unable to comprehend what’s to come. Yet, when J. Tillman walks ...
I've read a lot of fantasy over the years, from the time that I was a little girl devouring the works of Diana Wynne Jones to my current complicated relationship with “A Song of Ice and Fire” (1996 - present) from George R. R. Martin (yes, I'm still waiting for “The Winds of Winter”). ...
“Ashes to ashes, dust to sidechicks.” Queen Bey is back, everybody. And we aren’t ready for what she’s brought us.Going into Saturday night, very little was known about “Lemonade," Beyoncé’s hour-long HBO event that had been announced just a week earlier. The special’s mysterious ...
I used to be terrified of singing in front of people. When I was a choir kid in middle school, one of my greatest fears was that I would forget the words to my solo or choke on a high note in front of hundreds of people. After singing solos for audiences for almost a decade, I no longer distinguish ...
For months, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been touting its new show, “Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces,” as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see works from the museum’s collection. But with its dark gray-blue walls and dim lighting, “Off the Wall,” despite its impressive ...
