BY CAITLYN RALPH AND JASMINE RESPESS A lot happens in the music world between the Tangent’s bi-weekly production schedule. While Caitlyn and Jasmine would love to cover it all, they can’t – so, instead, we had them choose their favorite songs released since our last…
Here are the Tantrum (our annual Onion-esque April Fool's edition) articles from this year: Front page headlines: Towne Meeting to vote on legislation banning first-years from asking thesis students about their thesis Downtown Sarasota Farmer’s Market to move to Shell parking lot Physical Plant worker changing your…
Heroin use has increased dramatically in the U.S. over the past decade. Between 2006 and 2013, a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) revealed that the number of first-time heroin users doubled from 90,000 to 169,000. Health care providers wrote more…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD There’s an exhilarating combination of empathy and contempt in “Hail, Caesar!,” the latest comic concoction from Joel and Ethan Coen. Immersed in the day-to-day of a Hollywood studio in the 1950s, the film follows the travails of Eddie Mannix (Josh…
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SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD “Brooklyn” is a masterful exercise in restraint, spare and funny and without a false note to ring. It builds, it reaches and it moves, flowing with a disarming balance of indie spunk and dramatic sweep. Powered by writer Nick Hornby’s…
There was a special kind of nostalgic sadness that swept over the scene when one of its forefathers, The Academy Is…, decided to call it quits in 2011. The Chicago rock band was part of the mid-2000s “rat pack” - alongside Fall Out Boy,…
SUBMITTED BY SARA MINEO Dust swirled around the two crowned men standing in the center of the battlefield, their swords raised. It is the year 1314, and the King of the Scots Robert the Bruce, has led his army in the first battle of Scottish…
SUBMITTED BY JAMES ESPOSITO How to Pull an All-Nighter in 13 Easy Steps Procrastinate Do you have a paper coming up? Look at the assignment sheet; if the date is any further away than a week, don’t worry about it! This week is for…
SUBMITTED BY DAVID CANFIELD A journalistic slow-burn in the vein of “All the President’s Men,” “Spotlight” sacrifices sweep for realism, and glorification for nuance. In tackling the Boston Globe’s revelatory reporting on the Catholic priest child molestation scandal, director Tom McCarthy provides an investigation of…
