The only thing that might be more enjoyable than actually attending college is watching the countless television shows and movies that focus on the best four years of your life. This list goes over some of my favorite fictional colleges.Greendale Community CollegeNBC’s "Community" (2009-2015) ...
Despite weeks of speculation by music industry experts, no one could have predicted that Adele’s “25,” released on Nov. 20, would, in only three days, become the fastest-selling album ever. In less than a week, Adele had managed to shatter the single-week sales record of 2.4 million, set by ...
A couple of weeks ago, I won an online contest through my synagogue for a free television show on Amazon. I was excited about it, especially because I knew it would open up my options when writing this column; however, the pickings were extremely slim. I ended up choosing the drama "Everwood" ...
Award-winning producer Dick Wolf strikes again with the third installment of his interconnected Chicago-based shows. Like its counterparts, "Chicago Med," which premiered Nov. 17, doesn't boast a well-known or experienced cast. This, coupled with fairly flat dialogue, doesn't ...
A full year after releasing an ambitious eighth studio album, the Foo Fighters are back with a new five-song EP almost out of the blue. Following the mindset of their previous album, “Sonic Highways” (2015), the new release, “Saint Cecilia,” was recorded in DIY fashion in the Hotel Saint Cecilia ...
Chick lit. Those two words instantly conjure up a whole host of associations with bright pink covers, desperately single heroines and love interests whose square jaws and rippling muscles are the most interesting things about them. I could talk for days about the problems with how this genre is characterized, ...
"Marvel's Jessica Jones," a Netflix original series based on the Marvel universe comic book character of the same name, released its full first season last week and made quite an impression. Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is the best private investigator in New York City, despite her ...
From clashing swords with the mighty undead hosts in the floating necropolis of Naxxramus to slaying dragons in the caves of Blackrock Mountain, Blizzard Entertainment’s expansions and adventures for the collectible card game "Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft" have been decidedly hit-or-miss ...
"I’ll say this for you, Katniss, you don't disappoint," says Haymitch (Woody Harrelson) to Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) near the end of the “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2,” released on Nov. 20. Unfortunately, the same could not be said about the final installment in the immensely popular ...
What if Germany and Japan had won the second World War? Based on the portrayal of just such an alternate universe, Amazon’s new show, “The Man in the High Castle" shows how an Axis victory would have wrought superficial change to the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The show, which ...
Authors have been fascinated with the end of the world since the beginning of the world, and recently there's been a veritable epidemic of dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction. The world has ended by way of zombies, epidemics, nuclear accidents, corporate takeovers and anything that even vaguely ...
When the curtain parts, men and women dressed in clothing from the late-eighties walk around quietly, staring at Claude Monet’s paintings while a piano plays slowly in the background. Monet, played by senior Ed Rosini, begins a monologue as the viewers gather around a single painting. He talks about ...
Two years of constant scandal had greatly damaged Justin Bieber's reputation and, in an industry where entire careers are built upon the ability of an artist to maintain goodwill with the public, it appeared that Bieber had long exhausted whatever favor he might have once enjoyed. After all, the ...
Someone asked me this week if NYSD was just Rebecca and me talking about our personal lives and whether that is considered an "advice" column. To this, my response was…obviously. Yes, Rebecca and I do primarily talk about ourselves, but what better way to get advice? A large part of advice ...
Senior English major Sommer Nectarhoff has published 14 novels, of roughly 200 pages each, since May 2014. This impressive body of work speaks to an unwavering dedication to his craft (Nectarhoff often writes for 12 hours a day when not in school), but unlike many aspiring writers, Nectarhoff discovered ...
As we slowly but surely approach the relief that is Thanksgiving break, it's time for those of us who plan on feasting, to pick and choose the dishes in which to indulge. It's impossible to eat everything -- though you may want to -- so you might have to be selective. To help with this difficult ...
The first thing that struck me about my college campus in Beijing was the mix of concrete and lush gardens, which somehow looked out-of-place in the urban atmosphere. The flatness, too, was unfamiliar -- no hikes up the hill to class. Students on motorbikes zoomed through the winding streets. Some ...
Alessia Cara, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Canada, started her music career at 13 by posting acoustic covers on YouTube. By 18, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings. Her first EP, "Four Pink Walls," released on Aug. 26, presented a fresh mix of soulful R&B tracks ...
For three days this week, Boston/Cambridge-based booking collective Illegally Blind will showcase some of the finest bands that the area has to offer. Called Boston En Masse, the mini music festival aims to bring the music community together to enjoy a variety of genres and acquaint concertgoers with ...
Growing up as an Indian-American child who loved television, I rarely saw anyone who looked like me on the small screen. At the time, I never thought of it as an issue, and relating to the mostly African-American or Caucasian characters in the shows I watched was not an extremely difficult ...
