Perhaps a more underappreciated aspect of a cappella music is the technology that supports the singers, amplifying their sound so that it can be heard optimally in a given performance space.A cappella is often described as the music of the people in that it relies solely on the sounds made by the human ...
Going into the midseason premiere of season four of “The Mindy Project” (2012-present), Mindy and Danny’s relationship was in limbo. And in the premiere, titled “Will They or Won’t They?,” it became clear that, at least for now, they won’t. For a show written by and about a person obsessed ...
On Monday, prolific film scholar David Bordwell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison delivered a lecture about experimentation in storytelling techniques in 1940s Hollywood films. The talk, titled "The Switcheroo Tradition: Narrative Innovations in 1940s Hollywood," was held in Olin Hall ...
Prea Bhandari is a first-year who spoke with me about spiky shoes, hair dye and St. Thomas fashion.Parker Selman (PS): How would you describe your personal style?Prea Bhandari (PB): I guess I would describe it as gothic, but I change it up a lot depending on the day and what it’s like outside. Relatively, ...
If you missed the season premiere of “Silicon Valley” (2014 - present) on Sunday night, you weren’t the only one. The parody of West Coast tech culture returned the same night as its HBO sibling “Game of Thrones” (2011 - present), whose sixth season landed with something like a biblical impact. ...
After over thirty years in the industry, Indian filmmaker Mira Nair is in a class of her own. Quite literally, in fact; her movie “Salaam Bombay!” (1988) was the first Indian film since 1957 to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making her the first Indian woman nominated ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.The samples they were looking for were sequestered in a separate chamber within the biomedical lab. To this door Alicia had neither passcode, nor key nor any instruction as to how to gain access. This was as far as their research had ...
Only four months in, I've encountered a serious contender for the best episode of television I’ll watch in 2016. This week, my world was rocked by a cinematic, heartbreaking script brought to life by two beautiful, extraordinary actors — each of them less than half my age. I don’t much care ...
Tufts Junior and Computer Science Major Jeremy Slavitz has been making video games for years, ever since a promotional giveaway exposed him to Apple’s App Store. Slavitz received an iPod Touch with his first Macbook, beginning his path in game development that has continued in college.“I was playing ...
The old adage holds that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But when A$AP Ferg fired off a hasty tweet mistakenly trying to correct hip-hop manager Michael C. Clark on his use of the word “forthcoming” to describe his second studio album, triggering the customary Internet pile-on (“A$AP ...
It is 8:50 p.m. and the crowd is eagerly waiting for Father John Misty at House of Blues.The venue is fully packed, it is impossible to move in the general area. As the stage crew raises the microphone to nearly 6.5 feet, the audience is unable to comprehend what’s to come. Yet, when J. Tillman walks ...
I've read a lot of fantasy over the years, from the time that I was a little girl devouring the works of Diana Wynne Jones to my current complicated relationship with “A Song of Ice and Fire” (1996 - present) from George R. R. Martin (yes, I'm still waiting for “The Winds of Winter”). ...
“Ashes to ashes, dust to sidechicks.” Queen Bey is back, everybody. And we aren’t ready for what she’s brought us.Going into Saturday night, very little was known about “Lemonade," Beyoncé’s hour-long HBO event that had been announced just a week earlier. The special’s mysterious ...
I used to be terrified of singing in front of people. When I was a choir kid in middle school, one of my greatest fears was that I would forget the words to my solo or choke on a high note in front of hundreds of people. After singing solos for audiences for almost a decade, I no longer distinguish ...
For months, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been touting its new show, “Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces,” as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see works from the museum’s collection. But with its dark gray-blue walls and dim lighting, “Off the Wall,” despite its impressive ...
Just under seven years before Edward Snowden made internet privacy a topic of national conversation, AOL found itself embroiled in its own alarming — if less massive — personal data scandal. As part of a research initiative, the company collected search information from over 650,000 of its users for three months, yielding roughly 20 million queries. Each of these searches included information about who conducted them, when they did so and which websites they visited immediately afterward. While the text files that contained all this data were never supposed to leave AOL's systems, one researcher — out of negligence or insubordination — made them available to the general public. AOL deleted the files quickly, but not quickly enough — they were downloaded and copied by a number of internet users almost immediately, and all of the information remains easily accessible today.
TV’s favorite post-traumatic optimist returned to the small screen on April 15 with the release of the second season of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2015 – present) on Netflix. The much-anticipated 13-episode season was developed exclusively for Netflix and thus boasts episodes with longer ...
As tomorrow's release of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” inches ever closer, let us enjoy the time we have left with the catchy hits set to dominate the airwaves this summer. After all, the past couple of weeks have yielded a number of outstanding singles. With the stage finally set, the battle for ...
Georgia Kay is a junior at Tufts who spoke with me about Melbourne style, her slight obsession with cravats and what she thinks are the biggest fashion faux pas.
With the semester entering the final weeks, the usual glut of work is upon us — research papers, problem sets and the always-painful group projects are inescapable this time of the year. Although nearly everyone is trying to complete the piles of homework they’ve been assigned, no end-of-semester ...
