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Review — Telling you all that I have been looking forward to this film would be an understatement. Ever since it was announced two years ago, I have been anticipating a thought-provoking experience from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Overlooking the wetlands behind Chapel’s Field, a newly designated corner sits in the Goldfarb Library honoring the recipients of two University awards, the Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life and the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize.
Review —This past Saturday night, while many of you were out celebrating your Halloween and family weekend — catching up with family, dressing up as your favorite superhero or simply staying in bed, binging the latest installment of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” — I was at the annual family weekend variety show, which commenced at 8 p.m. in Levin Ballroom on Oct. 28.
Review — Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is well known for his groundbreaking, colorful and graphic body of work. However, a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, “Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics,” aims to highlight the connections between Murakami’s own unique body of work and the impressive, expansive collection of Japanese art at the MFA — giving context to Murakami’s famed works. This exhibition was curated by Murakami, his artistic and philosophical mentor Nobuo Tsuji and MFA curator Anne Nishimura Morse. The melding of these three minds results in an exhibit that succeeds in tracing the eccentric history of Japanese art through Murakami’s own repertoire.
The Gosman Sports and Convocation Center was packed to the brim this past weekend, with the up-and-coming X Ambassadors performing live in front of a rowdy crowd of Brandeisian students. X Ambassadors, led by vocalist Sam Harris, is best known for their top-10 Billboard songs from their 2015 album, “VHS,” which has sold over 500,000 copies to date. Their lineup of hit songs, including “Unsteady,” “Renegades” and “Jungle,” has vaulted the band to national fame, helping them reach a peak position of No. 7 in the U.S. Billboard 200 weekly charts, in recent years.
On July 8, 2010, the entire basketball world was watching ESPN, where superstar free agent forward LeBron James was about to announce where he would spend the next chapter of his career. Instead of returning to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers, James famously declared he would be taking his talents to South Beach, joining forces with guard Dwyane Wade and forward Chris Bosh in the hopes of bringing a title to the Miami Heat. James and Bosh each could have been paid more to play elsewhere, but they sacrificed some money in order to win a ring. This was the creation of the first modern superteam and it took the National Basketball Association by storm. Many argue that this new fad of creating superteams in order to win championships has “ruined” basketball. But how new is this phenomenon in reality?
Recently, Dove produced an ad that featured a Black woman removing her shirt to reveal a fair-skinned white woman, and the white woman doing the same to reveal a third woman. However innocent the intention may have been, the advertisement was met with backlash over claims of racism and was eventually pulled, according to an Oct. 8 New York Times article. The article also states that Dove has since apologized for the ad, and that spokeswoman Marissa Solan stated that the commercial was intended to be a celebration of diversity and show that Dove body wash is meant for every woman. Regardless, this is not the first time that Dove has been accused of racial insensitivity. In 2011, the company released an ad, again with the intent to promote their body wash and show its beneficial effects on skin. However, the ad featured women standing in order from darkest to lightest, with a backdrop comparing clean and dirty skin. The word “before” was above the black woman and “after” above the white woman. According to a May 26, 2011 NBC News article, Dove responded to the controversy stating that all three women were intended to show the “after” effect. If Dove prides itself on “widening the definition of beauty,” per their website, why do they continue to perpetuate racist tropes and enforce colorist ideals?
Loans and budgets can be a source of stress for students trying to navigate their finances for the first time. With the launch of SALT, an online financial literacy resource, the Office of Student Financial Services is looking to put students’ fears to rest.
What happens when it rains on your parade? From 1 to 5p.m. on Oct. 14, the Campus Activities Board, previously known as Student Events, held its first event of the year: X-Lawn. As the coordinator of X-Lawn, Alyson Perenne ’19 told the Justice that CAB organized the event aiming to “start off the year with a bang,” but things didn’t go exactly as planned.
Bright strokes of color extend across unstretched canvas, overlapping in loud, sporadic strokes. Simple pedestals dot the floor, displaying equally brightly painted statues — a TV, a face, a pair of feet. A large doorless file cabinet, Pepto-Bismol pink, stands in the center of an enclave. On another wall, a small collage of pamphlet advertisements sits among a collection of cartoons in various states of refinement. These are some of the things you might see when you first enter the Rose Art Museum’s solo exhibition of New York artist Joe Bradley.
REVIEW — This past Tuesday, students, faculty and friends of Brandeis University eagerly filed into Wasserman Cinematheque for a special screening of documentarian Vanessa Gould’s latest film “Obit,” which follows the day-to-day life of writers in the obituary department at the New York Times. The event was co-sponsored by the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fund, the Department of Film, Television and Interactive Media and the Journalism department.
REVIEW — Brandeis’ sketch group Boris’ Kitchen is one of the few performing companies that I enjoy and continue to return to. Their jokes don’t land every time, but I always end up laughing harder than I expect to going in. There are usually a few jokes in each show that kill. Comedy is subjective, of course, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. There were quite a few scenes where I didn’t laugh out loud. I would only smirk at a joke while the rest of the room would boom with laughter. It’s just how I react to most comedy that doesn’t match my style. Yet, oddly enough, Boris’ Kitchen still entertains me. The cast is full of contagious energy, and the joy they bring to their audiences is commendable.
“Pay with your face,” declared the Sept. 12 release video for the new iPhone X. With that one statement, Apple Inc. has forced me to step away from the cutting edge.
This year, some residents in the Foster Mods have reported experiencing difficulties with cellular coverage, such as an inability to make calls or send texts. Good cell reception is important for students’ ability to not only communicate with each other but also contact friends, family and employers. As such, this board urges the University to explore possible solutions to this problem.
Aligning with the values of social justice that lie at the core of the University’s mission, the Student Association for The Right to Immigration Institute is making itself known among the student-run clubs on campus for its commitment to the defense of immigrant rights. The club, in partnership with the non-profit TRII, seeks to provide undergraduate students with the accreditation necessary to represent refugees in Boston courts and practice immigration law before the Department of Homeland Security.
Focused on Judaism, gender and the confluence between the two, poetry reading “Spiritual Sisters” demonstrated issues close to the values of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute’s heart on Tuesday.
This week, justArts spoke with Sivan Spector ’18, who directed Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.”
REVIEW — The original “Blade Runner” from 1982 is controversial yet unanimously accepted as a modern sci-fi classic. The film has been modified into several different cuts over many decades to satisfy either the production executives or director Ridley Scott but never both. Fans detest the narration-riddled theatrical cuts and praise the subtler final cut.
Until yesterday, anyone with a Brandeis email account had access to the private information of students, faculty and administrators through the University’s Google Calendar network.
The shamelessly underpaying, obesity-encouraging establishment Americans know and love, McDonald’s is known for many things: low prices, quick food and unmatched elegance — or that is what the people behind the Big Mac want us to think at least.