Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
It’s not easy celebrating the life of someone as well known and influential as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Maybe that’s why more than ten campus organizations, joined together to organize the third annual MLK Celebration spanning the course of four days. However a Monday night show, urging social justice and hope for the future, […]
Paul Thomas Anderson has never made a perfect movie. He has made three spectacular, if decidedly flawed, films. Boogie Nights was the epic, stylish saga of the 70s porn industry. Magnolia was a meditation on love, despair, and coincidence. Punch Drunk Love was a simple love story, filtered through a screen of extreme innocence. P.T. […]
This winter movie season, we were lucky enough to see two phenomenal novels adapted into films. Atonement and The Kite Runner provide readers with multi-layered characters living with and learning from past actions. Both use the past transgressions of children nearly as a foreshadowing of major violent events of war and invasions. The actions of […]
A lot of “Gansta Rap” pisses me off. Why are there so many songs about nothing except sex, drugs and money? Didn’t Jay-Z say it all with “Big Pimpin’?” Furthermore, most artists aren’t even creative with their approaches anymore. As a personal non-enthusiast (to say the least) of mainstream gangster rap, I’ve always made a […]
Editor’s Note: The first installment of this story appeared in the Jan. 18 issue of Diverse City and detailed Khava’s discovery that she possesses special powers that allow her to move objects without touching them. So I left our apartment. Our poor, old, ugly apartment. I hate that thing, diary! I’m the only girl in […]
Imagine being given a creative assignment. In this assignment, you are given five minutes to tell a story about love in Paris. Your story can be about any of the aspects of love, but you must tell your story in five minutes. This assignment, or perhaps a better word would be challenge, was given to […]
January is usually the month where television comes back from its mid-season break. In a normal year, all your favorite scripted shows have plenty of fresh episodes to finish off the overarching storylines. However, this television season is a little different. With the writers and television executives still fighting over who gets what money in […]
Boston Indoor Games Saturday, Jan. 26 2008, 5:30 p.m. Reggie Lewis State Track Athletic Ctr 1350 Tremont St., Roxbury Crossing, MA The Reebok Boston Indoor Games host superstar Olympic medalists from all over the country. It has played host to five World Records, nine American Records and 14 National Records for countries from around the […]
Antelope with Brittain Ashford! Friday, Jan. 25, 2008, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Chums Check out the Punk, Rock ‘n’ Roll Club’s latest show featuring Antelope and Brittain Ashford. Antelope is a D.C. trio that plays minimalist post-punk with touches of funk, hip-hop, and twee pop. Brittain Ashford is a New York singer/songwriter with a […]
