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(11/18/14 6:34am)
Many people associate musicals with random dance numbers, toned-down dialogue and happily-ever-afters. Brandeis’ latest musical challenges this assumption, touching on sensitive issues like sex education and abortion overs its two acts. Tympanium Euphorium’s production of Spring Awakening debuted on Thursday evening in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater. The show was directed by Rachel Liff ’16 and stage-managed by Rachel Josselsohn ’17. It focused on two German teenagers, Melchior Gabor (Jason Theoharis ’17) and Wendla Bergmann (Sarah Steiker ’17), who break the rules of their restrictive society. The show’s program bills it as a play about “everything we don’t talk about,” which is pretty accurate. Featuring sex, abortion and corruption, the play highlighted the darker parts of German society in the late 1890s. The production appeared to be cognizant of this fact and included a resource guide for sexual assault survivors and bystanders in its playbill.
(11/18/14 6:27am)
The lights went dark; a drum roll-like thunder sound came out of the speakers and MAGIC!—the Canadian reggae-fusion band—came out on stage to perform their first piece, “No Way No.”
(11/18/14 6:14am)
This week in music: Lorde continued to prove her dominance with her new track “Yellow Flicker Beat” and some epic covers, Eminem released a freestyle rap with offensive lyrics and Nicki Minaj apologized for her new music video that features Nazi imagery. What else is new?
(11/18/14 3:20am)
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism screened Resistance, a 2014 documentary that discusses the evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria as a result of overusing antibiotics, on Thursday.
(11/18/14 3:03am)
From left, J Street U Brandeis Head of Communications Shani Abramowitz ’14, and J Street U Brandeis co-presidents Yaakov Malome ’15, Talia Lepson ’16 and Zachery Anziska ’15.
(11/11/14 7:42am)
It is rare for an artist to break into the music scene but not release a studio album for more than three years. It is rarer still for that first studio album to hit the iTunes top three—and Azealia Banks proves to be that exception. Her debut album, Broke with Expensive Taste, dropped almost unannounced on Nov. 6, nearly three years after she first began working on it. The long wait was more than worth it, as Banks is breaking onto the rap scene at a moment when the most popular female performer is Iggy Azaela, an Australian who thinks she can rap. Banks not only runs circles around Azaela but brings new competition to Nicki Minaj, one of the most charted and decorated female rap artists in the United States.
(11/11/14 7:01am)
If you’ve turned on the TV lately, chances are you’ve come across a superhero. Superheroes are not restricted to the movie screen. New additions Gotham and The Flash have joined current hits Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this season.
(11/11/14 6:36am)
This Saturday, the University will host the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament for the third consecutive year. Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams qualified for the tournament with a 17-2 record and 12-4-2 record, respectively. Each team ended its regular season at New York University on Saturday. The men won 1-0, while the women tied 0-0. This board congratulates both soccer teams on their successful seasons and wishes each team the best of luck as it heads into the tournament this upcoming weekend.
(11/11/14 6:12am)
Brandeis alumnus Joseph Shipman Ph.D.’91 co-wrote an article that was chosen to be in the 2014 edition of The Best Writing on Mathematics. He wrote the article, titled “Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2” with John H. Conway, an established mathematician who teaches at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge.
(11/11/14 6:07am)
The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections announced on Nov. 1 that it is featuring the Nahum Goldmann collection, which chronicles the life of the Zionist activist and Israel advocate, in their monthly Spotlight.
(11/11/14 5:21am)
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(11/11/14 3:24am)
While walking the steep path that leads down to East Quad, you may have noticed a small, dilapidated house situated off to the side, between the path and the Usdan Student Center. Yet, it’s just as likely that you overlooked it—the structure appears ordinary and unimposing, tucked away in a small corner of upper campus and dwarfed by larger campus fixtures that are part of your daily routine like the Usen Castle and the Rabb steps. The house and a small parcel of land surrounding the house are not technically Brandeis University property but are instead owned by the city of Waltham.
(11/04/14 7:07am)
The Boston Ballet company’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, redefined the timeless classic production of Swan Lake at its opening this Thursday. Nissinen added to Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s original choreography.
(11/04/14 7:00am)
Boston-area college students looking for an activity on the night before Halloween were in luck this past Thursday. Approximately 3,300 students from 30 schools flocked to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for College Night: MFA After Dark.
(11/04/14 6:34am)
This week had a smattering of interesting pop culture and entertainment news, and I couldn’t pick just one topic. Here’s some of what’s been going on.
(11/04/14 5:10am)
There’s a website called Vox, and I hate myself for using it as often as I do.
(11/04/14 2:12am)
Prof. Dan Perlman’s (BIOL) new office has two desks and a beach ball-sized inflatable globe. Sunlight pours in from the huge windows that line the wall. Small boxes from his recent move are stacked neatly in a corner along a wall that doubles as a dry erase board. There are no cubicles or doors separating Perlman’s working space from that of his colleagues, just a see-through partition that stretches from the floor to the ceiling.
(10/28/14 5:42am)
Have you ever looked at a building and thought: this would look better covered in spandex? Have you ever wondered if a painting can still be called a painting if it is created entirely out of fabric? Have you ever tried to turn your old tights into a work of art?
(10/28/14 5:38am)
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, as performed by Brandeis Players and directed by Sarah Waldron ’17, makes the audience think deeply about themes such as love and loss in a time when AIDS was just coming into the public’s attention.
(10/28/14 5:18am)
Whether or not you are a fan of Top 40 radio, it’s pretty remarkable that in today’s digital culture, we still have radio stations that the majority of people tune in to on a regular basis. Yes, many of us stream our favorite stations on the Internet now, but the concept of the radio station still seems to be the same.
