Rebecca: I often write about my mom, mostly because I regard her as a sage. When giving advice, I always fall back on her musings. However, today’s introduction is about my mom’s interaction with Mac DeMarco. My brother is a huge Mac DeMarco fan, and after finding out that Mac was summering on our ...
First of all, let me establish one thing: I have little use for the term “chick lit.” It's a term that seems to induce instant eye rolls and condescending sighs from people, often “important male writers” with an aura of self-satisfaction who reason that the only really important issues ...
Most of us here at Tufts University would agree that climate change represents a massive threat to humanity. Its impacts constitute enormous perils: crop failures, stronger storms, a precipitous decline in biodiversity, etc. Understanding this, Tufts professes to care about mitigating global warming, ...
When New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio announced the scheduling of a ticker tape parade following the United States women's national soccer team's (USWNT) winning the FIFA World Cup this past summer, New Yorkers were excited. Who wouldn’t want a parade? The welcoming of the USWNT seemed ...
Sometimes I get a flash of inspiration at three in the morning, and I can’t stop myself from punching note after note into the software until what I hear through my earphones matches what’s emanating from the overflowing file cabinets of my imagination. A few finely-crafted measures later, the roosters ...
Four years ago, a controversial Mario Balotelli goal derailed Spurs’ momentum. Last weekend, they banished those memories and are marching on. I was holding back on this column until they beat Manchester City. Their victory at the Etihad Stadiumlast weekend required a bit of luck, but they were very ...
“I have a secret. I am addicted to a good narrative … It’s funny because video games aren’t the first place you would expect to find any resemblance of a balanced and well executed narrative. Its very name, game, suggests something trivial, something purely for entertainment. In fact, I have ...
It looks like the proverbial phrase summing up my freshman housing situation, “home is where the WiFi (doesn’t) automatically connect," is going to be replaced next fall by something even more frightening than tufts-secure’s wrath: “home is where the…strangers live.”Housing season ...
Conrad Young is a freshman in the SMFA/Tufts dual-degree program who sat down to talk with me about basic pieces, genderless fashion and Kanye West’s new line.PS: How would you describe your personal style?CY: I like to start with the basics: black jeans, white button downs, white t-shirts, mostly ...
“You’ll never walk alone.” This is the famed motto of Liverpool. However, as many fans, and Steven Gerrard (a lifetime Liverpool player) will tell you, it is more than that — it is a way of life. The teary-eyed 45,000 that shook Anfield with their final serenade to hometown hero Gerrard last May will attest to that. For many Liverpool supporters “you’ll never walk alone” means that there is nothing that would cause them to turn their backs on their club. However, during Liverpool’s match against Sunderland two weekends ago, many supporters felt they had no other choice. In protest of the new £77 main stand ticket and a newly announced ticket pricing structure which will see 75 percent of tickets increase in price, 10,000 Liverpool supporters left Anfield in the 77th minute.
The three great loves of my life — in no particular order — are competitions, British baking and my grandma. Incorporate any of these elements into your show, and you’ll probably win my ardent and undying favor. Incorporate all three, and you’ll ruin me. Enter: "The Great British Bake Off" ...
Quarterbacks are shackled with the unsavory task of toeing the line between being too cautious and too reckless and aggressive with their attempted passes. A quarterback that checks down too often, such as Alex Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs, is derided as a “game manager” — someone who is ...
Pooja: Rebecca has often compared herself to Cher, not only to the artist but also the fictional character from the 1995 film "Clueless." There are many reasons to draw a comparison between the two, but the most important would be their shared love of matchmaking. Rebecca loves to matchmake, ...
When the temperature is lower than your age and the ice patches outside of your dorm seem just a little too slippery, going outside isn’t really in the cards. Besides, it's warm and cozy indoors, and with a few tricks (and a micro-fridge) you can make a dinner so delicious you won’t even miss ...
This week, I was worried I would have to dip into my “articles I can use when nothing is happening” reserve, as there were no primaries on either side of the aisle. On Saturday, however, this crazy election year got even crazier with the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The country’s ...
I’m sorry. It may be for some one of the hardest things to say or admit especially in the sports world. But this sorry isn’t so hard; it's actually one of the easiest sorrys I’ve ever had to say. This column is going to be an apology to a player who didn’t deserve the immediate backlash ...
When it comes to transportation infrastructure, Massachusetts--and in particular, the Boston region--is far from progressive. Yes, the T is underfunded, perhaps partly because of a persistent stigma against public transportation in America, and its connection with race, class and suburbanization. ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.“...and if I find out you’ve given my name to any mailing lists, there WILL be hell to pay!”Finding her tirade’s target out of earshot, Cecilia stood on the curb for a moment, allowing herself the indulgence of a self-righteousness ...
Critics of gaming culture complain that games are egoist because the player directly controls events through the proxy of the protagonist. I generally take issue with this, but this is especially untrue of That Dragon, Cancer. You can rock Joel to sleep, explore the colorful hospital with him. You can try to escape the room in a small rowboat as it fills with water, as the doctor explains painfully that the prognosis is terminal. The water overtakes the boat, and eventually you lose Joel in the waves as the game’s controls fail. You can’t save him.
Being a fan of a prolific author is always a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the odds of running out of books to read are significantly lower and you can look forward to a new book at fairly regular intervals. On the other, quality can sometimes vary wildly and an author who produces a stunning ...
