Culture
YouTube
Finding beauty in mundanity
kenvinnewsman56 highlights an exciting new frontier for the Internet, in which a YouTube personality simply acts as himself within the matrix of mundane day-to-day life. Read More
Oscars
Oscar watch: A Christmas ‘Carol’
Giving into the charms of Todd Haynes’ “Carol” is kind of like falling in love: you begin to slowly surrender, until you do so all at once. Read More
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‘All the President’s Men’ deserves a rewatch
Though the book is far more detailed and exact, the 1976 film–starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford–expresses the paranoia of the era in all of its creeping eeriness. Read More
Golden Globes
Celebrity worship is fleeting
Two weeks ago, we witnessed the unexpected dethroning of Queen Jennifer Lawrence when she called out a reporter at the Golden Globes for looking at his phone. Read More
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Movies
Goodbye, Alan Rickman
Not since the death of Robin Williams has an actor so ingrained in our childhood passed away. Read More
YouTube
ReportOfTheWeek wins for simplicity
The entertainingly bizarre YouTube channel ReportOfTheWeek centers around reviews of the mundane. Read More
#OscarsSoWhite
With #OscarsSoWhite, we’re having the wrong debate
It’s reductive and rather unhelpful to cry foul at the exclusion of people of color if the performances don’t really warrant that reaction. Read More
Bowie
Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ is fitting punctuation for an iconic career
If “Blackstar” tells us anything, it’s that Bowie wanted to be remembered for being himself, not Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane. Read More
Theatre
‘Yerma’, the dark tale
UR's International Theatre Program, with their talented cast and original director Gisela Cardenas' inspired staging choices, artfully tells the unsettling story of "Yerma." Read More
Music
Wynton Marsalis shines a light
Jazzman Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra visit the Eastman School of Music for a rousing holiday concert, and guest vocalist Audrey Shakir talks about her career and jazz inspirations. Read More