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Archive for 2009

Volleyball off to a strong start

It seems the successful pre-season training has paid off for the Brandeis women’s volleyball team. The girls won their game Tuesday against Babson 3-0 to start off the season with a win. The set scores were 25-18, 25-22, and 25-14, all in favor of Brandeis. This win was especially significant because it was the 100th […]


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Flaming Lips concert extravaganza lives up to stellar reputation in Boston

In spite of its ostentatiously bizarre antics, the Flaming Lips is a band that aims to please. For those of you uninitiated in the cult of the Flaming Lips, the band was started, humbly enough, in 1983 by the Coyne brothers and their friends in Norman, Oklahoma. As evidenced by a wonderful early compilation title, […]


I was Rocky Horror­-fied, and lived to tell about it

While standing in line among the slew of fanboys, drama geeks and cross-dressers at the Chelsea Clearview Cinema in New York this past summer, I found myself asking, “What do all of these people have in common?” and moreover, “What the hell am I doing here?” Only one occasion attracts a congregation of weirdness as […]


Hipster-baiting “Summer” soundtrack fails to inspire

“(500) Days of Summer” is a cute movie, but sometimes seems more like a marketing ploy targeted to young twentysomethings with affectations for vintage clothes and the Smiths. The premise of the film, centered around aimless and ambitionless postgraduates, has been around for decades, but it’s been somewhat aggressively commercialized since Zach Braff’s “Garden State,” […]


My big fat “Greek” repeat: ABC show’s season 3 premier fails to please

As the majority of us start off a new school year, ABC Family’s “Greek” starts off its third season right where it left off – and not in a good way. The previous season finale of the show, which centers around members of Greek life at the fictional Cyprus Rhodes University, left off with Rusty, […]


Rediscovering a classic novel

I have had tremendous luck recently with reading good books. As some of you may know, I was abroad last year in England, where coursework is sparse and good weather even sparser. These fabulous conditions were perfect for me to resume my childhood love of reading for pleasure. Now that I have read so many […]


Dr. George Tiller was murdered, and we need to talk about it

The media response to the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, has been nothing short of disheartening. Far too often the mainstream media has taken at face value the press releases put out by groups against reproductive rights. Anti-abortion organizations have almost uniformly condemned the killing while maintaining their opposition to abortion, […]