Author: Will Cafritz

Skeptical of the problematic title, I had low expectations for ABC’s new comedy Fresh Off the Boat. But the show still compelled me to watch: Its 90 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and status as the first Asian-American family sitcom to air on network primetime in twenty years made it

I may be a little late to the game, but I finally watched the pilot episode of Fox’s Empire the other night after hearing my suitemates scream, laugh and cry over it for the past few weeks. I’ve never been a huge fan of musicals, but this show seems to

HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst is probably the most terrifying, jaw-dropping television I have ever experienced. As when I watch most of HBO’s content, I felt like I was watching a movie, except this time was unsettlingly different—it is a documentary mini-series, meaning that all

HBO’s original series Girls is similar to Bravo’s reality television franchise The Real Housewives: essentially, everyone on the show is delusional and completely unaware of how self-absorbed they are in their grossly privileged lifestyles. What is somewhat unsettling about Girls, however, is despite the fact that I pretty much dislike all

“Please don’t tell me, I’m going to have FOMO for the rest of my life,” said Ilana in response to her best friend Abbie getting a nose ring after a wild night out in “Hashtag FOMO,” the fifth episode of Broad City season two. For all you grandmas and grandpas

With Parks and Recreation in its seventh and final season, I have decided to dedicate my first column to the late and great Li’l Sebastian. “It’s times like this when someone … or some horse passes that you really take stock of your life. You look around you, and you start

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a 19th-century sailor, stevedore, or any other kind of maritime worker? If so, you’re in luck. Pomona College is now offering a Sea Chanty & Maritime Music Ensemble course. The course is taught by visiting assistant professor of music Gibb

The Queer Resource Center of the Claremont Colleges (QRC) teamed up with the Pomona College Museum of Art for a special exhibition to introduce their “Queer [His/Her/Their]story Project” at Art After Hours on Nov. 7. The project consists of an archive of oral interviews and will soon be preserved in

While shows like Glee and Pitch Perfect might lead one to imagine that there is a cutthroat, competition-driven a cappella scene in Claremont, there is very little to no competition between the eight a cappella groups across the 5Cs.  “There’s no way to compete because we, each a cappella group,

Lights shine on center stage where two men sit on a worn red couch, one of whom is wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap, a navy blue tracksuit, a shirt that reads upside down “THIS IS MY KEGSTAND SHIRT,” and gray sneakers while the other is dressed in a