Berman isn’t just writing his thesis—he’s also storyboarding, directing, and editing it.

What makes a pirate? Is it the cutlass, the distinctive tri-corner hat, or the swashbuckling disdain for authority? The pirates ...

“I have played colleges before,” Patrick Park says. “But I’ve never gone on before a rapper.”

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Listening to “Here Lies Love” means first coming to terms with the bizarre reality of this album: David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, and a host of guest singers narrating the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

From harrowing early documentaries providing the first looks into the Nazi death camps to award-winning blockbusters like “Schindler’s List,” cinema has proven itself uniquely suited to conveying the grim significance of the Holocaust. The volume of cinematic depictions can only be explained by the event’s call for intensely visual artistic response.

Merriweather’s work proves to be exactly what he was presumably trying to deliver: a collection of good-to-great soul-pop songs.

Last night, a talk on contemporary Catholic sexual ethics kicked off the Lenten speaker series “What’s Sex Got to Do With It?”

A new study finds that religion may have evolved as a by-product of non-religious, cognitive processes.