Culture

2018 Campus Times summer playlist

The Campus Times staff recommends their picks for their favorite song from the summer. The songs range from contemporary to 19th-century impressionist. Read More

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ — When the trailer’s better than the movie

My relationship with the Marvel Cinematic Universe is casual, at best. I engage with it a couple of times in a given year. But like most one-night stands, the MCU’s residue has lingered beyond a few hours. Read More

Student music duo ‘Candy Isle’ makes its own scene

If you were searching for a female acoustic indie-folk-pop duo based right here at UR, you’d be happy to find Candy Isle, comprised of seniors Kat Bakrania and Lydia Dake. Read More

Down to their last slice, ‘Pizza Prty’ looks back

On the evening of May 1, two weeks before the final broadcast of their weekly music show “Pizza Prty” on WRUR, seniors Carrie Taschman and Toby Kashket are dealing with a more present issue: Kashket cannot stop giggling on air. Read More

A documentary fosters collaboration between students and professor

Professor Daphon D. Ho premiered on May 3 his documentary film “Living History: Remembering the ‘Forgotten’ Korean War,” which follows Ho’s  spring 2016 course on the Korean War. Read More

UR Celtic celebrates “St. Paddy’s Day” in April

This year, we were graced not with one, but two St. Paddy’s Days thanks to UR Celtic’s Irish stepdance performance this past weekend in Feldman Ballroom. The showcase was filled with both traditional Irish dances as well as a several choreographed by the members of the organization. The show was also a perfect balance between […]

Tinashe and Princess Nokia radiate strength

"Dandelion Day" and "empowering" are two phrases you might not normally use in the same sentence, but with Tinashe’s and Princess Nokia’s D-Day performances, things changed. Although different in musical style and content, Tinashe and Nokia offered performances steeped in a shared feminine power. As her lone drummer boomed along with the speakers’ bass and […]

UR Symphony Orchestra showcases soloist

The UR Symphony Orchestra concert in Strong this past Saturday started out soft, mysterious, and a little sneaky, with the energetic sound of the violins setting off the performance with Johannes Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture,” later revealed to the audience to be a collection of drinking songs of the time. Rachel Waddell, the group’s music […]

Not Vanilla: The Joys of Instagram

Reader, perhaps you have not heard this app called Instagram — it’s something young people are quite into. When I downloaded Instagram, my impressions of the app made me think it would be filled with aesthetic images of the people I followed and the occasional beauty tutorial. What I realized is that Instagram is truly […]

In student VR film, see sexual harassment up close and personal

Visitors slipped on headsets last Wednesday and found themselves transported into the college life of a young woman in “Through Her Eyes,” a student-made virtual reality film whose Rettner Hall premiere was accompanied by a women’s empowerment fair that day. The film opens with the main character (and the viewer) waking up in her dorm […]