The North End, while a classic location for those looking to attend a street festival or go on a date, can be intimidating with its seemingly endless options for Italian food. From “Panza” to “Mare” to “Tresca,” it’s easy to see how the names of the restaurants in Boston’s famous ...
For citizens of our busy and increasingly urbanized 21st century world, the bucolic and rural imagery of Robert Frost’s poetry may sometimes seem dated and irrelevant to the issues of our “modern” era. Yet I would argue that the poetry of Frost remains timeless, just as relevant today as it was ...
Forget about Yeezy season, its RiRi season. And it's about time. After releasing new albums almost annually from 2004-2012, Rihanna took a hiatus. Now, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, known by her stage name Rihanna, is doling out singles to prep for the release of her next album, set to drop this year. Unnamed ...
Last weekend’s program at the Boston Symphony used music to tell a powerful story of art, politics and fear.The concert opened with an excerpt from the Shostakovich opera "LadyMacbeth of the Mtsensk District." Several years after its opening in 1934, Joseph Stalin saw the piece and was ...
“Wolf Hall” (2015), the BBC's six part television adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novels “Wolf Hall”(2009) and “Bringing up the Bodies”(2012), premiered as part of PBS's Masterpiece series on April 5. “Wolf Hall” follows Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance), ...
“Game of Thrones” (2011-present) fans, the wait is finally over. Season 5 returned on April 12 with the episode “The Wars to Come.” It was a dark hour, but the show covered a lot of ground. To recap, the Daily Arts section is bringing you the best and the worst of the premiere. Warning: For ...
I love books that are written so beautifully it's like they're straight out of a fantasy. Even mediocre story lines can be made enjoyable when the writing effortlessly flows from page to page. It is special to find books that engage readers with their characters through meticulously constructed ...
There are two dominant schools of burrito lovers at Tufts: those who prefer the smaller, more traditional style of Anna's burritos and those who prefer the fresh, hefty wraps of Chipotle. Though both these chains put up a fair fight, venture a little further from Davis Square and you’ll find ...
In the glory days of pop-punk, Hot Topic-clad, angst-ridden teens would bob their heads to Blink-182, layer on too many rings of black eyeliner and complain about their parents. Now, those teens are in college with no music to satiate their desire to stir up their rebellious days and make them feel like they should sneak out and cause trouble. With Fall Out Boy going mainstream and the days of Cute is What We Aim For and Jimmy Eat World long behind us, it may seem that a modern punk princess has nothing to listen to that combines both the self-aware snarky social commentary of punk, the infectious dance hooks of pop and the power chordage and wailing vocals of emo.
Even if you’re not a part of the tribe, chances are you have friends who have stopped eating all things delicious (aka any food with grain that has leavened aka BREAD) for that time of the year known as Pesach. We can skip the Hebrew school stories because you can Google why chametz is chazerei (no good). What you do need to know is how to avoid breaking Passover. Or maybe just how to help your Jewish friends through this difficult, bread-free, dark part of their lives.
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For sophomore economics major and communications and media studies minor Mika Sanger, every day offers a new artistic opportunity. In an email interview with the Daily, the Los Angeles native discussed her artistic accomplishments so far at Tufts and the goals she wants to achieve before graduation.
Singer and actress Hilary Duff was a familiar face in the entertainment world of the early 2000s, both for her hit Disney Channel series “Lizzie McGuire” (2001-2004) and her successful career as a pop musician. In recent years, though, she hasn’t often been in the spotlight, only making sporadic ...
It’s no secret that despite its proximity to New York, Boston is host to a “bagel drought” of sorts. Sure, there’s Einstein Bros. Bagels, or whatever your local diner decides to take out of the freezer that morning, but real, delicious bagels are few and far between. Mary Ting Hyatt set out ...
Starting in May, the Slater Concourse Gallery in the Tufts University Art Gallery, which is housed in the Aidekman Arts Center, will be featuring a distinctly unique exhibition. Curated by senior Grace Hoyt, the exhibition is entitled “Documenting American Ethos in the 1930s: Photographs by Walker Evans and Arthur Rothstein.” The two 40-foot-tall walls of the gallery will be lined with Depression-era photographs provided by the Tufts University Permanent Art Collection. Hoyt, who is majoring in art history with a minor in mass communications and media studies, applied her passion for art, history and photography in choosing which pieces will be presented. Her preparation and installation of this exhibit will serve as her Senior Independent Project.
George Lewis Jr. has a lot to hang his hat on. Twin Shadow, his stage persona, has maintained a strong presence in the indie pop scene for the past five years. "Forget" (2010), his debut album, introduced listeners to his unique booming voice, one infused with a confidence and masculinity ...
The past few years have been kind to Andy Grammer: after riding sugary pop singles like “Keep Your Head Up”(2011), “Fine By Me”(2011) and this winter’s “Honey I’m Good”(2014) to the top of the Billboard charts, the singer-songwriter-producer is selling out headline tours around the country.Before playing at House of Blues in Boston on March 19 as part of his tour, alongside fellow headliner Alex & Sierra, Grammer caught up with the Daily to discuss honesty, the writing process and his roots as a street performer.
Courtney Barnett’s “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit," released March 23, starts with a story of a man who cut work to go watch the world from the top of a skyscraper. Barnett speaks from his perspective: "I'm not suicidal, just idling insignificantly / I come up here for perception and clarity / I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity." There isn’t any sting or irony to the song; it’s simply the story of a man “idling insignificantly.” These words capture the entire essence of the Australian singer-songwriter's garage rock album. It’s an album full of stories about the mundane and inconsequential. The beauty of Barnett’s work, however, is in the way she captures the ordinary -- with shades of complexity, empathy and half-humored boredom.
Growing up in rural Maine, I have spent many hours with my dad chopping and sawing firewood. Although I enjoy the work, I am also aware of the danger. One slip, and my ax might miss the chopping block, slicing through my lower leg. Or my saw might miss its groove in the wood, jump out and cut my arm ...
