‘ArchAndroid’ features new talent: Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae’s debut full-length album “The ArchAndroid” begins with the sounds of an orchestra tuning its instruments in a concert hall, an audacious promise of a work epic in scope. Monae isn’t just teasing us with symphonic pretenses; the opening track is an actual orchestral overture, recalling the bombastic soundtracks of 1960s science fiction films. […]
Early Music Ensemble rocks the Renaissance
Two weeks ago, the Brandeis Music Department was catapulted into the 1500s, and it still has yet to return. Following on the heels of the University Chamber Choir’s exploration of Renaissance-era a cappella, the Brandeis Early Music Ensemble presented “Mixed Blessings: Beatitudes and Benedictions from Another Age” to small, intimate audiences on Sunday, April 25, […]
Festival shows art is the ‘Source’
Ordinarily rain spoils outdoor events, but Wednesday’s rainy weather felt appropriate for the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts’ opening ceremony, which celebrated the symbolic importance of water as it unveiled a temporary installation by artist-in-residence Michael Dowling. The festival officially presented Dowling’s “Source/ReSource,” a temporary installation constructed out of copper and stone, to […]
Chico Colvard presents a ‘Family Affair’
For the average member of a family that has been rocked by abuse, it isn’t exactly easy talking publically about your own situation. Filmmaker Chico Colvard is not average in this regard, as he spent the last eight years crafting a documentary titled “Family Affair” which delves into the way his own family has handled […]
Men’s tennis finishes fourth at UAA Championships
On the courts of Carnegie Mellon University last weekend, the Brandeis men’s tennis team wrapped up a successful season at the University Athletic Association’s yearly tournament. The Judges, who entered the tournament with an 8-8 record, left with a fourth place finish, the team’s best under fifth-year coach Ben Lamanna. The journey for fifth-seeded Brandeis […]
Women’s track and field places fifth, men seventh at outdoor UAA Championships
In a weekend full of stiff competition, the Brandeis track and field teams stepped up their game and walked away from the University Athletic Association Championships in St. Louis with three championship performances, one meet record, two school records, two NCAA qualifying standards, and five all UAA honors. “The amazing success our athletes had this […]
Growing up with golf
I remember a warm spring day. I walked onto the mat tee—a green square made of beat-up Astroturf—and carefully placed a small white ball onto the rubber tee. About 60 yards ahead of me, a yellow flag with a large number one blew in the wind. Dad sat on the bench behind me, watching as […]
Baseball: Judges beat Bowdoin in marathon game, fall to Keene St.
The Brandeis baseball team presented fans with a lot of excitement this week, earning a come from behind victory against the Bowdoin Polar Bears (21-11), the seventh ranked team in the region. The Judges (11-22) claimed a 17-15 victory in their last regular season home game despite trailing by seven runs in the eighth inning. […]
So long and thanks for all the fish
My interest in journalism started while I was studying abroad in Australia. Up to that point I had planned on taking the most popular path among my peers: law school. After all, I have always loved writing and, on more than one occasion, my father has declared that I can talk my way into or […]
In Memoriam: Saul G. Cohen, 93
Professor Saul G. Cohen, Brandeis’ first chemistry department chair, dean of faculty and university professor, died last Saturday due to heart failure. Cohen was 93. Current Chemistry Department Chair Irving Epstein described Cohen as a “man of enormous breadth of intellect and interest, not only in science but in literature, politics and many other areas.” […]
Helping Haiti: A semester summary
The Brandeis Haiti Relief Effort, co-chaired by Nate Rosenblum ’10 and Shaina Gilbert ’10, has worked throughout this semester to take part in the global campaign to aid Haiti after the earthquake that took place there Jan. 12. As the semester winds down, the Brandeis Haiti Relief Effort is growing closer and closer to its […]
Moving beyond skinny jeans and shaggy hair
Quick: name five female artists you listen to on a regular basis. Now name five artists of color. I came to the somewhat startling realization, as someone who identifies as a feminist and is interested in anti-racism, that the vast majority of music I own has been produced by white dudes. Most of it is […]
Here comes the SunDeis
After almost failing to return this year for its seventh outing, the annual SunDeis Film Festival debuts its slate of films this weekend. Because this year’s festival did not receive its usual funding from Student Activities due to a budget crunch, its future had been in question at the beginning of the semester. However, after […]
From ballet to Bollywood
Reaching your senior year, especially the second semester, is the mid-life crisis of college. After throwing myself into academics and extracurricular activities for the past seven semesters, I began to wind down my commitments at the beginning of this semester and thought of all the other great opportunities I would have loved to have taken […]
In memory of our youth
It was a lonely day at Wendy’s. Not just a slow day, although the place was almost empty. There was a different atmosphere about it. People sat at their booths and tables alone, silently munching on their food with their heads down. Even the cashiers looked glum as they fiddled with their hats and aprons, […]
Battling the lobsterbacks at Lexington
I shuddered when I saw the Red Coats. Though more than 200 years shielded me from physical harm, the mere sight of their lobsterbacks made me shiver as I watched the battle re-enactors march onto the Lexington Battle Green Monday morning. I knew that their muskets were loaded with blanks; that the soldiers were actors […]
‘South Park’ celebrates 200th episode with controversy
“South Park,” a show whose earliest origins stem from a college project of creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, celebrated its 200th episode last week. Topics covered so far this season include sex addiction, banned literature, medicinal marijuana and Facebook. Episode 200 and its follow-up do not fail to entertain as the denizens of South […]
Chatting with filmmaker Chico Colvard
Director Chico Colvard has received great acclaim for his inaugural film, the documentary “Family Affair,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Oprah Winfrey’s new cable network OWN. “Family Affair” documents his family’s coming to terms with the discovery that Colvard’s father had sexually abused his sister, a revelation […]
‘Spelling Bee’ worthy of buzz
There is no rite of passage quite as wholesome and all-American as the spelling bee. Brandeisians got the opportunity to relive their own spelling bee days with Tympanium Euphorium’s presentation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a one-act musical comedy that humorously probes the neuroses and dilemmas that plague one group of eager […]
Golf team heads into UAA Championships with momentum
The Brandeis golf team finished in third place out of 16 teams at the Worcester State Invitational on Monday in their last match before the UAA League tournament. Charles Sacks ’11 led the Judges, finishing in a tie for seventh place out of 78 athletes, with a score of 76 at four-over-par. Sacks has been […]