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Bill Cosby sued over alleged assault of 15-year-old

The comedy world has been turned on its head of late with accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around industry legend, Bill Cosby. On Tuesday, the story of the first lawsuit to be filed as a result of recent allegations (a 2005 case was settled out of court) against Cosby broke on major news outlets. ...


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Lila Ramani: The good, the bad and the blue

A young Lila Ramani sat in her high chair bobbing her head back and forth in between bites of Cheerios to the Spanish music her parents put on the stereo. After a checkup with the family pediatrician it was determined Ramani had a mild case of boogie fever, and was prescribed a guitar to treat the ...


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Arts

What’s up this weekend

Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Fortune, Virtue and Love: An Evening of Opera Scenes: Join the Tufts Opera Ensemble for a night of music and drama as they perform works of opera and musical theater. Scenes to be performed include those from works such as "Dido and Aeneas" ...


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HBO brings literature to the small screen with 'Olive Kitteridge'

With fall miniseries “Olive Kitteridge,” HBO is proving its ability to successfully adapt long-form narrative to the small screen. The new drama, based on Elizabeth Strout’s 2008 collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning short stories, is a triumph in artful storytelling. Character studies, traditionally ...





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Loscil’s 'Sea Island' creates lush landscapes of sound

The first track on Loscil’s newest album “Sea Island,” released late last month, isn’t just an exercise in sonic balance -- it’s an exercise in physical balance as well. Loscil, the solo project of Scott Morgan, relies as much on the computer-generated sounds it features as on the musical introspection inherent in Morgan’s compilation. The album begins with a two-note exchange on “Ahull," played out as though it is being delivered through alternating speakers -- the repeated note ricochets back and forth for the first minute before being joined by a series of other notes, then chimes and, finally, additional instrumentation.


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'Imitation Game' cracks code of good filmmaking

Only about six months after the first computer supposedly passed the Turing test -- Alan Turing’s test for determining whether a machine can be said to "think" -- “The Imitation Game” (2014) is here to shed light on the unsung champion of World War II and the man who laid much of the groundwork for modern computer science. Despite a heavy-handed and somewhat confusing script, adapted from Andrew Hodges' biography, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” (1983), the film is an enjoyably informative and beautifully acted portrait of Turing’s complex contribution to WWII.



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'State of Affairs' a strange new political drama

Katherine Heigl, the actress formerly known as Izzie Stevens, has made her return to television. NBC’s newest drama, “State of Affairs,” which premiered on Nov. 17, stars Heigl as the series’ main character, Charleston (Charlie) Tucker.Charlie and her coworkers at the Central Intelligence Agency ...



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Arts

'She Loves Me' transports audience into world of the parfumerie

This weekend, Torn Ticket II gave three performances of “She Loves Me,” directed by senior Allison Benko, with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1963, is an adaptation of the play, "Parfumerie"(1937) by Miklos Laszlo, which formed ...




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RL Grime's 'VOID' straddles genres and takes them for a ride

Henry Steinway began releasing smash club hits under the name Clockwork, producing remixes of songs by the big dogs of the EDM scene like Avicii. He found some success under the Clockwork moniker, but his connection to the work he produced sometimes seemed tenuous. He now seeks to establish himself ...


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Back-alley bookstores

My favorite place to spend time is a bookstore. Some true book snobs will tell you Barnes & Noble is not an acceptable book buying experience, but for me, just being surrounded by books is wonderful. Libraries have the same effect, but only in bookstores do I see significant damage to my wallet ...




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One Direction plateaus on fourth studio album 'FOUR'

The fourth studio album from the overnight boy-band wonder One Direction, “FOUR,” will undoubtedly be met with laughter in “sophisticated” musical circles. Released on Nov. 17, the band's most recent attempt will just as certainly be met with adulation and excitement among its slew of adolescent ...


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Taylor Swift versus Spotify: is streaming the future?

You probably heard -- perhaps while trying to stream “1989,” Taylor Swift’s new album, released on Oct. 27  -- that Swift herself removed all her music from Spotify earlier this month. And you were probably pretty bummed that you actually had to (God forbid!) buy the album just to avoid becoming ...