BY CHRISTINA BIANCO A Review of the Metropolitan Opera’s Prince Igor On Saturday March 1st, I rushed over to the movie theater in Kenmore Square to see Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor broadcasted by the Metropolitan Opera. As the curtain rose, the opera began with a projection of the quote “to unleash a war is […]
BY WILL HARRINGTON When a video game leads to the birth of a religion. Twitch is an online video game streaming service. For the past few weeks it’s been host to a channel called “TwitchPlaysPokemon,” or TPP. Using the chat box, normally reserved for commentary on the human player/owner of the channel, stream-watchers have been […]
BY JOANNA R. SCHACTER Puns aside, LGBTQ portrayal in the media is really, really important. When Laverne Cox, known for her role in the television series Orange is the New Black, came to Harvard to discuss her identity as a transgender black woman, and the intersectionality of these components of her identity, I went to […]
BY JOAN LI Cutting the red string with Honey and Clover “An ancient red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.” According to this ancient Chinese proverb, the gods above link soul mates together with a red cord […]
The Independent’s Arts section is excited to have two columnists this semester: Joan Li ’17 and Christina Bianco ‘17. Our columnists will alternate writing each week, with Joan’s first article appearing in this week’s issue, and Christina’s appearing in next week’s. As a publication, The Indy prioritizes content that not only engages readers, but also […]
BY JOAN LI Introducing Pandora Hearts as a Gateway Series If you’re like me, then you suffer from a kind of wanderlust for places that neither the wondrous stretches of the T nor any amount of funding from the OIE can satisfy. That’s because unfortunately, you can only get to Hogwarts via platform 9 ¾ […]
BY WILL HARRINGTON The branding of Russia at the Olympics Games A friend of mine spent the fall in Siberia improving his Russian. His bags didn’t include a winter coat when he left in late August. He reasoned that nobody in the world would make warmer winter coats than the Russians in Siberia, so he […]
BY MICHAEL LUO A comparative look at 2 Broke Girls and Archer Fridays for me usually consist of watching family-friendly Pixar films, alone, consuming microwavable SpaghettiOs, alone, and falling asleep to Nas’s Illmatic, during class. You might say this is not the ideal college experience, but I argue otherwise. The education attainable through such elegant […]
BY JOANNA R. SCHACTER Inter-University comedy festival brings improv to the Loeb Drama Center’s ex-theatre. Friday and Saturday night’s LaughRiot, an improv comedy festival hosted by Harvard’s Immediate Gratification Players, made laughter simple. Comedy is a undeniably a difficult medium of expression; jokes can very easily fall flat, audiences can be an unresponsive bunch, and […]
BY SHREYA VARDHAN “Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Bennet’s hopes in this regard were to remain unfulfilled — her daughter Jane did not die of a broken heart after […]