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by Mara Sassoon | 10/07/2013

Last Wednesday, Irish songstress Sinead O'Connor posted an expletive-laden open letter to none other than pop queen Miley Cyrus on her website.

Pop Culture

by Mara Sassoon | 09/30/2013

Happy October, pop-culture enthusiasts! Guess who's back in the celebrity news circuit this week ... our favorite big-screen vampire, Robert Pattinson. No, he's not back in the news for bringing back that big hair-thank goodness.

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by Mara Sassoon | 09/23/2013

You've probably heard the expression the "Disney star curse," an epithet that people use to describe the number of former Disney stars who have had brushes with scandals, breakdowns and rehab stints.

Pop Culture

by Mara Sassoon | 09/16/2013

Love is in the air, my pop culture peeps. To catch you up on what you may have missed these past couple weeks, here are some updates on the marriages, engagements (both confirmed and rumored) and budding romances in Hollywood. It looks like Scarlett Johansson is off the market once again.

Pop Culture

by Mara Sassoon | 09/03/2013

Hello again, my fellow pop culture connoisseurs! I hope everyone had a great (albeit short) first week of classes. Is anyone surprised that there is more news from the Kardashian Korner? This time, though, it's no fluff story about what kind of dress one of the sisters wore or about Kim K's post-baby body.

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by Mara Sassoon | 08/26/2013

Hello Brandeis! Welcome back-or to the new students out there, just plain old welcome! We've all been busy with the back-to-school routine, so in case you missed out, here are some of the latest goings-on of the entertainment world to get you up to date.

Installations move viewers

by Mara Sassoon | 03/12/2012

Internationally renowned artist Shimon Attie visited campus on Tuesday and spoke to the Brandeis community about his multimedia and installation work as part of his talk "Art and Memory: Moving Images." The Fine Arts department presented the talk, which was held at The Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque, with the support of both the Film, Television, and Interactive Media program and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Attie, who was born in California, described himself as having "a very strong Jewish cultural identity." He lived in Israel while in his teens, an experience he describes as a "very formative" time in his life.

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