If you’re looking for mystery, intrigue and confusing plot-based drama, this is your show! "Gossip Girl" (2007-2012), the teen drama series, is based on a book series, also called “Gossip Girl” (2002-2011), written by Cecily Von Ziegesar. The show follows the “scandalous lives of Manhattan’s ...
Leave it to a Tufts alum to create a quirky and creative food podcast. Dan Pashman (A '99), the creator of "The Sporkful" (2013-present) graduated from Tufts during a time when podcasts didn't even exist. Tonight, Pashman will host a live recording in Cohen Auditorium -- the podcast's ...
One surprise of "Steve Jobs," released on Oct. 9, is how much it -- and its enigmatic subject, portrayed brilliantly by an often detestable Michael Fassbender -- dwells on the past. This is Steve Jobs, after all, a man who arguably had more of a hand in shaping "the future" than ...
Pooja: This week, I am going to indulge in some grandmother-style musings. Rebecca and I are pretty sure that we are turning into old people -- while she sits at home watching "Longmire" (2012-present), I watch youths from a distance and criticize their every move. These past few months, I ...
“Reign” (2013-present) returned for its third season last Friday, satisfying its patiently waiting fans. The series documents the lives of power couple Mary Queen of Scots (Adelaide Kane) and France's King Francis (Toby Regbo), who are striving to maintain their crowns. The word “documents” ...
"Star Wars: Battlefront" -- from Swedish video game developer DICE -- as experienced in the recent open beta (the official release date is in November), is a massive, gleaming chunk of pyrite in the gold mine of "Star Wars" games from the past decade -- not because it's a bad ...
As a Tufts Writing Fellow, I recently met with a Chinese student to discuss her paper for a social science class. I was struck by the language she had used, which was more engaging than what I am used to seeing in academic papers, cushioned with metaphors and humor. It took me a couple reads to realize ...
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 ...
