Looking to make your weekend artsy? Check out these events!Sunday at Tufts Community Concert Series -- Celebrating Frank!: Come celebrate pianist Frank Glazer’s 100th birthday as he and performance faculty violist Scott Woolweaver lead this week’s performance concert featuring selected pieces by ...
If you told sophomore Isha Patnaik two years ago that she would be a part of a huge sketch-comedy collective in college, she likely would have “lol'd” (or “laughed out loud”). Since becoming a Jumbo, however, Patnaik’s involvement with the sketch comedy group, Major: Undecided, has become ...
Anthony Bourdain might just have the best job in the world -- traveling the planet in search of great food.Past seasons of "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown" have seen our host explore sex culture in Japan and visit a frozen-in-time mansion in India, as well as visit places right here in the ...
Stars Hollow fans rejoice: as of today, Oct. 1, all seven seasons of “Gilmore Girls” (2000 -- 2007) are available to stream on Netflix. Fans of the show can now binge-watch the beloved dramedy about a single working mother and her teenage daughter. But why resurrect a series, even one as beloved ...
Stuck in the Tufts bubble, it’s easy to get caught eating the same food ad nauseum: the same salad at Dewick, the same order at Nick’s or the same latte at the Rez. Rinse and repeat. And if you’ve already picked a favorite cafe or study spot, then forget about it. Hey, there’s no shame -- ...
With a crooning and dramatic voice that reverberates like Arcade Fire’s Win Butler's and retains the drama of David Bowie, it is no wonder that Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas is the androgynous wunderkind set to take the music world by storm.Perfume Genius’ Sept. 23 release “Too Bright" ...
One of four locations, Back Bay's Flour Bakery is a vibrant and inviting hub of kind faces, tantalizing scents and beautifully crafted food. Opened in 2013, the Back Bay branch is the youngest Flour location. After exploring the culinary breadth of New York City, Harvard graduate Joanne Chang returned ...
Fall has always been a season of celebration and plenty in New England -- a time to appreciate the cornucopia of harvest treats and colorful foliage that make this region special. So, when it comes time to choose your apple picking destination, make sure you take into account only the best orchards ...
A live concert, a dance performance, a taste of drama and a night out at the club all rolled into one, “Heartbeat: A Modern Dance Rock Concert” seems to promise audience members anything they could ever desire for a Friday night of entertainment. The multidisciplinary collaboration, spearheaded ...
"New Girl" (2011-present) has offered a promising start to its fourth season. Creating a third season can be a difficult time for shows -- often following a great second season, where writers are finally comfortable with their characters and the storyline has picked up steam. Falling ...
When FOX’s “Sleepy Hollow” (2013 - present) premiered last fall, it provided a type of entertainment unlike anything else on television: a fun, fast-paced mash-up of historical fiction and paranormal fantasy using a police procedural formula. Although only thirteen episodes, the show’s first ...
The elephant, the mascot, the legend: Jumbo and his legacy are the focus of the Tufts Art Gallery's new exhibit “Jumbo: Marvel, Myth and Mascot." Curated by Tufts Professor of Art History Andrew McClellan, the exhibition is the first comprehensive exploration of Jumbo, who arrived on campus ...
"Gotham" (2014 - present) catapults into fall TV’s comic-scape with all the expected classics: cloaked imps whizzing through market alleyways, sweeping pans of a shadow-soaked city, a full, brooding score of police sirens and suspense-mode strings. Immediately recognizable are the impossibly ...
Too often the Top Ten in the Daily Arts section has been a box riddled with the sardonic musings of cynical editors. Today, in the face of violent world conflicts, shady politicians and Ebola, Arts brings you our top ten not-necessarily-super-awful things that have happened recently. Though some of ...
If Sun Kil Moon makes anything clear on stage, it’s that frontman Mark Kozelek is certainly not singing for love of his fans. Performing at the Somerville Theater on Sept. 19, Sun Kil Moon gave a raw -- and sometimes incendiary -- performance.Begging the audience for ibuprofen and cigarettes, or else ...
Hurdling upward fast, and with no visible escape, Thomas -- the protagonist of “The Maze Runner,” played by Dylan O’Brien -- seems to be trapped in the world's scariest dumbwaiter. Released last Friday, “The Maze Runner” is a movie adaptation of James Dashner’s 2009 novel of the same ...
Deliberately slow, never lethargic and just slinky enough to avoid being soporific, Leonard Cohen’s new album, “Popular Problems,” was released on Sept. 23 -- two days after Cohen's 80th birthday. The album proves that the singer-songwriter is not only timeless but musically transcendent. ...
Crime dramas have the propensity to conjure images of Brooklyn's back alleys, intimidating mobsters torturing innocents and -- of course -- an excess of gun violence. This fall’s newest crime drama, "The Drop," (released on Sept. 12) aligns itself with these archetypes, but sets ...
There are TV shows that start off brilliantly, but after a season or two lose some steam. There are also shows that have quite a rocky start and find their voice and footing in the seasons that follow. "The Mindy Project" (2012-present) is on its way to becoming part of the latter group. Season after season, the main characters continue to be fleshed out with a little more characterization. Even better, the show stays fresh with increasingly wacked-out story lines, as each episode puts less of an emphasis on Mindy finding a boyfriend.
Though rock fans everywhere are still waiting for Led Zeppelin to reunite and make their dreams come true, singer Robert Plant has made it abundantly clear that he has moved on. With a solo career spanning over three decades and reaching far beyond the boundaries of the rock 'n’ roll of his youth, ...
