Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
With all the commotion surrounding the decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize, I can only imagine how that decision was made… At a meeting of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway: The portrait of Alfred Nobel occupied a prominent position high on the wall of the Norwegian Nobel Committee room. […]
There’s poetry, and then there’s slam poetry. It’s easy to cast off the latter as a contemporary subset of a traditional form of expression. But some slam—the kind overwrought with lofty metaphors and melodramatic pretense—is so far from Shakespeare and so borderline hip-hop that it becomes an entirely separate entity. Though slam is deeply rooted […]
It’s always risky business going to see a band that hasn’t released a hit single since before you were born. Yet when I heard that the Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays were playing at the House of Blues, I wasn’t bothered in the least by their vintage status. After all, both groups are much less […]
Given the number of May-December romances in Hollywood lately (Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Kim Cattrall and whoever), it was only a matter of time until art imitated life in the form of ABC’s new show on Wednesday nights, “Cougar Town.” This sitcom, from “Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence and “Scrubs” collaborator Kevin Biegel, focuses on […]
Adapting a 10-line Maurice Sendak children’s classic into a Spike Jonze visual epic that’s endlessly delayed poses a number of problems, not the least of which involves finding an appropriate soundtrack for the beloved book. Currently “Where the Wild Things Are” is being aggressively marketed with a gorgeous trailer backed by the Arcade Fire’s “Wake […]
This year, ¡AHORA! celebrated its 21st anniversary of Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM), a month dedicated to the great contributions Latinos have made to our nation. This year’s HHM theme, “Mi Historia: Unificacion de Culturas” (My Story: Unification of Cultures), represents the many facets of our culture and commemorates unity of diversity. As such, we found […]
