Culture
MGMT
MGMT returns with ‘Little Dark Age’
Everyone knows MGMT for three songs: "Kids," "Electric Feel," and "Time to Pretend." All three appear on their 2007 debut album, "Oracular Spectacular," and MGMT hated that. The music was meant to be sarcastic, not commercial, and so the band retreated deeper into a neo-psychedelic retaliation hole. The effect of their retreat was immediately seen […]
Justin Timberlake
Not Vanilla: Big-time halftime disappointment
This year, when I sat down to watch the Super Bowl, I was expecting two things: a decent game and a memorable halftime show. I was pretty excited, especially knowing that the halftime performer was Justin Timberlake. He’d been out of the limelight for a good bit, so I was excited to see what he […]
Improv
False Advertising shows promise in its debut show
You remember how in every In Between The Lines review we put out, it always calls IBTL “UR’s student-run improv troupe”? Well, that’s not true anymore. It’s now one of UR’s student-run improv troupes. As in now there are two. The new troupe, made up of first-years Alaina Attanasio and Benny Srajer, and sophomores Louis Herman, Devin […]
Hasan Minhaj
Interview: Hasan Minhaj talks career, family, and inspirations
Hasan Minhaj, the stand-up comedian and "The Daily Show" correspondent, performed at Winterfest on Saturday, February 3. We talked to him backstage before the show. Read More
Eastman
‘Les Enfants Terribles’ tells a twisted tale
In a small, intimate “black box” theater at Eastman School of Music, Philip Glass’ opera “Les Enfants Terribles,” based on Jean Cocteau’s novel of the same name, was performed on Feb. 2. A thin, moonlit screen separated the stage and the audience, and when the curtains opened it poured over the theater. Two beds, a […]
Not Vanilla
Not Vanilla: Decorating your room can be a like filling a canvas
I remember, during freshman year, looking with a bit of excitement and a lot of anxiety at the walls and empty surfaces of my dorm room as if they were blank canvases. It was an unprecedented opportunity to start fresh. With a couple of items and a decent idea, I could set up this whole […]
College Feminists
‘The Vagina Monologues’ is uncomfortable and important
It’s about time someone talked about how hard it really is to find your vagina. I thought I was the only one who struggled to put in a tampon. At the College Feminists–sponsored production of Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues,” which was performed on Feb. 2 in Strong Auditorium, it was definitely a relief […]
Winterfest Weekend
Hasan Minhaj brings more than jokes for Winterfest
It was below freezing outside Strong Auditorium on Saturday evening, but you wouldn’t have been able to tell by the students and visitors lined up outside for a performance by stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj. As they waited, audience members swapped recollections of their favorite bits from Minhaj’s “Daily Show” segments and from his Netflix special, […]
Music
Sigma Nu rocks campus with Battle of the Bands
Last Thursday night marked the sixth-annual Battle of the Bands, a charity event hosted by the brothers of Sigma Nu. The night’s purpose was to raise money to support St. Jude’s Research Hospital, an organization that specializes in treating cancer in young children and teens. During the preceding week, Sigma Nu, at Wilson Commons, collected […]
Not Vanilla
Not Vanilla: What makes a restaurant good?
With the grand opening of the new branch of Tai Chi Bubble Tea, there has been considerable hype about having a cute new place where people can get off campus. The new eating spot has got me thinking, reader: What makes a good restaurant? Of course, the first rule is that it has to have […]
