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Photos on the hill — Week of Oct. 5

Students are pictured on the Residential Quad on Aug. 8. Nicole Garay / The Tufts DailyA sign that reads, "Practice physical distancing" is pictured on President's Lawn on Sept. 6. Ann Marie Burke / The Tufts DailyA student is pictured reading on President's Lawn on Sept. 20. Nicole ...



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Livestreamed and Quarantined: ‘Girls with Guitars’

In the early months of quarantine, the two-time Grammy Award winning R&B artist H.E.R. began a livestream series, “Girls With Guitars,” a weekly conversation and performance with a fellow female guitarist on Instagram Live. On Episode 2, H.E.R. invited one of my biggest musical inspirations onto the show, Lianne La Havas. 






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‘The Devil All The Time’: Everyone's a sinner

The film, which stars big-name actors Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska and Bill Skarsgård, travels throughout space and time as it tells an intertwining ballad of unholy human evils. With each story comes tales of woe, death, terror, religious ecstasy and, above all, sin.


The Setonian
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Keep the Cameras Rolling: A post-COVID world

Consciously or unconsciously, the zeitgeist of living in a world with coronavirus could influence television and movies thematically.  Anxiety, frustration due to long-lasting lockdowns, and resentment toward a government that has mishandled its response to the disease will have an impact on the way screenwriters everywhere see the world, and how they characterize it.


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From METCO to code-switching, to life as a teenager, ‘Don’t Ask me Where I’m From’ discusses bias in education

“Don’t Ask me Where I’m From” deals with a variety of important subjects like code-switching, racism in education and the Metropolitian Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), a long-standing program to aid in the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools that has been both praised and criticized. Given these pertinent conversations, De Leon’s novel becomes both a work that young adults can love and learn from, but that adults and educators can read and learn from as well.


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Sufjan Stevens doesn’t peak with ‘The Ascension’

The album itself is strong, and doesn't fall flat in many areas, save for some disappointing lyrics. The melodies are well constructed and beautiful, and Stevens' vocals are consistently enjoyable. However, it simply lacks the resounding greatness of his past work.


The Setonian
Column

On the Big Screen: Tenet

If you know what you’re getting yourself into, you’ll have a great time with this film. It’s not Nolan’s magnum opus, but it can certainly hold its own against his other great movies.


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Phoebe Bridgers' 'Punisher' continues to guide our collective descent

Bridgers released her second studio album, "Punisher" (2020) on June 18 to universal acclaim, with many heralding the indie-emo-folk effort as the record of the summer. But, as temperatures have chilled and leaves have begun to change, it seems more and more apparent that this collection of songs is inseparably linked with the fall.


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Maeve's Music Mondays: Unboxing

So, here we are: at the beginning of what I believe will be a hopefully interesting, possibly odd, column. I can’t profess to know more than basic music theory, but I can promise my column will be ripe with the ramblings of a lifelong music-lover and shower-singer whose habitual humming, singing and lack-luster rapping skills somehow make her qualified to write for The Tufts Daily. 






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'Every Angel is terror': 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' reconsidered

What drove me back to watching Shinji Ikari driving a giant robot into the end of the world was, of course, not just the series’ spectacular visual and auditory features. Beyond the guises of a sci-fi apocalypse of giant robot fighting monsters or a voyage into Judeo-Christian mythologies, “Eva” at its core is about trauma and guilt, and our capacity to transcend them.