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 ...
Minari Karunatilake is a senior at Tufts who sat down to talk about London street style, her new job as a stylist for Club Monaco and her decision to go into fashion. Parker Selman (PS): How would you describe your personal style?Minari Karunatilake (MK): It’s definitely changed a lot since I got ...
Now in its 32nd year, the International Club’s Parade of Nations has become a staple here at Tufts. Founded as a platform to showcase Tufts’ international diversity, the Parade has become one of the biggest culture shows on campus. With over 400 tickets sold, this is the first time in recent ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.The land behind her grandfather’s house might have been a barnyard once, if with imagination one reconstructed the stone walls and weeded the garden. Cecilia had come outside to call Ian once she could be sure he would be at work and ...
Writer's note: spoilers for Season four of "House of Cards" (2013-present) to follow.No seasoned political observer could have foreseen one of the wildest moments of this presidential election season so far. But a handful of TV writers did. Several days after Donald Trump refused to disavow ...
Club Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s black box-cum-club space, hosts an eclectic range of shows that often redefine visitors’ expectations of theater performances — this is not the place for stodgy, conformist productions. A recurring element in the club’s revolving arsenal is “The ...
Writer's note: massive "The 100" spoilers ahead. Plan to start? A couple weeks behind? Open this in a new tab and come back to me after 3.07.You guys, I’m in mourning. This week, I lost someone who spent Thursday nights on my screen and the rest of the week in my heart — and I’m ...
On March 6, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) debuted #techstyle, an innovative fashion and technology exhibition featuring pieces by international designers including Iris Van Herpen, Viktor & Rolf, Alexander McQueen and Mary Katrantzou. The exhibition, which will run until July 10, focuses ...
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” ...
