'Glee' raises suicide awareness in season finale
We don’t always ask or expect TV shows to consider serious topics, looking instead for easy entertainment that makes us laugh or cry, but afterward sets us back on our feet to go about our lives. So when a TV series does take on a current and significant issue it’s commendable, especially if it’s one […]
The Head and Heart has plenty of heart
The Head and the Heart sings with a style reminiscent of other, more well-known bands on their label like The Decemberists and Death Cab For Cutie, but the deeper voices of Josiah Johnson and Jonathan Russell (also the band’s founders) indicates the darker emotional underpinnings beneath their songs. Though bright at times, they inevitably return […]
AraabMUZIK creates percussive hip hop
Usually when you think of a concert, you think of guitars, drums, a jazz band, an orchestra. That wasn’t the case Thursday when Basic Physics and AraabMUZIK took the stage at Levin Ballroom, complete with six-foot-tall speaker towers and spinning light projections, blasting waves of synthetic hip hop sound that left concert-goers half deaf and […]
DÜNYA provides night of Turkish music
There are many things a college student can get up to on a Saturday night—yes, even at Brandeis—but of all those things, more than 100 students chose to go to the DÜNYA charity concert in Slosberg on Jan. 28. Lucky they did: DÜNYA didn’t disappoint. After the pre-concert talk where organization president Mehmet Ali Sanlikol […]
Undergraduate Art Show opens with student-only gallery
Large, distinctive eyes stand out from the round face of one painting, a mix of soft blue watercolors and thick paint; someone comments that it was drawn by taping a bowl to the wall and painting the distorted image. On the other side of the gallery is a torn piece of paper with dark marks […]
‘Fun Home’ author Bechdel shares story with first-years
Although first-years and orientation leaders may have been anticipating the first day of classes Wednesday night, they had one more learning experience to go through together. At 8 p.m. they filed into Spingold Theater, where Alison Bechdel spoke to them about her graphic novel: “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” the first-year mandated reading for the […]
View of Fall
The trip leader, Cass, wanted to find a view of fall, with the trees in their splendid orange and red and yellow colors spread on the slopes of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Robbie wanted to find a waterfall. I think we all wanted a break from the college bubble, away from work and […]
