On Saturday, Oct. 18, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to see the Brandeis Theater Department’s production of “Dance Nation,” Clare Barron’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, directed by Michelle M. Aguillon. I went...
Let’s do a thought experiment. Think of a video game. I’ll give you 10 seconds. OK, now, does that game have a protagonist? Can you name them anything from Dennis to Poopface? Have you ever...
One might ask, why are you, an 18-year-old American, watching British cable? And that is a great question that can be answered in everyone’s least favorite way: COVID-19. As a little sixth grader, like many...
The sun is gone. The stars shine bright. I seek revenge. Fragile cuts of coal line the shelves, marking the warped wood with black scratches. Already grey and flaking, I place them within a...
I’m back with yet another concert review, and it’s a band readers of our last edition should be fairly familiar with by now. After traveling back home to Maryland for a few days, I trekked...
This week I am really taking full advantage of The Hoot’s promise to print whatever its staff writers want to write. Does the target audience exist for this piece? The hell if I know. Will...
When your eyelids are heavy Sleep breaking down the door When was the last time I slept When the knock on the door Sounds like screaming Leave me alone When your stomach roils You can’t...
It is Week Two in the tent, and as we are reminded by Allison’s rather ominous voiceover, “11 bakers remain.” Week Two, per longstanding Bake Off tradition, is Biscuit Week. The opening confessionals pass without...
Welcome back everyone! Last year, I started writing reviews of all the Indiana Jones movies, beginning with the original trilogy of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade. These are thrilling,...
On Oct. 31, 2019, people all around the world woke up, ready to celebrate Halloween. I was in eighth grade, and in true middle school fashion, was in the thick of my emo phase, harnessing...
“We’re Twenty One Pilots and so are you!” is a familiar statement. It’s what frontman Tyler Joseph has ended several concerts with since the band formed in 2009, but also one that can be quite...
Starting in May and ending in August, the Brandeis school year has returned from vacation (and for those who stuck around during the heat, God bless your air conditioning units). But even as the last...
Okay, say it with me now: we are so back!!! After a year, “The Great British Bake Off” returns to us. I am back for my fourth and final season of recapping the highs and...
“I WAS RIGHT!!!!”–-A text that my friends have been seeing in their inboxes more often than they would normally expect. But as I’ve worked my way through “Severance” over the past few weeks, and as...
There is a place. On the other side of the wall. I can’t tell you what that place looks like. I see it in my dreams. A castle. It’s made of marble. And millions of...
My freshman year at Brandeis, I fell into a bit of a “reading slump.” With so much required reading to do for class, it was hard to motivate myself to also read for pleasure. However,...
In case you haven’t gathered from some of my friends’ articles, this edition of the Brandeis Hoot will be my last one as Arts Editor. I still have one more year at Brandeis and I...
2025 has had a rough start to movies. While most contemporary audiences are likely still discussing the financial and critical failure of Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World” or laughing over the “chicken jockey” memes...
