TV’s favorite post-traumatic optimist returned to the small screen on April 15 with the release of the second season of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2015 – present) on Netflix. The much-anticipated 13-episode season was developed exclusively for Netflix and thus boasts episodes with longer ...
As tomorrow's release of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” inches ever closer, let us enjoy the time we have left with the catchy hits set to dominate the airwaves this summer. After all, the past couple of weeks have yielded a number of outstanding singles. With the stage finally set, the battle for ...
Georgia Kay is a junior at Tufts who spoke with me about Melbourne style, her slight obsession with cravats and what she thinks are the biggest fashion faux pas.
With the semester entering the final weeks, the usual glut of work is upon us — research papers, problem sets and the always-painful group projects are inescapable this time of the year. Although nearly everyone is trying to complete the piles of homework they’ve been assigned, no end-of-semester ...
The semester may be winding down, but it seems like every group on campus has something to offer this time of the year. Check out what's happening on campus this weekend.Tufts International Club Presents — Navigating Cultural Identities: Home & Transition:Curious about cultural identities ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.Alicia got out of the car first, keeping the gun trained on her father, as she carefully shut her door and walked around to his side. He made no move to escape before or after she opened his door and gestured for him to get out; rather, ...
BBC America’s sci-fi thriller “Orphan Black” (2013 — present) returned last week with a stellar fourth season premiere, promising stronger episodes ahead after a mediocre third season.The episode, “The Collapse of Nature," transports viewers back in time to events before thefirst episode ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwgFour billion dollars seems like an awfully high price to pay for a galaxy far, far away, but when Disney shelled out for the rights to “Star Wars,” they weren’t just buying the rights to make a new trilogy but rather the potential to create a constellation ...
For the show that inspired me to apply for this column slot in the first place, it’s sure proved difficult to write about "Friday Night Lights" (2006-2011). Seriously — I put it off for months, hoping I’d eventually be able to pinpoint just what makes this show so damn great. But here ...
Long before the young adult craze took over bookstores and movie theaters, there was Greek mythology. Endowed with supernatural powers but still unmistakably human in their emotional volatility, gods like Zeus, Hera and Ares were in many ways the forerunners to more contemporary figures like Harry ...
The fifth season of ABC’s “Scandal” (2012 - present), one of the many brainchildren of creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, returned from its midseason hiatus on Feb. 11 with a less than stellar start. Following the promise of the season’s first nine episodes in which issues of abortion, ...
The first-person shooter — where players take command of, and see through the eyes of, a gun-toting protagonist — has been the granddaddy of video game genres for over 20 years. FPSs dominate various “game of the year” lists and a first-person shooter has, without fail, been the bestselling ...
PJ Harvey has been quietly releasing some of the music industry’s bravest and most innovative albums over the past 20 years. Quiet is relative in this case, as critics laud each of her albums. Yet, compared to her 90s counterparts Radiohead and Björk, she is more or less ignored by the public. Perhaps ...
Last week, I wrote about an author who switches effortlessly between genres, and this week, I am focusing on an author with a similarly unique talent. Kate Atkinson's works cover a wide variety of genres, whether it be a coming-of-age story, a crime novel or a work of historical fiction set during ...
Diners have high expectations when they enter Puritan & Company, partially due to its location at Inman Square.A number of Boston’s finest eateries are placed at a 5-minute radius of the square, including Boston classics Oleana and Bondir. If Puritan & Company is able to survive the competition, ...
Thomas Stumpf, a piano teacher and co-director of the Opera Ensemble at Tufts, talks about a piece of music in terms of a public speech; having too many words or notes is self-indulgent, while having fewer and clearer notes reduces needless verbiage and cuts away the unnecessary weight. This is how ...
Sophie Krakoff is a junior at Tufts who talked to me about New York style, and her prized pair of Louboutin’s.
When show creator Adam Reed spilled some beans about the new season of “Archer” (2009-present) at San Diego Comic Con a few months ago, he gave fans reason to be excited — as if they needed more than the return of one of television’s best anti-heroes. He called the seventh season, which premiered ...
On Boston’s Newbury Street, the city’s fashion and retail hub, there’s an abundance of little details that catch the eye. Walking along the street in early spring, you might spot shoppers ducking into the high fashion standards like Chanel and Valentino to escape the unseasonable Boston weather ...
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 ...
