Anyone who has taken the Joey from Davis Square to Tufts this year has probably noticed a relatively new addition to the route: Masala. Located in Teele Square, Masala offers a delightful blend of Indian and Nepali cuisine.
Elizabeth Olsen is currently the film industry's best-kept secret. She is young, immensely talented and, with the release of the Sundance hit "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (2011), Olsen is ready to become a star. The Daily got the chance to chat with the skilled indie darling about developing her troubled character, what she learned at New York University (NYU) and the most difficult scene she had to film.
The campus is officially in a slump. Personally, I'm so tired and overworked that sitting in Carmichael next to what must be an early hominid loudly masticating a bagel and cream cheese is such an acute assault on the senses that it just may induce an aneurysm. Disappointing midterms grades, the accumulating anxiety from falling behind in work, not getting enough sleep, three days of rain each week, stuffy noses, fading tans and the encroaching onset of weather that will turn your nipples hard as diamonds — it's enough to send any first-world college-educated WASP into a spiraling depression. In light of this ubiquitous plight, I hereby declare this week National Mediocrity, Disenchantment and Low Self-Esteem Week and will now recommend several soul-saving elixirs that can help you keep plugging along.
The trouble with Mike White and Laura Dern's new HBO show, "Enlightened," is that it's not funny, dramatic or entertaining.
Until Mar. 4, 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) will be hosting "Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture." Kelly, an American artist who is also well−renowned for his paintings, drawings and prints, has made 30 wood sculptures from 1958 to 1996. His inspiration comes from "investigating how things look" and his ability to see everything as "a jumble of shapes and colors."
Ridiculous. That was the one word going through my head both during and after the Lyric Stage Company of Boston's play "Or." This production was so utterly ridiculous that I'm itching to convey how disappointing it was.
Copious nudity, deceitful mistresses and socio−political maneuvers that would make George W. Bush blush are standard fare on "Boardwalk Empire," HBO's wildly successful drama, which is inching its way toward the middle of its second season.
All right, kids, it's that time of year. Bust out the pumpkin beers, slutty outfits and high−fructose corn syrup: it's Halloween.
Even before midterms started, Tufts was a pretty unfunny campus. It's this uptight atmosphere that drives many Jumbos off−campus for laughs. This past Friday, The Precinct Bar in Union Square played host to several comedians for a free comedy show entitled "Midnight Comedy for the Undead."
Brotherly love, dutiful hand bobbing and ecstatic dancing pervaded Cousens Gym's Carzo Cage on Saturday night. Tufts students spanning varying levels of sobriety tottered through the New England dark to witness the performance of growing indie−pop icons Matt & Kim and their supporting group, Tufts alumni Timeflies, as they tore it down for Tufts' annual Cage Rage.
You would need a magnifying glass to properly view many of the pieces in "Two Masters of Fantasy: Bresdin and Redon," an exhibit currently running at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).
Noel Gallagher, the more talented half of Oasis' infamous Gallagher duo, has finally released his debut solo album — and it's OK. Since Gallagher announced that he was going to strike out on his own, Oasis fans worldwide have been betting for months that the album just wouldn't have what it takes to follow up Oasis.
"The Walking Dead" is not your average piece of mindless, zombie−killing entertainment. It's a drama ripe with genuine human conflict — a show that seamlessly binds elements of horror, action and suspense.
Boston art monoliths like the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum may satisfy the average artistically-inclined Tufts student, but for those who find themselves craving something that hasn't managed to sneak its way into a textbook, Boston has a few cures for survey-museum overload.
One of the most wonderful things about studying abroad is the international community of which I find myself a member — many students hail from lands far more exotic than my London, England. Through my international contacts, I have become involved with Tufts' Intercultural Conversation Program, which aims to pair up native and non−native English speakers to practice English−language skills and learn a bit about each other's cultures.
While opera may not be the most popular genre of music among today's youth, many students at Tufts are keeping the tradition alive in the Tufts Opera Ensemble. One of these passionate musicians is BryanaMarrero, a senior majoring in music.
On Oct. 13, Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with Spanish guest conductor Juanjo Mena to deliver Antonín Dvo?ák's Cello Concerto at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's (BSO) Symphony Hall. A name like Yo-Yo Ma tends to speak for itself, but, as this performance came to prove, he deserves his acclaim. Not many cellists have the ability to make a 40-minute piece feel as if it happened in a few minutes.
Offering an impressively arrayed, elegantly prepared menu on a regular basis is one thing, but doing it with constantly rotating dishes is another thing entirely. Bondir, the culinary progeny of head chef Jason Bond, not only makes good on this ambitious promise but does so almost effortlessly.
