Year in Review
‘Long Live’ (Anna and Allison’s Version)
AM: “Long live all the mountains we moved.” ASP: “I’ve had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.”
The Academic Policing of Academics on Policing
In 2022, professors Christopher Lewis and Adaner Usmani argued that to reduce violent crime, the U.S. needs to drastically shorten its prison sentences — and increase its police force by half a million officers. Their ideas soon become a flashpoint of online discourse.
Arts Vanity: (I Smell a Rat) Why Geronimo Stilton Is A Classic
Another feature of Geronimo Stilton is its characteristically cheesy (haha) mouse puns.
Top 10 TV Shows of 2023
The Crimson Arts Board presents its television favorites of 2023, from "Succession" to "Jury Duty."
Top 10 Cultural Moments of 2023
The Crimson Arts Board presents its favorite cultural moments of 2023, from "Barbenheimer" to the "Renaissance World Tour."
Top 10 Films of 2023
The Crimson Arts Board presents its film favorites of 2023, from "Red, White & Royal Blue" to "Killers of the Flower Moon."
Arts Vanity: Items On My Harvard-issue Bookshelf and their Friend Archetype
Though it’s only seven panels of wood haphazardly stapled, glued, taped, and otherwise forced together, the Harvard-issue bookshelf may be one of the greatest cultural phenomena of our lifetime.
Arts Vanity: What Your Favorite Song Length Says About You: A Musical Montage
Welcome. Have a seat! Given that my tenure as music executive soon begins, it is now my time to judge you on the most important minutia of the musical world — song length — and tell you what this means about your worth as a person. Let’s begin.
Arts Vanity: The Steps to Writing Your Final Paper About a Movie
The options are endless, but I find myself frequently going for the glimmering idea on the hill: Why not write about a movie?
Arts Vanity: The Perfect Moment for Every Song from my Summer 2023 Playlist
This feels like a good starting point. It’s been the spring, summer, and fall of “Tití Me Pregunto.” Please, everyone, stop in your tracks and play it on full blast wherever you are in order to secure a “Tití Me Pregunto” winter. I’ll be honest, it’s no “Yo Perreo Sola,” but nothing gets the people going like this song (sorry, “N*ggas in Paris”) — even if they speak absolutely zero words of Spanish.
Arts Vanity: My Art History Obsession Has Gone Too Far
Spawning from the glorified fan fiction that I shared at the HUAHS event, I present: If famous artists were students at Harvard, here is who I think they would be and why.
Arts Vanity: The Stage Play ‘Life of Pi’ Converted Me
As an English concentrator, sometimes I joke that I don’t even believe what I argue in my essays. Yet “Life of Pi” convinced me that multiple truths can coexist in the same space.
Arts Vanity: The Top 5 Bad Bunny Songs You Don’t Hear at Every Party
The next time you’re on aux and you face accusations of “latinophobia,” consider switching things up by playing any of these five Bad Bunny classics that deserve more airtime.
Arts Vanity: An Attempt to Decipher My Monthly Playlists
I am a creature of habit. So are, apparently, many of my friends. In February, when one of said friends kindly introduced me to the concept of creating “monthly playlists” to document one’s favorite songs from each month of the year, I was hooked. It’s like Spotify Wrapped, but 12 times a year. Joy.
