These are troubling times indeed, as surely none of us need reminding — we’re told everyday that the pandemic is guaranteed to grow worse before it gets better, and the uncertainty of the future ahead makes it feel like everything is spiraling out of control. It’s too easy to feel static while ...
Introduction: During these challenging and uncertain times, it can feel like most things are coming to a grinding halt. We are here to remind you that there is something that waits behind for no one: fashion. So, while we would love to be lounging around, scrolling through TikToks, we have a job to ...
You only need to have seen a “gangster” film or two to understand the nature of the genre: The films are almost always androcentric, and any scene can turn violent in a moment’s notice. Legendary director Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” (1990) undoubtedly fits into the “gangster” genre, ...
Over the past few weeks of self-quarantine and social distancing, one question has come up in conversation quite often: "How are you staying busy?" It's a valid and important question: We want to make sure that the people we love are finding ways to take care of themselves and adjust to ...
These last two weeks have been a long train of emotions.First, was the disbelief that our college experience would be cut short. Decisively short. Shortly after President Monaco released the decision that Tufts' campus was closing, friends were already making plans to return after break, imagining ...
Welcome back to our column. It is with true sadness that we must report that these columns must now be written remotely as we now sit on couches about 1,000 miles apart from one another. But, as they say, the show must go on. At this point, the Olivier Awards have been canceled, and we cannot bear the ...
The past week has been life-changing for students, families, children and workers across the globe. We’re facing a pandemic that’s disrupting the ways we work and socialize. It was a meme we could laugh at; now, it’s spreading rapidly. In order to make these next few months a little easier, Lexi ...
While fringe has never gone away completely, it was heavily featured in the Spring 2020 fashion shows and will likely become much more common than it ever was before. We do not like to discriminate here, so instead of focusing on specific fringed garments (think fringe jackets, fringe dresses, fringe ...
Prolific composer and Tufts Professor of the Practice of Music Kareem Roustomwill have his “String Quartet No. 1, ‘Shades of Night’” (2018) performed in its Boston premiere by the Amernet String Quartet tonightin the Granoff Music Center.Roustom’s nine-movement work follows the changes in ...
The doors of Distler Performance Hall opened for the Tufts x NEC Dual Degree recital at 8:00 p.m. on March 7. Silence fell over the crowd as Lila Searls, a first-year in the dual degree program, and Lexie Aguilar, a first-year at the New England Conservatory (NEC), took the stage, both wielding soprano ...
As contemporary artists like Future, Lil Baby and Young Thug continue to dominate the mainstream rap world, it is refreshing to look back to their predecessors from Atlanta, namely the group that changed everything in the 1990s: OutKast. The superduo of André 3000 (André Benjamin) and Big Boi (Antwan ...
It would not be unfair to say that Netflixminiseries “I Am Not Okay With This” (2020–) is a cultural ley line, the convergence of two different ideas at once that leads to a product drawn heavily from its component parts, but often in conflicting ways.Released on Feb. 26 with directing and producing ...
On Friday morning, season 12 cast member Sherry Pie was disqualified from "RuPaul's Drag Race" (2009–), a shock with only a single parallel in "Drag Race" history. The disqualification followed revelations that Joey Gugliemelli, aka Sherry Pie, had catfished several actors ...
This week, we follow Julie Andrews again, this time as Maria through the lush fields and mountains of Austria with seven singing children, a handsome Captain and some nuns in “The Sound of Music” (1965). No, we have not become a Julie Andrews column (not that it would be such a bad thing). Allie ...
March 2020 brings an exciting array of new books. Here are eight of the most anticipated books of 2020 that launch this month."Deacon King Kong" by James McBride“Deacon King Kong” is James McBride’s first novel after his award-winning work “The Good Lord Bird” (2013). This book dives ...
“Roll over Beethoven / Dig to these rhythm and blues”Chuck Berry sang these lyrics in 1956 in his hit single “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956), only to be covered and further popularized by The Beatles in 1963. The song’s premise is that Beethoven would be 'rolling in his grave' if he had ...
During the pre-title sequence of the new film “Sonic the Hedgehog” (2020), the protagonist is told by his mother figure that he must “never stop running” from those who would hurt him to harness his super-speed. Over the next 90 minutes, you realize that that’s the whole point: trouble finds ...
One of YouTube’s best offerings is the Bon Appétit channel, a page with over 5 million subscribers and a variety of wonderful videos, including chefs making gourmet treats, teaching kitchen skills and recreating food from tasting it. The channel is a part of Bon Appétit’s — the monthly American ...
After being criticized early on for a slow-moving plot, it seems like the time the writers of "Better Call Saul" (2015–) spent world building has come back to benefit them and their viewers.In just the first three episodes of the fifth season, major plot points have moved the story further ...
In most popular apocalypse stories, the plot largely takes place either during or after a worldwide catastrophe. After a disaster or plague, we watch protagonists struggling to survive in a society post-collapse, which only vaguely resembles our current world. In an inversion of this narrative, “Weather” ...
