Arts
The Postelles
John Speyer, the bassist of "The Postelles", follows every beat with bursting passion. The NY-born indie band performed at Brighton Music Hall on March 4.
Poetry Reading at Houghton to Focus on Ecology
The nearly 600-page collection features formally innovative work in the tradition of the pastoral, an ancient form of lyric poetry celebrating shepherds and rural life. At the same time, these poems address ideas from an ecology perspective.
BPYO Resurrects Mahler
A Mahler enthusiast, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander has not conducted one of his favorite works—Mahler’s Symphony No. 2— in 40 years. On Sunday at Symphony Hall, he will rediscover the piece with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
TV In The Age Of Netflix
The February debut of Netflix series “House of Cards” has critics in a frenzy—but not over anything that actually happens on the show. The topic of discussion is instead its method of distribution. The company released all 13 of the series’ episodes on the same day, making it in some ways resemble a long movie more than a traditional television show..
Tweets Of The Southern Wild
With the ever-tactless Seth MacFarlane for a host, there was never any doubt that this year’s Academy Awards broadcast would ruffle a fair amount of feathers. For all of its other failings, the ceremony certainly delivered spectacularly on that front; it took a scant few minutes for the “Family Guy” creator to offend just about the entire audience in an opening number cleverly titled “I Saw Your Boobs.”
Musical Gluttony And How To Suppress It
I was a junior in high school when it started. Every Saturday morning, I would leave my house in suburban New Jersey and take a train into Manhattan, transfer to the subway, and make my way over to the Manhattan School of Music on the Upper West Side. It was there that I became a musical glutton.
Ghungroo 2013
Guy D. Pawson ‘14 (right) and Geraldine M. Jowett ‘14 perform the Bollywood Dance at Agassiz Theater. Ghungroo is an annual celebration of Indian culture featuring songs and dances by student performers.
Hyperion Shakespeare Company
The Hyperion Shakespeare Company practices for their show, Family Feud, at the Adams Pool Theater. Performances included scenes from plays including Hamlet, Richard III, King Lear, and As You Like It.
The (Mis)Adventures of Issa Rae
When we heard that Issa Rae was going to be on Harvard's campus this weekend for a Law School Conference, we just had to get in touch. Rae is the creator of the beloved (and critically acclaimed) YouTube Series "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," in which she stars as J, a hilariously honest—and, yes, awkward—young woman dealing with the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Issa Rae chatted with Flyby about the importance of embracing the awkward in everything from stop signs to higher education.
