Ask most students what they think of WBRS, Brandeis' 30-watt student-run radio station, and the responses aren't pretty: If the informal polling I've conducted in recent weeks is even somewhat accurate, then the common, "Oh, I never listen" is about as generous as the responses come.It's a shame.
The first time I heard "Japan"-one of the better cuts from CocoRosie's latest, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn-the Casady sisters were opening for Antony and the Johnsons at Boston's Paradise Rock Club.
B+Critics will tell you that somewhere between breaking up those sublime indie rockers Luna and marrying his sweetheart, Dean Wareham became the new Lee Hazlewood.
In an evening that celebrated the legacy of Anglo-American cinema as much as works of student filmmakers, the comedic short Hit or Miss took top honors at the sixth SunDeis Film Festival awards ceremony Sunday night in Sherman Function Hall.In addition to the best picture prize, the humorous short film about low-level office workers who aspire to become hit men also won in the best screenwriting category, with its creators David LaCarubba and Michael Ouelette accepting both prizes.
As a month of controversies and uncertainty surrounding former President Jimmy Carter's visit to Brandeis reached its conclusion, the response on campus-where many anticipated a highly charged atmosphere-was, in a word, underwhelming.About 30 demonstrators carrying signs with slogans ranging from "Carter lied, thousands died," to "Closing our eyes to injustice is not a Jewish value," to "End occupation now" gathered across from the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center by 4 p.m.
D+It isn't exactly fair to say that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!-they of obnoxious name, jangly guitars and aberrant business sense-was a victim of its own success.
As a month of controversies and uncertainty surrounding former President Jimmy Carter's visit to Brandeis reached its conclusion, the response on campus-where many anticipated a highly charged atmosphere-was, in a word, underwhelming.About 30 demonstrators carrying signs with slogans-ranging from "Carter lied, thousands died," to "Closing our eyes to injustice is not a Jewish value," to "End occupation now"-gathered across from the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center by 4 p.m.
If there's one lesson the Rose Art Museum's iconic collection has taught its custodians, it's that even the most dramatic story can be recast from a thousand different angles.Beginning Wednesday, that story--in which Sam Hunter, the Rose's first director, acquired 21 masterpieces-to-be in a single, $50,000 purchasing spree, and the museum in the proceeding 43 years built the largest contemporary art collection in the Northeast--will be told again in "Rose Art: Works from the Permanent Collection," this time through a trifocal lens.
For the arts at Brandeis, 2006 was a year of eclecticism and a year of change.It saw the end of the inaugural season of the Brandeis Theater Company, which includes undergraduate and graduate theater arts students, as well as professional actors.
Dr. Robert Berlin is a busy man.Sitting cross-legged in his cluttered yet comfortable office in the Mailman building, Berlin explains that when the Psychological Counseling Center opened in 1952 to serve undergraduates, the University only housed about 200 graduate students.
“A liberal arts for tomorrow”: Brandeis’ new model for higher education
BEMCo in the basement: supervisors speak on recent policy changes
“New Year, no genocide”: Brandeis Jewish Bund hosts first vigil this year
Will Art Survive? The Kennedy Center and Smithsonian under Trump
The 77th Emmy Awards: A celebration of (and frustration with) streaming, and records shattered