Sophomore Ben Averill started playing trumpet in the fifth grade and hasn’t stopped since. A music minor with experience in Jazz Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and a member of Tufts’ homegrown band, Shark Saddle, Averill has made music a central focus of his time at Tufts. On top of all of that he ...
It begins with an advisory: “This video contains explicit language.” At first, it seems likeT-Pain on NPR’s Tiny Desk should be funny. It sounds like a blast. Then he appears, and it's not the T-Pain fans are used to -- the one who wrote a song about falling deeply in love with an exotic ...
In 2010, Chaz Bundick, known to many as the indie-pop, chillwave, nu-disco (or almost any other genre out there) artist Toro Y Moi, began releasing music under a second moniker: Les Sins.Under this new name, Bundick has produced more dance-worthy music, characterized by strong bass. The three EPs released ...
Covering any work of rock genius is a pretty huge feat to take on, especially when that work is the Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) -- an album hailed for its influence in the music industry and the psychedelic era, the soundtrack to the "summer of love." You ...
Warner Bros. Studios, the owners of DC Entertainment and Marvel Studios, has had a very eventful month, releasing their planned superhero movie lineup through 2020. With an abundance of new information, one must sift through the news to analyze what's coming up next for fans of superhero film.Here ...
The premise of The CW’s new show, “Jane the Virgin,” sounds more like a daytime soap opera than a popular network’s newest dramedy. Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) finds herself accidentally artificially inseminated ... that's when all hell breaks loose.Due to her mother’s teenage pregnancy ...
There is no wrong way to celebrate Halloween in college. Some carve pumpkins (or put them on rooftops), others take trips to Salem, trick-or-treat at President Monaco’s house or attend campus parties. While art galleries are perhaps not the first places a college student thinks of while planning ...
“From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story,” a play presented by the Department of Drama and Dance, finished its final performance on Saturday, Nov. 1.The production was directed by Natalya Baldyga, an associate professor within the department,and the play was written by Melinda Lopez. ...
A jagged line of shins and shoes stretched out into the hallways of Granoff Hall, nearly blocking traffic, as eager fans of Bernadette Peters sat against the wall, waiting. Hoping to secure rush tickets to the Broadway and television star’s 8 p.m. concert, students and local community members ...
“If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket,” Lou (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) says repeatedly throughout "Nightcrawler." These words reflect both Lou's principles and those of the American dream. In fact, Lou, a keen young entrepreneur, aptly represents ...
In the era of instant gratification, serious journalism can occur on the web as well as in print. Online media is allowed informality and personality that traditional reporting lacks. First person narration is permissable online -- and so are memes -- but being boring isn’t. The desire to remain relevant ...
It's that time of year again. Time to pretend to still like dressing up in costumes and sneaking hand fulls of "bite-size" candies while you drink yourself into a healthy stupor: the best way to spend a weekend. And while Halloween is actually pretty fun, it's easy to find yourself ...
“Gi suilon!” For mere mortals, this is how one greets a friend in Sindarin Elvish. Nerdy, it's true, but language and fandom have gone hand-in-hand for at least half a century. It began with J. R. R. Tolkien, a noted philologist and arguably the best fantasy author that ever lived, who decided ...
Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Bernadette Peters in Concert: Bernadette Peters, Broadway and television star -- known for work on Broadway shows such as “Annie Get Your Gun” (1999 revival) and “Song and Dance”(1985 on Broadway) as well as the TV show “Smash” (2012 ...
Dear SWUG, How does a SWUG celebrate Halloween? -- Senior Washed Up GhostDear Senior Washed Up Ghost, To quote "Mean Girls" (2004), a.k.a. the greatest film of all time, “In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is ...
SaraMarie Bottaro balances her interests in peace and justice studies (PJS) and her multimedia work in graphic arts and bookmaking with the elegance and grace of a dancer. But, for the fifth-year School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA) dual degree student from San Diego, Calif., this should come as ...
Despite her highly problematic public persona -- ranging from virginal ingenue to femme fatale, from lighthearted (albeit disingenuous) goofball to deadly serious without a whiff of self-awareness -- Taylor Swift makes good music. Even from her earliest days in the musical world, Swift has been lauded ...
Recently, television producers seem to have dug up a drama-ratings goldmine by exposing alternative narratives of post-modern American suburbia, stories that are missing from the "Leave it to Beaver" (1957 - 1963) genre of programming. They have given us a meth-slinging chemistry teacher in ...
Marvel Studios announced yesterday the official titles of several films that will be part of its Phase Three plan for the next five years. Familiar characters such as Thor and the summer blockbuster heroes, the Guardians of the Galaxy, will make their returns in “Thor: Ragnarok,” and "Guardians ...
Free candy, scary movies, apple cider donuts, costumes … oh, the costumes ... and even pumpkin beer. Yes, believe it or not, pumpkin beer. Halloween is like a college-student’s Disneyland. But just like the real Disneyland (okay, actually, more like Epcot), all that joy comes with enormous pressure. ...
