Tufts University will surely miss the energy of senior psychology major Julia Stein when she makes her way into the real world this May. But Stein isn’t getting sentimental quite yet. In an email interview with the Daily, she not so solemnly reminisced about her time dabbling in various artistic ...
Recently, '90s grunge giants Nirvana have been placed, once again, at the forefront of news media world-wide. Though it’s been 21 years since Kurt Cobain tragically committed suicide, hordes of fans old and new still ache to know every minute detail about the late frontman. The multitude of conspiracy ...
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Reverb is a weekly collaborative music review within the Arts section that explores new albums and covers new artists, whether indie or mainstream. Our goal is to explore and examine everything that modern music has to offer and to educate anyone who cares.
Finals got you down? Fear not, because Kesha is coming on Saturday to save us all from the doom and gloom. She is our saviour. She is the light at the end of the tunnel. She is the hero we need AND the hero we deserve. We must celebrate this joyous occasion of the coming of the great "Warrior" ...
“S-O-CEEEEEEEEEEE!” A familiar call you might hear on campus year-round is sure to be heard even more often this week as Spirit of Color (SOC) puts on their semester show entitled “We Mean Business.” The show -- scheduled for Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24 -- always garners attention ...
Reverb is a weekly collaborative music review within the Arts section that explores new albums and covers new artists, whether indie or mainstream. Our goal is to explore and examine everything that modern music has to offer and to educate anyone who cares.
Contemporary art has evolved far beyond the classical European construct. Rather than adopting linear narratives, art has become tangential. The process of creation is often emphasized more so than creation itself. Artistic trends have become more daring as society gradually expands its conception of ...
Down at the bottom of the hill and just one door over from the shrine of late-night food and regrets, also known as Helen’s, is Rose’s Chinese Restaurant. For all intents and purposes, the inside is a carbon copy of Helen’s with an open kitchen in the back and tables arranged in columns in the ...
“Game of Thrones” (2011-present) returned on April 12 with an episode which largely emphasized exposition over action. The fifth season premiere seemed to serve mainly as a prologue for upcoming activity; the episode was aptly titled “The Wars to Come,” and focused more on building drama than ...
The second episode of season five of “Game of Thrones” (2011-present) entitled “The House of Black and White,” was more enjoyable than the first. It had some interesting twists, not to mention a huge shocker: no nudity whatsoever. Take note, HBO: Shows can be good without gratuitous female objectification. ...
“Don’t mow the bluets!” my dad always cautions me before I mow the backyard, a necessary and frequent summer task for me. The grass grows swiftly under the hot summer sun, requiring at least weekly trimming. But it is not only grass that flourishes in my backyard: Interspersed among the lush ...
On Friday, April 17, the Student Research Symposium showcased six students' research works-in-progress, representing a broad range of subjects in the arts. The symposium was held as a part of the first-ever Spring Festival for the Arts@Tufts.Professor of Music Joseph Auner explained that a goal ...
Five minutes north of Kendall Square lies a bevy of outstanding restaurants. One of the most notable of these is West Bridge, a three year-old establishment. Like many forward-thinking restaurants, it’s hard to classify West Bridge's specialty as one specific type of cuisine. If one absolutely ...
It would be an understatement to say that the entertainment industry is currently preoccupied with superhero stories. Enamored might be more appropriate, and currently, the industry's infatuation has led to an emphasis on the more grandiose aspects of comic adaptations. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” ...
On the afternoon of Sunday April 12, Distler Auditorium overflowed with hundreds of people, all gathered to watch a performance of Mozart’s famous “Requiem Mass in D minor” (1791). The piece, an eight-part funeral mass that Mozart composed in 1791, and which was left unfinished upon his death, ...
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Few playwrights have had their works adapted so extremely, variously and frequently as William Shakespeare has. It is far less common, however, for the interpretation of one of his characters to deviate from the norm. Yet, with the discovery, exhumation and reinterment of the titular character of “Richard ...
The band Young Fathers challenges the restraints of genre definition. On its latest album, “White Men Are Black Men Too,” released April 6, the Edinburgh-based trio switches from blues to funk to soul to R&B to hip-hop to trip-hop to rap to rock so quickly that the multidimensionality should be dizzying. The combination is, in fact, intoxicating. To categorize Young Fathers into one musical genre is to not give their work the full sweeping arc of praise that it merits. To allocate their lyrics into the specifications of either realms of political or personal, is to deny their full scope. The lyrics take personal tales and magnify them, at times making uncomfortably personal tales into digestible, danceable tracks. The combination should not be a shock. The band’s label, Big Dada recordings, reps artists known for their propensities to blur the lines between danceability and narrative, most notably Run the Jewels. But while RTJ’s stunning self-titled LP "Run the Jewels 2," released October 2014 last year, addressed race with an unyielding hard-hitting powerhouse collection of tracks, Young Fathers takes a subtler swipe at handling the conversation. Lyrics are hidden under trumpet solos, hiding in plain sight on songs that rattle on with a danceable pop undercurrent of potential Top 40 popularity.
