One of Tufts' two sketch comedy groups, The Institute Sketch Comedy (The Institute), performed their first show of the semester, "Joaquin on Sunshine," this past Friday in front of a full house in Braker 001.Currently headed by seniors Elliot Cobb and Elaine Bledsoe, as well as Jehan ...
The weekend is almost here! Here are some cool events on and around the Tufts campus that could give you a much-needed study break. Maybe bring your parents along:Screening of "Steve Jobs:" The Tufts Film series is sponsoring an advanced screening of "Steve Jobs," starring Michael ...
With all of the dancing junior Marian Woznica does, one would think she has something like Restless Leg Syndrome. On her Tufts application, she wrote that her first step was, in fact, a dance step. Her essay examined how dance breaks down barriers between people, a phenomenon with which Woznica had ...
If you're one of the tech-savvy folks who have been keeping up with the latest trends in social media, you've probably heard of Cymbal, an up-and-coming music discovery app created by former Tufts students Gabriel Jacobs (A'15), Amadou Crookes (A'15) and Mario Gomez-Hall (A'15). ...
Almost exactly 15 years ago, a beloved TV show premiered its first episode. Even though "Gilmore Girls" 92001-2007) has been off the air for several years, its presence on Netflix -- as well as on cable, thanks to ABC Family reruns -- has made it easy for the series to constantly gain ...
Ryan Murphy, the creator of "American Horror Story" (2011 - present), has done it. He has somehow made the fifth season premiere of the popular FX horror anthology the creepiest one yet. This season is based at the Hotel Cortez, a fairly nice-looking hotel that gradually begins to unsettle ...
If you are Aubrey Drake Graham, it really is a great time to be alive. The Toronto rapper’s recently released surprise collaboration album with rapper Future, “What A Time To Be Alive," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart.It was Drake’s second No. 1 album in 2015, following the success ...
A new art exhibition -- “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” -- opened this week at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. The new collection showcases art from Black Mountain College, a small liberal arts school founded in 1933 in Black Mountain, N.C. The school’s ...
Every once in a while, a new album in the otherwise extremely underappreciated folk-rock genre will come along and earn 15 seconds of fame rivaling the visibility of mainstream pop music. Often, these albums burn bright and fast, leaving the scene just as quickly as they arrived and are totally forgotten.Matt ...
“The Martian,” Ridley Scott’s new space adventure starring Matt Damon as botanist Mark Watney, is not what everyone thought it would be. Trailers foretold a pulse accelerating thriller fueled by disasters on an alien frontier -- Mars, humanity’s next stepping stone. The movie has plenty of ...
After being mentioned in the Oct. 9 installment of the arts column "New York Style Deli," “The Savage Lovecast” seemed in need of further examination. For the uninitiated, "The Savage Lovecast" is a podcast hosted by national media personality and syndicated advice columnist ...
This week, I binge-watched “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2015-present). First of all, can I say, this is such a good show! Tina Fey and Robert Carlock created the sitcom, which stars Ellie Kemper, who you probably know as Erin on "The Office" (2005-2013). Unfortunately, the first season, ...
Historical fiction tends to be set in Western countries and, even then, it tends to cluster around certain places and certain time periods: Great Britain during the Tudor era, France during either the decadence of the Bourbons or the downfall of the French Revolution, the World Wars in all their various ...
"Freeheld," starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page, is a social drama that touches upon an important issue. Sadly, that is all that can be said about the film. Based on the true story of New Jersey detective Laurel Hester (Moore), the movie, released Oct. 2, centers on terminally ill Hester’s ...
In all 133 episodes and six seasons of The CW's "The Vampire Diaries" (2009 - present), the seventh season premiere was the first one that didn't star Nina Dobrev in her leading role as Elena Gilbert.Elena was the on-again, off-again love interest of brother-vampires Damon (Ian Somerhalder) ...
Earlier this year, a missing person poster depicting a 49-year-old African American woman with brown hair and brown eyes went viral on Twitter.The missing person in question? None other than pop icon Janet Jackson, or Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.https://twitter.com/MyVelvetRope/status/588463964389974017/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe ...
Downtown Malden, just a short way northeast of campus, is going through something of a revitalization, but the newest arrival in the district is far from what one might expect to find in a city planner’s toolkit. This addition, Boda Borg, is a reality gaming experience that challenges participants ...
Junior Rachel Sheldon may be double majoring in history and psychology, but outside of class, much of her time is devoted to the arts. She has been a member of Pen, Paint & Pretzels (3Ps) -- Tufts’ umbrella theater organization -- and Torn Ticket II since her first year at Tufts. Sheldon started ...
This is how to make your weekend artsy and fun:Light the Night with DTD: The brothers of DTD will be joining the Boston Light the Night Walk to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Having contributed the most of any Boston-area college group for the past three years, DTD’s goal this ...
Anyone who has seen Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" (1990) knows exactly what to expect when they sit down to watch a gangster film. The main character will be relatable, funny and likable one moment and cold-hearted and murderous the next. Killings will be abrupt, even casual, and paired ...
