When the lights went down this past Sunday at Boston’s TD Garden, no one in the audience was quite prepared for Rihanna — perhaps this decade’s biggest and best hitmaker — to come out singing “Stay” (2013), a rather soft ballad from her previous studio album. In the end, it didn't ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.The car and its passengers bounced so wildly in its speeding progress that Alicia worried that she would accidentally discharge the gun she held pressed against the steering wheel with one hand. Her father had thus far shown no intention ...
Written by David Ives, "Venus in Fur" premiered on Broadway in 2011 and was well received by critics, earning a Tony nomination for Best Play. Containing a play within a play, the storyline involves a blending of realities as actress Vanda Jordan auditions for the role of Wanda von Dunayev ...
In one of my earlier columns this semester, I may have mentioned a certain fondness for competition. It should, therefore, come as little surprise that in late January, I was among 70,000 intrepid know-it-alls who subjected themselves to the "Jeopardy!" Online Test. What I didn't expect ...
It’s been a long time coming, but arena shooters are finally making a comeback. Who better to lead this renaissance of a genre once dominated by some of the most iconic titles of the 1990s like “Quake” and “Unreal Tournament” than Blizzard Entertainment. They built the pinnacle of MMORPGs ...
It's the rare author who manages to switch between genres, going from witches and wizards to the everyday dilemmas of a modern family. Most find the genre in which they're most comfortable and stick to it, carefully staking out a path and wearing it down until it's a well-beaten track. But ...
Though the Museum of Fine Arts is one of the oldest art museums of United States — founded in the same year as Metropolitan Museum of Art — it is very much still interested in promoting and exhibiting contemporary art. The MFA’s still-evolving collection is already notable: it includes big ...
A few blocks away from Inman Square, at the corner of Cambridge and Elm, Bom Café stands out amid a crowded food scene. Bright yellow paint and colorful artwork cover the interior walls, alluding to the restaurant’s upbeat vibe. Loud, celebratory music turns every breakfast and lunch into a party. ...
Billed as a follow-up to “Dazed and Confused” (1993) and “Boyhood” (2014), “Everybody Wants Some!!," released March 30, is writer-director Richard Linklater’s latest entry into his genre of films that are more experiences than stories. Whether that experience is worth the price of admission ...
There are plenty of reasons to justify spending $99 a year on Amazon Prime (free two-day shipping, anyone?) and “Catastrophe” (2015 - present) certainly ranks high among them. The British import, which originally airs episodes on Channel 4 in the U.K., debuted its second season on Amazon’s streaming ...
College is a tricky time, a careful balance between the stubborn rebellion of high school, where you can scream at your parents one morning and peacefully eat dinner with them that night, and the calculated realities of adulthood, where you have to find a job and deal with a never-ending list of responsibilities ...
When I choose a piece to work on, I ask myself, how does it show off what my group is good at, and how does it play around our weaknesses? As members have rotated in and out over the years, I’ve had to continuously reevaluate how to do this. Part of the reason why I’ve found that people are more ...
For millions of millennials, the date March 25 will forever live in infamy. Exactly this time last year, British singer-songwriter Zayn Malik announced his departure from the boy band sensation One Direction, sending shockwaves through the Twitterverse. Following his surprise exit, Malik took toOne ...
True crime stories have been extraordinarily popular in the past couple years. With recent true crime hits like “Serial” (2014 - present), “The Jinx” (2015) and “Making a Murderer” (2015), it was only a matter of time before someone tackled one of the most infamous and controversial cases ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.Cecilia stared down at the gun in the planter. On the one hand, the man at her side, allegedly her grandfather (though at this point who knew?), had once been a dangerous criminal mastermind who now seemed to be a confused and harmless ...
Shonda Rhimes does not rest on her laurels. With three-hit series from her production company Shondaland, which is currently dominating Thursday nights on ABC, Rhimes likely keeps fairly busy juggling her various commitments to “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005 — present), “Scandal” (2012 — present) ...
A cappella, group singing performed without instrumental accompaniment, has long been a musical mainstay at universities and colleges across the United States and has rocketed into pop culture over the past decade as well. The “Pitch Perfect” (2012 - 2015) films, inspired in part by the antics ...
After finding immense critical success with “Take Shelter” (2011) and “Mud” (2013), Arkansas-born director Jeff Nichols has returned to explore the American south from an otherworldly perspective with “Midnight Special” (2016), a science fiction drama released March 18. At only 37, Nichols ...
An AV Club commenter has recently taken to keeping a running tally: number of "Jane the Virgin" (2014-present) episodes to date and number of bad or average episodes. Given that one of these numbers hasn't budged past zero, I'm clearly not the only one who thinks this plucky, ...
It is a breezy spring morning and roughly 10 students are in Dowling Hall to set up the exhibition for “Art In April X Active Minds." Just as they hang paintings and situate the installations, a large group of prospective students and their parents register for college tours. Undeniably, many ...
