Charli XCX’s new album, “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat”, is the sonic embodiment of 2024’s ‘brat summer’ — chaotic, euphoric and unabashedly experimental. With...
“Only connect!” proclaims E.M. Forster in the epigraph of “Howards End” (1910). “Only connect!” expounds the character Margaret Schlegel halfway through the novel. “Only … connect?” I...
From Sept. 25 to 28, the word repeated across the Emerson Greene Theatre stage was, to the probable horror of the few 60 or 70-somethings scattered throughout the audience, “cunt.” Not just in its...
*Whiplash spoilers ahead*
On Tuesday, Sept. 24, I was lucky enough to catch a 10th anniversary reissue of Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film “Whiplash” at AMC Boston Common 19. The film...
CW: spoilers, mentions of death, age-gap relationships, and chronic pain
In the spring of 2015, Irish author Sally Rooney reflected on her time as the top competitive debater in Europe in...
Alongside the textbooks and scholarly titles most of us will encounter at some point in our college career, Clapp Library now holds a diverse and expanding collection of recreational reading (aka “Rec...
On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 12, Professor Kellie Carter Jackson and Dr. Chipo Dendere of Wellesley College's Africana Studies department sat down at Wellesley Books to discuss Professor Carter Jackson's...
The title of Bad Bunny’s latest studio album “Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana” could not have been a more accurate description of how I felt walking into his Boston concert Wednesday night....
It was a cold evening on Sunday, April 8. Taking shelter in an egg-shaped performance venue aptly called The Egg, the Albany audience chatted away in anticipation of a night of music. The lights dimmed,...
Alex Garland’s “Civil War” has been one of the most anticipated movies of the year. A24’s biggest film yet follows a group of journalists documenting a nationwide civil war as they travel from...
Spoilers for "Monkey Man" ahead!
“Monkey Man,” Dev Patel’s directorial and screenwriting debut, arrived in theaters on April 5, 2024, to much fanfare, even receiving a standing ovation at its premiere...
“9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” A universal phrase heard across the United States in their search for aid has been taken and turned into a procedural drama for all to love. Created by Tim Minear,...
