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Tuff Talks: Finding friends
By Jenny Lu | October 13Dear J: How do I meet new people/make new friends if I am an introvert and have a hard time just going up to people and talking to them?
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On the big screen: 'Ava'
By Iverson Eliopoulos | October 13Ava was the most popular movie on Apple TV in its opening weekend, but you should save yourself the seven dollars. Cliché after cliché leads you through a story that only gets more absurd, leaving you unsatisfied and frankly wondering how filmmakers can mess up movies so badly. I watched this movie so that you didn’t have to.
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Keeping up with the 617: Why the Bruins are destined to fail
By Matt Goguen | October 13For the past decade, the Boston Bruins have fallen short of high expectations and continue to disappoint their loyal Boston fanbase. Even if their core players continue to play at a high offensive rate, a regression for the Boston Bruins seems inevitable next season.
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Sharp from the Sofa: Bean the Astros, what about the Patriots?
By Alex Sharp | October 12It is often said that the Tufts community is a political echo chamber, but it also happens to be a sports echo chamber. Boston sports fans dominate the Medford Somerville campus like Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin dominate the Patriots in the Superbowl. This column is for the silent majority at Tufts, those who would rather go to class shirtless than in a Patriots jersey.
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Maeve’s Music Mondays: Nigerian Afrobeats hits different
By Maeve Hagerty | October 12But what is the Afrobeats genre, specifically to Nigeria? As an extension of the earlier Afrobeat style (yes, the presence of the “s” is a distinction), it features lots of the same influences of jazz, funk, highlife and traditional Nigerian Fuji music. However, it has also drawn from more current pop music and techno, reaching a larger dance club audience and rising in popularity.
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The Countdown: How will Biden handle a more left-leaning House caucus?
By Matt Rice | October 12With just three weeks until Election Day, it’s a near-sure thing Biden will be elected President. But even if he can defeat Trump, take back the Senate and hold the House, Biden will have to navigate an environment no Democratic president since Carter has dealt with: a House caucus with more high-profile, left-wing members.
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The Weekly Rewind: The 35-year-old musical lifespan of female artists
By Jack Clohisy | October 9Sexism and ageism in the music industry favor men and prevent them from needing to demonstrate artistic growth in order to be successful. As artists age, their music matures; so the belief that a female musician has to be at her peak before 35 is frustrating.
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Live-Streamed and Quarantined: James Blake
By Florence Almeda | October 9Doused in glassy synths and mournful chord progressions, James Blakes’ music is equally enchanting as it is haunting. Like standing on a frozen lake in late December, his cascading melodies never fail to raise goosebumps.
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Hoops Traveler: The Canadian dream, a basketball nirvana
By Arnav Sacheti | October 9In a league that is called the National Basketball Association, the Raptors effectively render this name false simply through their existence outside the United States. Therefore, not only has Canada longed to have success at the world’s biggest basketball stage, but on a national pride level, they have wanted respect. The Raptors gave them all of that with the 2019 title.
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The Turf Monster: Quarter-season division power rankings
By Aiden Herrod | October 8At this point, we’ve seen plenty of trends emerge. The next few weeks are crucial for teams to course-correct on the negative trends and capitalize on the positive ones.
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Philosophy in Focus: Enemies of the state
By Caroline Depalma | October 8While we don’t want to be anyone’s enemy, we should always choose that path over one of servitude to a tyrant who conducts himself like an unruly toddler on national television.
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Sobremesa: Falling through the cracks of COVID-19
By Elizabeth Buehl | October 7It would be easy to point blame at our federal and state governments, but the best option right now is to implement concrete solutions to get American children back on the path toward academic success.
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Since You Last Saw Me: The perfect queer movie
By Owen Bonk | October 7While most people have turned to gardening, baking or biking, my isolation projects have been more abstract. One of them is, in essence, an investigation that revolves around a single question: is there such thing as the perfect queer film?
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Keep the Cameras Rolling: The distribution dilemma
By Julian Levy | October 7What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? Thus is the state of movies in 2020. It’s difficult to understate how profound an effect COVID-19 has had on the film industry; after a historic year in 2019, with Disney alone producing several, billion-dollar movies, major theater chains are now struggling just to stay in business.
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In the Paint: Jeremy Lin deserves to play
By Jenny Lu | October 7In a league with nearly no Asian-American players, NBA teams should dig deep and ask themselves why they gave up on the only Asian-American who was an above-average rotational player that has proven to us all his potential and worth.
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Tuff Talks: Love in COVID times
By Jenny Lu | October 6Dear J: “I started talking to this guy, but it’s hard to spend time together due to the new COVID-19 policies. How do I pursue a relationship right now?
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On The Big Screen: ‘The Devil All The Time’
By Iverson Eliopoulos | October 6“The Devil All The Time” is not for the faint of heart, but it’s an engaging film that seeks to strip away the people we pretend to be, giving way to our true natures. Whether or not it’s successful in that is debatable, but it’s worth a watch nonetheless.
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The Countdown: What we can learn from Trump’s diagnosis
By Matt Rice | October 6This tone-deaf behavior extends beyond Trump — from America’s billionaires vastly expanding their empires or mega yacht owners fleeing to the open ocean, I can only hope the President’s diagnosis teaches our ruling class just how indiscriminately dangerous this virus can be.
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Keeping up with the 617: Knee-jerk reactions to the Celtics' playoff exit
By Matt Goguen | October 6It's never truly an NBA postseason unless the Boston Celtics fail to live up to expectations. Every year the Celtics roll over teams in the regular season just to disappoint with an unexpected playoff exit.
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Little Bit of History Repeating: Dr. Hilton’s Specific No. 3
By Lena Leavitt | October 6In 1916, the people of Boston found out, much to their chagrin, that the beloved sugary pill they had been taking for two decades to break colds and prevent pneumonia was, in fact, just that — sugar, with a little alcohol coated over it.
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