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 ...
“Blank Space,” Taylor Swift’s new single and accompanying music video, which debuted on Nov. 10, and has already garnered over 15 million views on YouTube, indicates a clear departure from the artist's classic “good girl” persona. “You look like my next mistake,” she sings. Yup, Taylor ...
Ryan Hemsworth's latest release is entitled "Alone for the First Time.” Yet on this album he's certainly not alone, and it's definitely not his first release. Hemsworth has hand-picked independent artists, chosen through his Secret Songs record club -- a community of like-minded ...
With its release of “Big Hero 6,” an adaptation of the little-known Marvel comic by the same name, Disney has officially jumped on the superhero bandwagon. Though one might think people have had their fill of origin stories and are just about sick of watching troupes of fighting heroes in wacky ...
In this day and age, pop culture is distributed to the masses through an overwhelming digital network. Through YouTube videos, Instagram posts, Twitter updates and even Tumblr interactions (see Taylor Swift’s foray into that insular world), artists, companies and celebrities are able to communicate ...
Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are today's go-to sources for unconventional, original media available for online streaming, but AOL On's series, "city.ballet." is a great reminder that these three sites don't have a monopoly on compelling internet television.
For a film about space, "Interstellar’s" long first act has a very earthly setting: an arid, generically midwestern, desert-like farm. Upon entering the film, viewers find themselves in a near-future reality where an unnamed blight has destroyed most crops, and in which humanity has retreated to a mostly agrarian society. Here, former astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a disgruntled but responsible farmer whose daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy, Jessica Chastain) ages considerably between Cooper's space missions. Cooper's family stumbles upon hints of a secret NASA mission to travel through a wormhole to discover potentially habitable alien planets. Cooper’s former mentor, Professor Brand (Michael Caine), enlists him on the mission along with Brand's own daughter (Anne Hathaway). From there "Interstellar" -- which was released on Nov. 5 -- launches into a wild adventure across worlds and time.
Amy Poehler’s new book, “Yes Please,” is refreshingly honest, raw, hilarious and even inspirational. Hitting shelves on Oct. 28,“Yes Please” is not a traditional memoir, but rather a hodge-podge collection of personal essays, stories about her career and the people with whom she has worked and snippets of life advice. While the pages are sleek and shiny, stuffed with photographs from Poehler's own life, the messages she gives the reader are genuine and down-to-earth. In “Yes Please” Poehler reminds both fans and critics that she’s just a middle-class Boston -- OK, technically Newton -- girl who worked very hard for many years and used her strengths to succeed. In doing so, the book attempts to convince readers that Poehler is just an ordinary woman. But while her humanity and her struggles are highlighted, the pithy and creative ways with which Poehler talks about adversity are nothing short of extraordinary.
