If you’ve ever had the great misfortune of seeing the Brandeis Judges mascot in-person (or if you’ve ever gotten a 404 error on the Brandeis website), you will know that our weirdly fuzzy, weirdly large...

In “The Lost Story” by Meg Shaffer, two boys, Jeremy and Rafe, go missing for six months after getting lost on a school field trip to a forest in West Virginia. During that time, they...

Since our last publication, the Track and Field teams have been busy, participating in four different meets. On Jan. 25, both the men’s and women’s teams traveled to the Wheaton College Lyon Invitational. On Jan....

Ok, it’s time for us to say it: We at the Hoot are glad that the Chiefs dynasty is over. For everyone that was hoping to see the dreaded “three-peat,” their hopes were dashed as...

I suppose I should preface this review with a few disclaimers. First of all, I have not actually completed “Factorio”—I got the game fairly recently and just haven’t had the time or energy to finish...

The Jewish Bund at Brandeis, an organization focused on “[c]ampus action and building radical space at Brandeis,” recently held a series of events, including a Shabbat gathering on Jan. 31, a funeral procession for the...

Since the last game of theirs that we covered, the men’s basketball team has played in six University Athletic Association (UAA) games. Like the women’s basketball team, they traveled for the first four of these...

2024 was quite the year for music. The Grammy Awards aired on Sunday, Feb. 2 and had a lot of interesting results, both in my mind and in a large part of the music community....

“Anora” (2024), despite its disappointing Golden Globes performance (where it lost in all five of its nominated categories), has had a monumental weekend, sweeping the top prizes at the Critics Choice Awards, Directors Guild of...