The first article I ever wrote for The Hoot was a review of the latest “Indiana Jones” movie, “Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny.” To summarize: it was not a good movie. But since...

On March 20 and March 21, Lev BenAvram ’25 went to Penn State University to participate at the NCAA Fencing Nationals. On the first day, he placed 10th, and on the second day, he placed...

Oh my god, I get it now. By “it,” I mean vinyl records. Over the past few months, I may have developed a bit of an addiction to collecting vinyls. This isn’t the healthiest habit....

Arthur Holmberg, the Blanche, Barbara and Irving Laurie Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University, has died at the age of 80. An email sent to the Brandeis community by Carol Fierke, the Provost and...

Consisting of frontman Brandon Flowers, guitarist Dave Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr., the Las Vegas-based band, The Killers, are perhaps one of the greatest rock bands of this century, but sadly,...

On Jan. 20, 2025, Brandeis University celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In an email sent out on Jan. 13, Assistant Director of Community Engagement and Leadership Taisha White, Chaplain & Coordinator of Christian Life...

The academic year is ramping up again, with more tests, quizzes, papers and projects looming menacingly over the horizon. But never fear! There are literally endless opportunities for you to procrastinate, wasting precious time that...

Warning: contains full spoilers for “Megalopolis.” Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is certainly a movie that exists.  It’s hard to figure out where to start when describing this bizarre failure of a film. It genuinely is....

Every once in a while, you stumble across a piece of media that you never knew existed; an undiscovered masterpiece of fiction. Last year, this happened when I watched Dune: Part One for the first...

On the morning of Sept. 25, 2024, Ronald D. Liebowitz formally announced his resignation as the President of Brandeis University, a post he had held since 2015. The resignation, reported on by national media outlets...