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 ...
The third season of ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” (2013 - present) returned last week on the tail of its strongest episodes and a four-month winter hiatus. These factors combined to place a great deal of pressure on the mid-season premiere, and the show neither caved under, nor fully ...
Epic battles, a classic apocalyptic plot and self-sacrificing romances — “Gods of Egypt” contains all the markings of a crowd-pleasing film. The movie follows the journey of a young thief named Bek (Brenton Thwaites), who, by the most unfortunate of circumstances, ends up helping the god Horus ...
“Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide,” an October 2015 first-person cooperative hack-and-slash title by the independent Swedish developer Fatshark, was something of a surprise critical darling upon release (we at the Daily adored the beta). The game, which pits four players against hordes of ratmen ...
Encountering F. Scott Fitzgerald is inevitable in the American educational system, usually in the form of "The Great Gatsby" (1925) in sophomore or junior year of high school, whichever has been designated as the year to steadily make one's way through American literature. The class discusses ...
“The Voice” (2011 - present) is back and better than ever! Actually, it’s mostly the same. But even with two seasons a year and enough chair spinning that it’s a miracle coaches have never vomited right onto the “I want you” button, the new talent keeps it fresh.This season’s coaches ...
In 2002, Kim Barker was a television journalist in New York, covering unremarkable stories and living a monotonous life. When she was offered the chance to cover the war in Afghanistan, she jumped at the opportunity and soon found herself in over her head as a foreign correspondent in a country she ...
