Playing at Scullers Jazz Club on Wednesday, March 14, the Tufts Jazz Orchestra added another performance to its already impressive repertoire. Currently composed of 14 students ranging from first-years to seniors, the group blends experience and talent and has a history of musical achievement.Led ...
Since the publication of John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” (2012) and its 2014 film adaptation, the romanticism of cancer seems to have become a staple of American popular culture. Last month, Netflix released an original film entitled“Irreplaceable You” (2018)about a woman who, after ...
While today is the day that college basketball fans can gush over their smart picks or fuss over their busted brackets in the NCAA tournament, social media has provided the world an outlet for a different kind of March Madness: Kanye Madness. A bracket of 64 of the Chicago-raised rapper’s greatest ...
For many of us, dancing is an activity we dare not attempt, lest we somehow manage to dislocate all of our joints and break every bone in our bodies. However, for an experienced ballerina like first-year Elizabeth Gleeson, dance is more than an activity or even an art: It’s a lifestyle. In fact, ...
“A movie is an adventure, if one is willing to have faith in imagination.” These were the compelling and thought-provoking words spoken by Ava DuVernay, the director of “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018), in an introductory video message welcoming viewers to the film. However, for a movie to truly be ...
"Klimt and Schiele: Drawn" at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), which runs through May 28, fascinatingly presents rarely seen sketches from two famous Viennese artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele to commemorate the centennial of their deaths. These two artists influenced each other heavily ...
“For everything you gain, you lose something else.” This is one of my favorite opening quotes from “The Clone Wars” (2008–2014) animated series and it surely applies to this week’s Star Wars announcements. From big changes for the future of the saga to sad but necessary goodbyes, here are ...
Welcome to the latest episode of “Riverdale” (2017–) that for some reason also functioned as a 42-minute-long promotion for coming of age/coming out movie “Love, Simon” (2018)? This Riverdale gang-led infomercial felt mostly like filler, but that didn’t stop “Chapter 27: The Hills Have ...
We’re almost at the finish line! It's been two weeks of nonstop drama, and it’s time now to revisit our All Stars after episodes six and seven and talk about what to expect from the finale.BenDeLaCreme’s shocking self-elimination: The internet is just beginning to recover from episode six’s ...
An open-world zombie gamereleased in 2015, "Dying Light" is a fantastic game. The good aspects of the game highlight exactly what makes video games fun. However, despite this, "Dying Light" is not perfect. In fact, its flaws fall victim to a disappointing series of tropes plaguing modern ...
Albert Nichols didn’t know what he wanted upon graduating from Tufts in 2013, but he felt the world was his for the taking. Charismatic and fiercely invested in the lives of others, Nichols, now founder and CEO of subscription-based eatery Hall, had a personal edge over some other computer science ...
Visionary 20th-century artist Mark Rothko once claimed, “Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risk,” in a letter to the New York Times written with artist Adolph Gottlieb. Indeed, American playwright John Logan’s “Red” (2009), ...
Ten speakers will turn the Cohen Auditorium into a space of compassion and education by sharing private experiences and passions on March 11, when TEDxTufts hosts “re:Vision,” its fourth annual TED event since 2015.From a 1984 conference that celebrated the the interdisciplinary nature of technology, ...
Tamas Takata has always enjoyed creating things. Having planned on graduating early, Tamas is currently a third-year senior majoring in biochemical engineering and will continue his education at Tufts graduate school with the hope of receiving his master's degree in mechanical engineering. Tamas' ...
With break right around the corner, check out some of this season’s biggest releases that will be the perfect soundtrack for the week off!“Top Off” — DJ Khaled featuring Jay-Z, Future and BeyoncéIn perhaps what was one of 2017’s most unlikely turn of events, DJ Khaled finally became a star. ...
Following 2017’s Best Picture mix-up and a year of public revelations about sexual assault in Hollywood, Sunday’s Oscars ceremony was under immense pressure. How could a night defined by excess and self-congratulation be serious, humble and celebratory all at once?The result was a ceremony that ...
Hear ye, hear ye! For this column, I’d like to talk about Rian Johnson’s recent reveal of deleted scenes from “The Last Jedi” (2017). The film is set for its home entertainment rollout starting March 13 on different apps for download and continuing on March 27 for its Blu-ray debut.With “The ...
"The Party" (2017),released in the United States on Feb. 16, had potential. Affairs, death, politics, cocaine and the ultimate Chekhov's gun — the makings of an epic political comedy in a one-act dinner party setting — are all there. Unfortunately, the politics and humor fall ...
Members of International Club held their annual Parade of Nations event in Cohen Auditorium last Saturday evening, March 3. After months of hard work — planning outreach, filming promotional videos, organizing logistics and communicating with the International Center — club members, performers ...
Welcome back to another episode of Is This Thing On? Today we have scheduled a seemingly impossible musical combination: EDM and… country? Wait, is this allowed? I never thought I would use those genres in the same sentence, but Zedd is trying to prove me otherwise.
