Tufts is an environment that could foster a culture of artistic production and collaboration when it comes to making films. However, that hasn't been the case -- up until now. In a response to increased student interest, the Experimental College will begin to offer a film major starting next ...
Junior Dorian Pistilli is quite the interlocutor. With a quick wit coupled with a surprisingly sweet demeanor, Pistilli proves himself enigmatic -- and not just in conversation. As a computer science major and music minor, Pistilli is straddling two profoundly different worlds with skill. Though music ...
Announced by the old-fashioned ding of a gleaming brass elevator, the holiday season is here -- or, at least, a music video preview of it. On Monday, Idina Menzel -- of “Glee” (2009 - present) and “Frozen” (2013) fame -- uploaded her rendition of “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” to her YouTube ...
Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Dinner and a Movie presents "Maleficent" (2014): Come to the Women’s Center to discuss gender roles and tropes in film and literature in a modern context. Discussion will be led by Shannon Weber, sociology and women’s, gender and ...
We at the Tufts Daily Arts department are always shocked to find out that people read our content! Last week, our Top Ten included a delicate slight against hurdling as a sport. A few Tufts hurdlers had many things to say about this. Turns out that hurdling is a real thing -- who knew?! So, in order ...
"The Children’s Hour," a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman, opened at the Balch Arena Theater at Tufts this weekend. The show is set largely at a fictional boarding school run by two young women and close friends, Karen Wright (Grace Whittom) and Martha Dobie (Kristin Reeves), who ...
Woody Harrelson appeared on Saturday Night Live (SNL) on Nov. 15 as a guest host, reminding audiences that this weekend marks, “almost to the day,” the 25th anniversary of his first time hosting the show in 1989, a significant moment in his career to be sure. According to Rolling Stone, Harrelson’s ...
TV on the Radio’s fifth studio album “Seeds” should have been a colossal letdown. It’s been eight years since the jangling, alt-synth rockers shook their punk Brooklyn stomping ground with 2006’s critical darling “Return to Cookie Mountain,” and three slow years since they released anything ...
Aaron Sorkin -- famed creator of “Sports Night” (1998), “The West Wing” (1999-2006) and, more recently, “The Newsroom” (2012-present) -- is not known for his subtlety. Indeed, “The Newsroom,” which entered its third and final season on Nov. 9, has been criticized for its flashy portrayal ...
In a powerful scene from the second act of "Rosewater," where the film’s protagonist, from within his solitary confinement cell, imagines a Leonard Cohen song and finds himself dancing. At this point, he has been imprisoned for months and interrogated relentlessly for a confession. He is ...
It seems that this year’s Academy Award picks will be full of geniuses. Stephen Hawking's story, “The Theory of Everything,” released on Nov. 7, will join ranks with “The Imitation Game” (2014), a thriller about the life of mathematician Alan Turing, in the running for Oscar success. Unfortunately ...
For a show supposedly featuring intimate discussions with famous comedians, host Jerry Seinfeld spends an awful lot of time talking only about the cars he drives on "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" (2012 - present). Granted, the web series literally follows Seinfeld as he picks up comedians in various automobiles and takes them for coffee to ask them questions ranging from, “What was the first bit you did on stage?” to “What was an early time you got in trouble?” But the viewer has to wonder, is this “Top Gear” (2002 - present) or a web talk show with comedians as the sole guests? Perhaps, most confusingly, it is a little bit of both.
Another Netflix original is set to join the ranks of critically acclaimed and ravenously consumed series such as “Orange Is the New Black” (2013 - present), “House of Cards” (2013 - present) and “BoJack Horseman” (2014 - present). The company will adapt the delightfully morbid and macabre ...
Known for her brash social media presence and devil-may-care attitude, Azealia Banks has spent the past three years fostering a bizarre persona in the hip-hop scene, all the while garnering a serious cult following. Amid nasty record deal feuds and fearsome Twitter battles, Banks has finally managed ...
Indie-pop band Gentleman Hall has gone from playing at police-busted MIT frat parties to winning a VMA and rocking Boston Calling. This Saturday, Nov. 15, they will play at Tufts' annual fall concert, Cage Rage, sponsored by Concert Board. Gentlemen Hall will appear alongside musical acts MS MR ...
“Serial” (2014 - present), a spinoff podcast of "This American Life" (1995 - present) hosted by Sarah Koenig and produced by Julie Snyder, breathes life into a neglected medium of storytelling, allowing its audience to fall back in love with the radio in a new way. "Serial" ...
Clad in sweatpants and sporting messy buns, Sarabande dancers made their way down Talbot Avenue this week, filling the studios of Jackson Dance Lab with the distinctive high-energy bustling that can only be attributed to days leading up to a show. Or, as it is affectionately named, "Hell Week." Since ...
We at the Daily Arts department understand how important good online distractions are. Buzzfeed, the online "publication" known for its simple and oftentimes bizarre quizzes, pseudo-articles and news lists, has been drawing critics for years. Buzzfeed manages to produce insane amounts of ...
Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Tufts Arts Career Night: Interested in a career in the arts? Join the Tufts Art History Society for a presentation with an informational discussion panel. Professionals in the arts world who live in Boston will discuss their work, offer advice ...
Junior Soubhik Barari is the modern renaissance man -- a bad boy in a band who specializes in computer science and romance. He is redefining what it means to be in a band in college, managing his time well so that neither work nor play is sacrificed; the only victim is sleep.Barari came to Tufts a ...
