“Foxcatcher,” released Nov. 14, is based on the true story of eccentric millionaire John du Pont, heir to the du Pont family fortune amassed from the DuPont chemical company. The film's plot examines what success means to those who already have it.As if to bury his previous comedic work, Steve ...
A young Lila Ramani sat in her high chair bobbing her head back and forth in between bites of Cheerios to the Spanish music her parents put on the stereo. After a checkup with the family pediatrician it was determined Ramani had a mild case of boogie fever, and was prescribed a guitar to treat the ...
Henry Steinway began releasing smash club hits under the name Clockwork, producing remixes of songs by the big dogs of the EDM scene like Avicii. He found some success under the Clockwork moniker, but his connection to the work he produced sometimes seemed tenuous. He now seeks to establish himself ...
Tufts is an environment that could foster a culture of artistic production and collaboration when it comes to making films. However, that hasn't been the case -- up until now. In a response to increased student interest, the Experimental College will begin to offer a film major starting next ...
Junior Soubhik Barari is the modern renaissance man -- a bad boy in a band who specializes in computer science and romance. He is redefining what it means to be in a band in college, managing his time well so that neither work nor play is sacrificed; the only victim is sleep.Barari came to Tufts a ...
Ryan Hemsworth's latest release is entitled "Alone for the First Time.” Yet on this album he's certainly not alone, and it's definitely not his first release. Hemsworth has hand-picked independent artists, chosen through his Secret Songs record club -- a community of like-minded ...
It begins with an advisory: “This video contains explicit language.” At first, it seems likeT-Pain on NPR’s Tiny Desk should be funny. It sounds like a blast. Then he appears, and it's not the T-Pain fans are used to -- the one who wrote a song about falling deeply in love with an exotic ...
In 2010, Chaz Bundick, known to many as the indie-pop, chillwave, nu-disco (or almost any other genre out there) artist Toro Y Moi, began releasing music under a second moniker: Les Sins.Under this new name, Bundick has produced more dance-worthy music, characterized by strong bass. The three EPs released ...
“If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket,” Lou (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) says repeatedly throughout "Nightcrawler." These words reflect both Lou's principles and those of the American dream. In fact, Lou, a keen young entrepreneur, aptly represents ...
After exploring the urban jungle in “Los Angeles” (2008), embarking on a journey through space and time in “Cosmogramma” (2010) and capturing the essence of the night in “Until The Quiet Comes” (2012), Steven Ellison, also known as Flying Lotus, is at it again. This time, he turns to his ...
