This spring is turning out to be a busy season for pop culture watchers. “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” roared into theaters this weekend, garnering almost $170 million at the box office.The ever popular “Game of Thrones” is set to air its highly anticipated sixth season on April 24, and ...
A new curved screen. A water resistant design. A virtual reality experience. Although this sounds like the feature set for some type of do-it-in-your-bathtub scuba experience set, the Galaxy S7 Edge brings all of these features and more that might not be expected. The incredible waterproof design, terrific ...
Over spring break, the CW did a thing. Characters on both “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and “Jane the Virgin,” which air back-to-back on Monday nights, explicitly interrogated whether their women-led stories pass the Bechdel test. Each show’s writers could’ve strung together an episode’s worth ...
On March 18, Netflix released season two of “Marvel’s Daredevil.” The series follows the blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), who fights crime at night, as Daredevil, the morally conflicted vigilante of Hell’s Kitchen. The second season focuses on Murdock’s struggle to balance his two ...
On March 11, dream pop band Beach House took the stage at the House of Blues for a sold-out show, returning to Boston after two new album releases and nearly four years of international touring. Joined by two backing instrumentalists for its live performances, the critically-acclaimed duo, French-born ...
Bass lines matter. In pop music, especially, we look for the bass line to tell us how to get into the groove of the song, and that holds true for a cappella. Even when the other harmonies are off engaging in some rhythmic shenanigans, the bass continues to ground the group in the correct key and time ...
Few frills, good food and gallons of coffee. That just about sums up Renee’s Cafe. Right outside the center of Teele Square at 198 Holland St., Renee’s has an unassuming vibe with a touch of homeyness, with its eclectic paintings and other decorations that adorn the walls. The highlight of the ...
Tufts’ Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) put on its annual culture show, titled "Familia Feud," last Saturday evening in Cohen Auditorium. The show featured singing, dancing, spoken word and skits and was packed with entertaining and emotionally-charged performances.True to ...
Alice Tattevin is a first-year from Paris, France who sat with me to discuss the difference between French and American fashion, her addiction to shoes and the benefits of everyday apparel over runway couture.Parker Selman: Where are you from?Alice Tattevin: Paris, France.PS: How does Parisian fashion ...
The Whitney Museum’s decision to move from its Madison Avenue location to the Meatpacking District was a bold, yet very smart judgment for many reasons. Moving downtown meant moving away from big name competitors such as the MoMA and Guggenheim. Yet the move also meant that the museum is now closer ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.In retrospect, Cecilia could see how hacking the classified historical records of a foreign country’s security service might have been a bad idea. She’d done it a few times for her non-profit back home, always without informing her ...
Members of Tufts’ oldest student organization, theater group Pen, Paint and Pretzels (3Ps), have created a collaborative decision-making space for student directors to share and discuss production ideas. The group convened late last fall to hear proposals for major productions for the upcoming ...
To promote his new film “The Brothers Grimsby," Sacha Baron Cohen decided to showcase the shocked, frightened and definitely disgusted reactions elicited by teaser clips deemed too graphic to include in traditional trailers. Cohen took the clips to Jimmy Kimmel's show, then to Dwayne Johnson ...
The arrival of warmer weather brings the end of the musical drought that lasts through the first quarter, from January to March, of each year. While this music season has been somewhat of an exception due to thrilling (surprise) releases from Rihanna, Beyoncé, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, big pop ...
Every week on his podcast "Freakonomics Radio" (2010 - present), award-winning journalist Stephen Dubner takes his listeners behind the scenes of a phenomenon in our everyday lives that we may not give a second thought. But what distinguishes his podcast from others that investigate our world, ...
Of all my millennial idiosyncrasies, the most think piece worthy is undoubtedly my penchant for watching TV alone, but not really alone.
Writer’s note: While we have tried to keep this review as spoiler free as possible, if you’re determined to stay pure, we suggest that you get caught up with seasons one through three of “House of Cards” (2013 - present) before reading this review.Netflix’s flagship original series, the political ...
Put it this way — if Starbucks decided that it was going to discontinue its longstanding practice of playing mellow, atmospheric indie music and start screening a TV show instead, that show would look a lot like “Flaked" (2016). Netflix’s most recent release has all the hallmarks of warm ...
“This drastic, clean-cut deprivation and our complete ignorance of what the future held in store had taken us unawares; we were unable to react against the mute appeal of presences, still so near and already so far, which haunted us daylong." — Albert Camus, “The Plague”Albert Camus’ ...
I get a lot of people who hear my a cappella group perform for the first time asking me how I take a song people grew up singing and convert it into something that echoes the original, but at the same time sounds completely different.There’s nothing glamorous or exciting about the actual arranging ...
