Arts

TV

‘Lovecraft Country’ explores reality through horror, fantasy

By Maeve Hagerty | November 9

The ten-episode series debuted August 16 and has since been produced in weekly installments until October 18. As the brainchild of such notable executive producers Misha Green of "Underground" (2016-2017), Jordan Peele of "Get Out" (2017) and "Us" (2019) and J.J. Abrams of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" (2019), among others, the show is a true fusion of genres.

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Columns

Maeve's Music Mondays: Presidential campaign soundtrack highlights

By Maeve Hagerty | November 9

Presidential campaigns work carefully to craft an image that represents their candidate, and what better way than to have a cultivated playlist with a few core songs to play during rallies and TV advertisements?

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Arts

Coppola's 'On The Rocks' is subtle, showy all at once

By Stephanie Hoechst | November 6

“On The Rocks” isn’t trying anything particularly new or mind-blowing as a film. However, it’s somehow a both stylish and understated exploration of parenthood, marriage, and fidelity that, more than anything, gives Bill Murray the chance to show off his skills yet again.

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Columns

Livestreamed and Quarantined: Moses Sumney

By Florence Almeda | November 6

Uncertainty has certainly become the norm, and while it’s frustrating we can't gather as a community in the same ways that we used to, it's songs like “Rank & File” that remind me how crucially important music is in making sense of the world.

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Arts

Poems & Pints provides intimacy, empowerment in the midst of uncertainty

By Aisha Catena | November 5

The annual literary social gathering, “Poems & Pints,” has become emblematic of the Boston Book Festival. The purpose of “Poems & Pints” is for Boston-Area poets to share and advertise their current work while further connecting the metropolitan poetry scene through an interactive social gathering.

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Arts

Affiliates of 'The Moth' (story)tell all

By Yiyun Tom Guan | November 4

In light of COVID-19, The Moth’s virtual programs continue to foster emotional bonds between people through its broadcasting of the most personal, moving and vulnerable stories.

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Columns

Keep the Cameras Rolling: 'Midsommar' and isolation

By Julian Levy | November 4

If you were looking for a fun, maybe even slightly campy thrill-ride to escape back to a simpler time before masks and Zoom trivia nights, "Midsommar" is not that movie. Despite being released in 2019, well before COVID-19 went global, it reflects similar anxieties, emotions and dangers.

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Arts

Ameya Okamoto talks art, action, hope

By Devina Bhalla | November 3

With her art, Okamoto takes the world apart and puts it back together into tangible pieces that bring others into those intersections themselves.

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Arts

Catherine Martin discusses radio crime-solving, the patriarchy

By Stephanie Hoechst | November 3

“I treat media as a large social subconscious,” Martin says of her work in media studies. “We deal with different, changing ideas through media, especially TV.”

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Arts

Photos: Fall on the hill

By Tufts Daily Photo Staff | November 3

Our photographers best picks from the fall.

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Arts

Weekender: 'Ghostbusters' still scares up big fun 36 years later

By Drew Weisberg | October 29

“Ghostbusters” (1984) is a marvel: an oddball masterpiece that is as endlessly quotable as it is endlessly rewatchable. There, that should be sufficient, go watch it. 

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Arts

Boston Book Festival showcases feminist books

By Sadie Leite | October 29

In a Boston Book Festival event aptly named “Fiction: Witches and Other Bad Heroines,” on Oct. 25, moderator Bridget Marshall interviewed four authors about the spooky contents of their novels and, more importantly, their radical female protagonists.

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Arts

Rorschach #1 lays dark, intriguing pattern

By Carl Svahn | October 29

Despite Alan Moore’s outspoken hatred for any continuation of his comic, the staunch devotion the book’s fans have for it and the equally vicious scorn they have for any kind of follow-up, "Watchmen" sequels are now a fad and have generally flopped hard. Tom King’s Rorschach #1 comic (so far) has not.

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Arts

Janice Lourie: A pioneer in the fusion of art, software

By Ramona Meng Xi | October 28

At first glance, Lourie's artworks are geometric, abstract and slightly bewildering. Blocks and layers of colors, shapes and lines serve as the basic composition. The whole picture might look surreal and confusing, but Lourie's inspirations and sources for her multimedia graphic art are in fact based on simple day-to-day matters. 

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Arts

Netflix's 'Grand Army' examines, condemns systemic injustice

By Phoebe Yates | October 28

The series, centered around a Brooklyn high school of the same name, follows a group of teenagers as they navigate not only the usual coming-of-age fare, but also an intense traumatic experience after a bomb is set off outside of their school.

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Columns

Keep the Cameras Rolling: Satirizing Trump's America with 'Borat'

By Julian Levy | October 28

Just as the jester uses his inherent silliness to make fun of the king, so does Sacha Baron Cohen to reveal the absurdity of the American philosophy toward COVID-19. Borat, the alter ego Cohen has become synonymous with, has proven with his second official outing that the character’s original film was not just lighting in a bottle.

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Arts

Seoul Fashion Week stuns on, off the runway

By Colette Smith | October 27

The 2020 show boasted its usual creativity not only on the runway but with the incredible street style that, as usual, rivals and maybe even outshines the runway looks.

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Arts

'The Trial of the Chicago 7' melds history, present

By Zane Ice | October 27

As the straightforward title would suggest, "The Trial of the Chicago 7" (2020) wastes no time diving into the centerpiece of its plot. Faithfully based on the events of the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and the infamous criminal trial that followed, the film uses the courtroom as a springboard to explore the ethos of ‘60s revolutionary politics — with eerily familiar themes. 

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Columns

On the Big Screen: 'Hubie Halloween'

By Iverson Eliopoulos | October 27

In 2019, Adam Sandler joked that if he didn’t win an Oscar for “Uncut Gems” (2019) he would make a movie “that is so bad on purpose” just to get back at the industry. Enter “Hubie Halloween” (2020).

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Arts

‘Ecologies of Acknowledgement’ calls for recognition of occupied land 

By Camille Shimshak | October 26

This fall, The Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) is showing “Ecologies of Acknowledgment,” a collaborative project between the writer and interdisciplinary artist Sarah Kanouse and researcher and writer Nicholas Brown.

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