In an unprecedented move, the Nobel Committee for Literature has honored Bob Dylan as the first songwriter to be chosen as the Nobel Prize in…
Posts published in “Arts”
Playlist: Television’s Greatest Hits
Television shows are 30 percent about the content, 5 percent about the ads, 25 percent about the cute boy in the show, and 40 percent…
Book Sale Finds
You find yourself feeling suddenly unprepared in line between a man with two heavy-duty canvas tote bags and a man with a large plastic box…
Mauro Marinelli: Under Old Stars
Under Old Stars: Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns was the photo exhibit that ran from October 7–31 in the Eye Gallery, located above Petrune on…
Zakir Hussain Concert Review
As I sat down in my seat in Bailey Hall, I had no idea what to expect from the performance ahead. My parents had persuaded…
Ithaca Has Latin Roots: Ixcanul
Last Saturday, my friend Amalia Walker ’17 and I trekked across Cornell’s campus to Cornell Cinema, located in Willard Straight Hall. We were there to…
Mr. Robot Review
After watching every episode of Mr. Robot, some more than once, I can say with certainty that it is one of the best shows on…
Cartoons
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week: A Movie Review
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week—The Touring Years, named, of course, after the classic early Beatles song, follows the band through its four-year touring period…
Porchfest: Ten Years of Music in the Streets
Every year since 2007, people from all over Ithaca have come down to the usually quiet neighborhood of Fall Creek to listen to great local…
Swiss Army Man Review
This summer was a severe disappointment in the world of blockbuster films. While many were surrounded by major hype, none of them seemed to live…
The Get Down: A Movie Review
The Get Down is the Bronx in 1978. Suddenly you are there, walking past graffiti-covered trains, singing along to disco tunes, dancing down the street.…
A Blonde Review
After the memes, the waiting, and the almost complete obscurity of Frank Ocean’s plans as an artist, Blonde is finally here. Ocean is one of…
Odin’s Finest: A Viking Metal Playlist
Viking metal has been, for most of my experience with metal as a whole, one of my favorite genres of metal ever. Typically it consists…
JapanAmerica at the Johnson
Have you ever stared at something and noticed that it is not quite right? Like you weren’t sure if the frame was crooked or if…
What Reality TV Shows Don’t Tell You About Competitive Dance
Competitive dance has become more and more popular over the years, commercialized by shows like Dance Moms and So You Think You Can Dance, but…
German Theatre Crosses Borders
Of all the arts, theatre has an especially intense power to move us to a new perception of society. This summer, I spent three-and-a-half weeks…
Finding Dory
For many of us who were very young kids when Finding Nemo was released in 2003, that was the very first movie we ever saw…
Curated: September
Everything about September is undecided. It’s not quite fall, and it’s not quite summer. You know your schedule, but you don’t know your classes—the teachers,…
WHAT TIME IS IT?
NOT time to get a watch. Because it’s SUMMERTIME! This playlist is long enough that you’ll be able to play it on repeat all summer…
Ithaca: Hollywood of the East
In the early 20th century, Ithaca was the center of the silent film industry: a Hollywood of its time. Glamorous actresses, producers, and directors roamed…
Chance the Rapper: “Coloring Book” Review
To release an album on Friday the 13th, one would have to be pretty darn confident. Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper, released…
A New Kind of Makeover: The Jungle Book
Let’s throw it back to 1967: the year of my mother’s birth, the year that the first African- American Chief Justice, Thurgood Marshall, was sworn…
Remembering the Purple One
People (including myself) like to go on about how Prince was this and Prince was that: “He was Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Michael Jackson…
ReViews
Drake’s highly anticipated album has arrived! Views is an extensive, emotional collection of tunes straight from Toronto’s OVO Sound record label. As with almost every…
Yafet’s Favorite Music
I’m no stranger to music, but then again, who is? This is one of my last articles for The Tattler, and with summer rapidly approaching,…
“Can you picture how drop-dead gorgeous this city is in the rain? Imagine this town in the ’20s. Paris in the ’20s, in the rain.…