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Leaving Domestic Spheres of Thought

“Personally, I think the Cuban revolution did a lot of good. I really like Castro,” my host mom says in Spanish on one of my first nights studying abroad... Read more

By Isabel Echarte September 4, 2014

Voltaggio’s boxed lunches infuse suburbia with hipster pretense

Walk in, and a metal bucket might fall on your head. Walk out, and you are engulfed by the hypnotic hum of the American shopping experience. This is Lunchbox, restaurateur... Read more

By Sabrina Kayser September 4, 2014

‘Bountiful Waters’ coy, fluid exhibition

The traditional Japanese landscape evokes both strength and elegance, the resolute and the graceful. These dueling feelings were omnipresent throughout my time at the Smithsonian’s new exhibition “Bountiful Waters,” exploring... Read more

By Emmanuel Elone September 4, 2014

‘You Are Beautiful’ Campaigns Setting Ugly Standards

“If you can squeeze it, we can freeze it!” If driving through beauty-obsessed Los Angeles alone didn’t make me feel bad enough about myself, seeing this ad for liposuction plastered... Read more

By Lara Fishbane September 4, 2014

‘I Can’t Allow My Grief to Stop Me From Living My Life’

My dad and I had been at the hospital for a few hours when it started to rain. The doctors had just turned off all the machines and the... Read more

By Jeffrey Lin September 4, 2014

The Importance of Being Earnest: Modern Authenticity

As the world becomes increasingly populated, it simultaneously becomes increasingly competitive. The college admissions process is a kind of funnel for this competitiveness, a checkpoint through which only a... Read more

By Sabrina Kayser September 4, 2014

Delightful Duplass rekindles second chances in The One I Love

A disturbingly surreal weekend getaway serves as a young married couple’s attempt to rekindle their passion in The One I Love. Sent by a marriage counselor to spend three days... Read more

By John Buckley September 4, 2014

Under the Covers: Somewhere over the rainbow, the color gray is the warmest of all

When we look at our lives in hindsight, we tend to see the events as having fallen into place, like puzzle pieces naturally forming their way into the bigger picture—except... Read more

By Micaela Beltran September 4, 2014

Reel Talk: Is the Bechdel Test enough to save the female lead?

The film industry, like the majority of industries, has a female problem. That’s probably not the first time you’ve heard that, but people have started to try to objectively assess... Read more

By Dayana Morales Gomez September 4, 2014

Critical Voices: The Kooks, Listen

Fans of previous Kooks albums, beware––this record is not the vintage, 60s-meets-90s British rock that would be welcome in a dingy London nightclub in either decade. Lacking their usual unified... Read more

By Riley Mellen September 4, 2014

Critical Voices: Sinkane, Mean Love

Sinkane’s second LP release, Mean Love, is a jungle of dense, atmospheric instrumentals and smooth vocals. Sinkane, the solo project of Ahmed Gallab of Caribou and of Montreal, draws influences... Read more

By Ida Dhanuka September 4, 2014

This Week in Baseball: The Slow March to Chaos

Cole Hamels (mostly) threw a no-hitter yesterday and Milwaukee fans are burning their jerseys; it’s time for your weekly roundup of America’s pastime. The No-hitter Cole Hamels of the Phillies... Read more

By Joe Laposata September 3, 2014

A Case for the Classics:Seven Samurai

A small village, barely surviving on its meager rice and barley fields, is beset by bandits. Given a promise of another raid after the harvest season, the villagers desperately plan... Read more

By Andrew Gutman September 3, 2014

NBA Preview: The Atlantic Division

To start the NBA season preview, one might as well begin with the most depressing division in the NBA, the remarkably mediocre Atlantic Division. The woeful Atlantic features a second... Read more

By Max Borowitz September 3, 2014

Critical Voices: In the Valley Below, The Belt

It is finally here. After over a year since the release of their debut single “Peaches,” duo band In the Valley Below has released their first official LP titled, The... Read more

By Michael Bergin September 3, 2014

MLBeat: The Rundown on Rose

25 years is an unfathomably long amount of time to a 20-year old college kid. Trying to understand a period of time that stretches further than all of my minutes... Read more

By Steven Criss September 2, 2014

A House of Cards : DC and the Media

Note: This article contains spoliers from the second season of House of Cards. William Shakespeare’s Richard III has sat on my bookshelf gathering dust all summer. In the spirit of those... Read more

By Ian Philbrick September 2, 2014

A Tale of Two Uniteds

When Sir Alex Ferguson stepped down as manager of Manchester United on August 8, 2013, supporters of the Red Devils could never have imagined that their beloved team would turn... Read more

By Robbie Ponce September 2, 2014

The Cinematic Gems of the Summer

It’s difficult to describe this year in terms of film, because for the most part, the first half ’s been relatively lackluster, with only a few “hits” worth mentioning, such... Read more

By John Connor Buckley September 2, 2014

Advice for Captain America: the 2014 Ryder Cup

When the 40th Ryder Cup Matches commence at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland at the end of this month, the U.S. team, led by captain Tom Watson, will certainly have... Read more

By Joe Pollicino September 1, 2014

On the Record: Kick back with Peter Fanone!

Peter Fanone (Col ‘17) is a double major in Theater and Government with a minor in Italian. He’ll be performing at Kickback today. I sat down with Peter this... Read more

By Daniel Varghese September 1, 2014

Balotelli’s Second Chance

If you’re a fan of football in any way, shape, or form, then you’ve no doubt heard that magic Mario Balotelli moved his way on over to Merseyside last week.... Read more

By Chris Castano September 1, 2014