“30 Rock” is the only television show that I have binge-watched and actually felt truly addicted to. There is just no other way to describe the show besides plain good. "30 Rock,” starring and created by Tina Fey, ran on NBC from 2006 to 2013. The series is loosely based on Fey's experience ...
Webster’s Word of the Day: Trepidadjective\TREP-id\timorous, fearfulWhile I may not be the proudest resident of Cleveland, Ohio, I can attest that the city has one of the best public park systems I’ve ever encountered. The Metroparks serve as a great place to relax, spend time with family and run ...
Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors is off to one of the hottest starts any player has had in NBA history. He is clearly the No. 1 player in the world right now, (sorry Mr. James) and is leading the Warriors to an undefeated season thus far. His shooting numbers are off the charts, and his per ...
This past week, President Barack Obama’s administration announced it would reject the proposal to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, ending a long-running debate. Ahead of the world’s most important climate talks in years, it is an agenda-setting move.The pipeline would have further connected ...
Magical realism is one of those impossibly slippery genres; it is difficult to define and changes shape with every work that it categorizes. It has the strange powers and creatures of fantasy, whether it's girls with wings or men with claws, and yet it's grounded in the real and ordinary world ...
On the eve of this Halloween, I twisted my ankle. Despite what the "Minions" (2015) movie tells you, just because you dress like a minion for Halloween does not mean you can bounce off the walls unharmed. What was weirder, however, was my Halloween experience at the hospital the next day. ...
We tend to think of the math and science fields as being particularly hypermasculine and sexist. A class like creative writing, on the other hand, is seen as something “anyone” can participate in. People love to pretend creative writing allows us to understand “universal” human values that ...
With the regular season now more than halfway over, we’re quickly approaching a new high in complete and utter incompetence. And with that, let's get to what went wrong this week.
I had one thing in common with almost every Chinese-born person I met this summer in Beijing: I am an only child. “You are Chinese!” they would joke, smiling welcomingly as I had suddenly gained membership to their private club. It is true that a majority of Chinese people born in the past few decades ...
Halloween sort of haunts me as a concept. It is fraught with outfit questions: When does sexy become too much? When does poking fun become offensive? When do we get to go home and take off these dumb ears?
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has not had the best of times. It is hard to believe that this was the same Chelsea squad that romped to the title just a few months ago. It seems that Eden Hazard’s missed penalty is a representation of his own decline in form.If there’s anyone who can turn it around, ...
If anyone at Tufts asks me what music I like, I immediately respond with “hip-hop,” usually getting a nod of approval in return. However, when I go back home, slip into my car and jet across the New Jersey Turnpike, the playlist blasting from my car speakers is exclusively country. I know what ...
Dear Professors Pennington, Proctor, Clerge and Atherton,Three weeks ago, in the Houston Hall basement, you guys put on a Scholars-in-Residence event called “Behind the Scenes: Professors.” I have a few confessions to make. First, I only decided to go to your event because of the "sushi provided" ...
A couple months ago, I was sitting at Mike’s in Davis Square, and there was a baseball game playing on the TV set. It was the middle of the day, and a few customers (plus the cashier) were watching it. It took me a couple of minutes to realize these adults were yelling at a game played by children ...
It seems like every week a superstar running back suffers a season ending injury. Jamaal Charles, Arian Foster and now Le'Veon Bell have all been wiped out of the fantasy equation.The "highly hyped" group of Todd Gurley, Charcandrick West, Dion Lewis and Devonta Freeman has arrived and ...
In honor of the recent news of a possible "Gilmore Girls" reunion series on Netflix, I’m going to write about one of my all time favorite shows. "Gilmore Girls" (2000-2007) is a classic comedy-drama created by Amy Sherman-Palladino starring actresses Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. ...
Marco Rubio is going to be the Republican nominee to be the next president of the United States of America. Good to get that off my chest. I’ve been ready to say that for a few weeks now, but Wednesday’s debate solidified the Florida senator, currently a solid third in polls, as the man to beat.Getting ...
The NBA has evolved over the years since it was founded in 1946, but one of the most notable differences we have seen is the change in what referees consider fouls and technical fouls. A game that was once won by physically dominating one's opponent is now more of a finesse game as the number of foul ...
Word of the Day: Underwhelmverb \un-der-WELM\ :to fail to impress or stimulateI still often shiver with fear at the sight of eggs. When my team arrived at my cross-country camp senior year of high school, the bus doors opened, and we were welcomed with a wall of stench that came to be described as the ...
Rebecca: This past weekend, I went home to New York. My mom loves anything Sci-Fi, and as per usual, she was watching "Z Nation" (2014-present). Not only does she love it, she hates when people hurt the integrity of the story. Once, when my mom killed a moth, I yelled “Godzilla killed Mothra.” ...
