Culture X wows audiences despite changes
This year, Culture X was included as part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Needless to say, Culture X is the largest and one of the best shows held on campus. This year’s show was no different, with more than the usual handful of outstanding acts. Another more noticeable change, however: Spingold […]
Improv Collective performs annual show
Improvisational music remains one of the most exhilarating forms of performing art. Artists who can tame its fickle muse have the power to manifest the flotsam of a group’s collective unconscious, exploding traditional notions of creative conception. When they fail, however, the results sound more like a bad acid trip. When I went to see […]
Spoon's rocky road to fame
You know those bands whose mainstream popularity is helped greatly by its music’s appearance on a television show or movie? Like The Shins and Garden State or Kimya Dawson and Juno. Well, Spoon is one of those bands and its breakthrough was thanks to The O.C. After relatively rough beginnings, Texan indie rock band Spoon […]
Couture meets the mass market
Think of it as the fashion world’s way of “slumming it.” More and more high-end fashion designers are putting to their thousand-dollar designs on hold to design for the masses. For instance, this month, British textile designer Celia Birtwell released a line of flowy blouses and dresses exclusively in Express stores, and this is a […]
The Constantines return
The Constantines are one hell of a band. Three albums into their career, they have won over a devoted cult following and critical acclaim. 2001’s self-titled debut was a blazing set of post-punk and Fugazi-inspired songs, both revolutionary and sentimental. Beneath the fire-branding tracks, Constantines contained some small-scale gems. The scary crawl of “Hyacinth Blues” […]
Life
The pillars of the world are crumbling, Falling into the darker ocean as they left the darkness of earth Light, white, blindingly beautiful light The kind that is pure and unkind in its harsh illumination of reality Darkness seeps in uninvited, obscuring the light, Whose bright life brings truth to our eyes. What have we […]
See Kanye glow
On April 16, 2008 Kanye West began his Glow in the Dark Tour 2008. It featured performances from N.E.R.D., Rihanna, and Lupe Fiasco among others and included stops in California, Seattle, New York and, of course, Kanye’s hometown of Chicago. As we all know, Kanye likes everything he does to be over-the-top. The Glow in […]
Music's everywhere
For music fans, perhaps the first glimpses of the upcoming summer festival season can be seen in Indio, CA, where the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will occur a week from today. Here, fans will brave 100-degree temperatures and see a slew of bands that are all over the map. Jack Johnson, Prince, Portishead, […]
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Mandy Carter discusses activism and identity
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Mandy Carter gave a short speech followed by an informal discussion with students on coalition building, activism on campus, and her experience as an African American, lesbian social justice activist. The event took place on Wednesday night and was sponsored by TRISK, the Women of Color Alliance, and the Feminist Majority […]
Committee recommends ceiling for ticket charges
Sunday April 13, the Free Admissions Policy Review Committee released a report regarding this semester’s free admissions policy to events funded by F-board. Union Treasurer Choon Woo Ha ’08 created the committee to create a policy recommendation. The committee included Assistant Treasurer and committee chair Jahfree Duncan ’09, Assistant Treasurer Deb Laufer ’09, Jennifer Diakun […]
Journalist Gelbspan addresses reality of climate change
In Earthfest’s concluding event, journalist and environmental advocate Ross Gelbspan discussed his perspective on climate change. In front of a small crowd in Lown Auditorium Wednesday evening, Gelbspan introduced his topic as “God awful.” Gelbspan, a former editor at The Boston Globe, began reporting on environmental issues after learning of a cover-up by oil and […]
Brandeis alum Nelson Figueroa ‘96 returns to the major leagues, picks up victory for the Mets
As the reporters filed out of what was once the locker room of the New York Jets in the underbelly of Shea Stadium, victorious New York Mets pitcher Nelson Figueroa ’96 sat with his wife Alisa at his side, his four year old daughter Renee happily chirping on his lap, and hundreds of family and […]
Brandeis Softball dominates MIT in doubleheader sweep
What a difference a year makes. After spending last year escaping from the mire surrounding the fall out of former coach Mary Sullivan’s dismissal and adjusting to a new coach in Jessica Johnson, Brandeis Judges softball’s April 16th sweep of MIT, 9-1 and 11-0 now gives them their 19th and 20th wins of the season. […]
NBA playoff look: Dominant Celtics with strong chance to win Championship
This Saturday, the wait is over. The NBA playoffs begin. This year there are many questions. Which team will come out of the strong West? Is this the year of Kobe? Is it time to end a 20+ year drought and bring the NBA Championship back to Boston? Since Day One, the Eastern Conference has […]
Men’s tennis falls to MIT
Falling victim to a sweep in doubles play left the Brandeis Judges men’s tennis squad at the mercy of visiting MIT. They did not get a reprieve as the Engineers left Judges on the losing end of a 6-3 defeat. The double’s pairings of Scott Schulman ’09/Simon Miller ’11, Steve Neiman ’11/Seth Rogers ’10 and […]
Men’s and Women’s Track team yields strong finishes in George Davis Invite
The weather was hit or miss this past Saturday as the men’s and women’s Track and Field teams traveled to UMass-Lowell for the George Davis Invite. The Judges did relatively well in the second competition of their outdoor season and had numerous individual standout performances. The men performed relatively strongly in the field, but they […]
Over lunch, students and professors learn the truth about each other
During the last conversation with her advisor, David Cunningham, SOC, Kimberlee Bachman ’08 discussed chocolate and baseball because “they are two topics that I enjoy speaking with him about.” Not your typical office hour type of conversation, right? That’s because this conversation occurred as a part of Take Your Professor to Lunch Week, Bachman’s initiative. […]
So what are the Sakharov Archives?
If one looks closely at the floor diagrams on the walls of Goldfarb 1, the area of the library currently occupied by the Brandeis University Women’s Committee is labeled “Sakharov Archives.” Until 2004, Brandeis University housed a collection of papers (totaling eighty-one linear feet) of letters, manuscripts, and photographs that belonged to Andrei Sakharov, who […]
With seniors leaving, some clubs find themselves endangered
Ben Douglas ’08 knows all about what it feels like to watch a club wither away and disappear. He’s seen it too many times, as a member of Digital Arts Club, Pirate Club, and, hopefully not joining the list soon, Gravity Magazine, a humor publication. Gravity Magazine still exists, but it and other clubs in […]
