“Saturday Night Live” celebrated the start of its 50th season Sept. 28. Since the 1970s, the late night comedy broadcast has been a cornerstone of American culture. Though the show is aging, the writers have been eagerly targeting the content toward younger audiences effectively.
Unsurprisingly,...
The Recording Academy released nominations for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards Nov. 8, with artists including Beyoncé, Charli XCX and Kendrick Lamar ruling the nominations and rising stars Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan among those up for Best New Artist.
The ceremony...
Are you looking for a gift to brighten someone’s holiday season, but you’re unsure what to get them? How do you know what to get your older brother and his girlfriend who live far away from you? What about your best friend, who you can’t live without? Maybe even your long-distance...
What’s better than meeting Timothée Chalamet? If the recent fascination with celebrity look-alike contests is any indication, it’s finding 50 of his doppelgängers in one place — and some lucky attendees left having interacted with both.
A much-anticipated Chalamet...
Costumes have been packed away, candy stashes are getting sparse and pumpkins have rotted. It’s official — Halloween is over, and its remnants are withering away.
If you are a fall fan like me, this is a depressing period of time. Thanksgiving break looms in the distance,...
‘Tis the season where red, orange and yellow leaves cover the sidewalks, cozy sweaters and boots are retrieved from closets and hot drinks are back in style. Fall is here, and there is no better way to settle into the season than by diving into these movies, TV shows and albums...
As an instrument itself, the human brain is fine-tuned for music. Listening to a song activates almost every part of a listener’s brain — predominantly affecting regions such as the hippocampus and amygdala — which are both involved in emotion and memory processing. It...
Every dedicated TV fan knows the pain of finding a new favorite show only for it to be canceled. Frustrated viewers often bemoan how networks never keep good shows running, but over time, their disappointment fades, and they move on. Sometimes though, when they don’t forget,...
In September 2023, singer-songwriter Chappell Roan sat at about one million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Roan secured an opening gig on Olivia Rodrigo’s “GUTS World Tour” in early 2024 as well as several dates along Rodrigo’s previous “Sour Tour,” performing...
Oct. 25 to 27 is Family and Friends Weekend — a time when family and friends flock to Northeastern to explore the Boston campus and reunite with their student.
There will be lots to do on campus, but in a city as bustling as Boston, the possibilities are nearly endless...
For Halloween fanatics, October is marked by horror movies, pumpkin carving and, of course, excessive amounts of candy.
There are dozens of varieties of candy distributed on Halloween, ranging from classics like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to Sour Patch Kids — a much...
In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi started designing playing cards in a small shop in Kyoto. Over the next 135 years, this business venture would grow, evolve and transform into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world: Nintendo.
The cards Yamauchi created were known as...
