Over winter break, Tufts acquired the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), an official full adoption of the five-year combined degree program that awards students with two degrees — a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts or Science. Lesser known is the five-year dual degree program ...
Did Kendrick Lamar have anything left to prove? Fresh off a year that included the release of his widely acclaimed third album "To Pimp a Butterfly," a few virtuosic live performances that set the Twittersphere ablaze and his sweep at the Grammy’s, the answer seemed to be a resounding "no." With ...
It’s hard not to notice the gaping Jon Stewart-sized hole in this year's election coverage. With every millennial's favorite political comedian off the air and Trevor Noah not quite able to fill Stewart’s shoes on “The Daily Show” (1996-present), Gen Y-ers are left wondering what late-night ...
Just three weeks following the release of its debut LP "Human Ceremony" and almost exactly a year since its last visit, Brooklyn’s Sunflower Bean returned to The Middle East Club Upstairs in Cambridge for a nearly sold-out show on Saturday, Feb. 27. "Human Ceremony" is the latest ...
Some days, it feels like I've acquired a new hobby without even knowing it: trying to get the people around me to read more female writers, whether they're publishing their first novel this year or lived over 200 years ago. Whenever I'm enthusiastically composing yet another list for a ...
When the familiar refrain about the milkman and the paperboy sounds during the opening moments of Netflix's "Fuller House," true fans of "Full House" (1987-1995) will immediately find themselves transported back to watching ABC Family, now (unfortunately) known at Freeform, during ...
Ask an American what Turkish food is, and their answer will probably be kebab or baklava. Although kebab and baklava are popular (and delicious) examples of Turkish cuisine, it is criminal to define Turkish food by one region, which is southern Turkey in this case. After all, Turkey is an amalgam of ...
As with any art form, one of the primary goals is emotional manipulation. Manipulation is a dirty word that suggests an imbalanced power dynamic, but that’s what artists are trying to do — they alter your mind from its current state to a new one. Perhaps looking at a work by Picasso from 1904 gives ...
Judd Apatow, icon of the ‘bromantic comedy,' has joined creative forces with Lesley Arfin and Paul Rust to tackle the complexity of modern dating in a new Netflix original series, "Love" (2016 - present). The series, which is akin to the Aziz Ansari comedy "Master of None" ...
In the middle of Inman Square an orange billboard welcomes passers-by to enter Punjabi Dhaba, Boston’s very own Indian roadside café. People sit on one of four small tables on the first floor and sip hot chai to keep warm while they wait for their take-out - the night is cold and the heating seems ...
Adam Hildebrand is a junior from Vancouver who sat down to talk about the difference between Canadian and East Coast fashion, Christian Thompson and the difficulty of finding clothing when you’re 6 ft. 7 in. Parker: Who is your fashion inspiration?I wouldn’t say I have one fashion inspiration. I ...
In 2007, Vanity Fair published a piece called “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” in which the author, Christopher Hitchens, casually and blatantly throws out sexist generalizations as he meditates on women and their capacity to be funny. Hitchens unabashedly asserts that women are “backward in generating” ...
The Audre Lorde Traveling Exhibit opened last Thursday, Feb. 25 at the LGBT Center. The exhibit has returned to Boston for its final showcase, where it was originally displayed as a part of the 1990 “I Am Your Sister” conference honoring Audre Lorde — the author, poet, activist and woman. The exhibit will remain open at the LGBT Center through April.
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.Edgar shut the kitchen door, watching the ceiling intently as if he could see Alicia walking the floor above. Cecilia watched, bemused, from the table.“We only have a moment, but there’s something I must tell you. I’ve told your ...
With the controversy over the lack of black Academy Award nominees reaching a fever pitch in the past couple of weeks, Chris Rock's host was an unknown quantity. Expectations for his opening monologue, which promised to be a brutal, unsparing take on the pressing #OscarsSoWhite issue, were running ...
Sometimes, TV can be a bit like pizza.Bear with me here. Everyone likes it. But, really, have you ever met anyone who likes exactly what you like? For exactly the same reasons? No, which gives rise to one mutually applicable cardinal rule: don’t yuck someone else’s yum.This week, I’m letting you ...
Once controversial, “Girls” (2012 - present) has now become a veteran show that is mostly forgotten by mainstream audiences. After surviving diversity criticisms, anti-feminist prejudice and hysteria towards Lena Dunham after the release of her book, the show is not garnering the attention it received ...
Back in 2013, British pop band The 1975 burst on to the music scene with its debut self-titled album. The record, to say the least, polarized critics leaving some to appreciate the group’s pop proclivities and others to denounce them as just another pompous boy band. Failing to garner true critical ...
Making a reader cry is often surprisingly easy. Combine a pair of star-crossed lovers, make sure that at least one of them has an incurable and fatal disease, add in a few poignant speeches that people can put on posters and tattoos, stack misfortune on top of misfortune and watch the tears flow (and ...
Davis Square is chock-full of fantastic places to eat, and the dining scene is dynamic, with new establishments popping up in storefronts around the area fairly regularly. Long-established Johnny D’s is singing its swan song, Meju is now well past its first year and seems perennially packed and Yumi ...
