Vanity
Arts Vanity: Cultural Flops I Think Deserve More Attention
I’d like to discuss the cultural flops that live most potently in my heart, mind, and cultural sensibility.
Arts Vanity: Power Trips for When Harvard Destroys You
For your reading pleasure, a list of shows to remind you what you’ve known in your heart of hearts all along: The show doesn’t run you. You run it.
Arts Vanity: An Ode to Crimson Arts Production Night
As a final love letter to production night, I present: a poem composed entirely of quotes from closeouts emails — a record, a relic, a portrait of this odd, exhausting, crazy, wonderful thing that is Crimson Arts.
Editors' Note: Bye Bitches
It is with profound joy — and a tinge of sadness — that we present the ninth edition of The Crimson Arts’ Year-in-Review.
Arts Vanity: In the Mood for Films
My biggest goal as film executive has always been to nudge writers into loving film, and helping them find new films to love. Nothing has touched me more than having a writer or exec say that I’ve changed how they view films.
Arts Vanity: My Life as an Amateur Interior Dorm Designer
Many underestimate the power of a few household garnishes here and there, but interior dorm design isn’t something one can pick up willy-nilly.
Arts Vanity: Bad Queer Art: A Sampling
I have decided to come clean: There have been points in my life where I have indulged in some bad queer art. Sometimes, at the end of a long day, I just want to cradle the $3 lesbian flag that I got from some horrifying Target pride sale.
Arts Vanity: On My Love-Hate Relationship with ‘Inception’
At the end of the day, my opinion of “Inception” at any given moment has much more to do with my current state of mind than anything else.
Arts Vanity: A Reflection on DCOMs and the Revolutionary Vision of ‘Lemonade Mouth’
Incoming TV Executive Jamila O’Hara staunchly believes that “High School Musical 2” is way better than “High School Musical.”
Arts Vanity: ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ is Responsible for 99% of my Emotional Intelligence
I believe “Avatar” should be required viewing for everyone, everywhere.
Arts Vanity: Top Five Scariest Twitter Stanbases
To write this piece, I know I must tread lightly. I have once tried my chances, taken a major risk, and unfortunately fallen victim to the wrath of angry stans on Twitter.
Arts Vanity: Help! The Impractical Jokers are Ruining My Life
Outgoing Social EAL / Unofficial Film EAL / EAL’s Corner Executive Connor S. Dowd has been a social experiment conducted by truTV in association with the “Impractical Jokers.” Don’t tell him that we told you or else you’ll ruin the prank.
Arts Vanity: My Music Playlists as Stages of Being Bipolar
As a fuck you to the stereotypes and an ode to my ~eclectic~ music taste, I present: bipolar disorder, the playlist edition.
Arts Vanity: I Would Sell my Kidney to Meet Bruno Mars
In the common room of our Lowell suite, one of my eight blockmates posed the question which would come to redefine our relationship forever: What would you give up to meet your favorite celebrity?
Arts Vanity: My Favorite Drakeo the Ruler Songs: Long Live the LA Legend
Last November, I wrote about my Top 5 Drakeo songs in celebration of his release from prison. Here is an updated, unranked list of my favorite Drakeo songs in honor of the late West Coast legend. Rest in Peace. Long Live The Greatest.
Arts Vanity: (Short) Girls to the Front
I have been stuck behind a too-tall concertgoer far too many times to ignore the fact that, for someone coming in at five-foot-three inches like me, watching a general admission show from anywhere behind the first three rows is an endless battle.
Arts Vanity: What to Wear to Crimson Arts Meetings
Dressing yourself for Arts meetings is an intricate art. The writers that get it, get it, and the writers that don’t, don’t.
Arts Vanity: Help! A Pitch About 'Glee' Took Over My Crimson Identity
I fear that my legacy in the eyes of the 151s, the 150s, and even, woefully, the beloved incoming execs of the 149th Guard has become inextricable from one horrible, wonderful television series about a high school show choir in Ohio.
Arts Vanity: Musings of a Nutcracker Deprived Ballerina
We were part of bringing magic and holiday spirit to the community — through the art that we all loved so much, no less.
Arts Vanity: Confessions of a Former DiCaprio Girl
Allow me to travel back in time and set the scene for readers who are undoubtedly curious about my elusive history as a DiCaprio girl. Everyone has a past, and this is mine.
Arts Vanity: Months of Covid-19 as Quotes from the Arts Board
Before you block out all remaining memories of this dumpster-fire of a year, take a walk down memory lane through some of the year’s best — and most fitting — Arts Board quotes.
Arts Vanity: How to be the Quirky Best Friend in a Trashy Rom-Com: A Comprehensive Guide
We all know who the real hero of the rom-com genre is: Katherine’s flamboyant co-worker Jim, who offers sage nuggets of wisdom in between sassy quips about how stripes make Katherine look fat. Why be a Richard or a Katherine when you can be a Jim?
Arts Vanity: Confessions of an 'ARTPOP' Apologist
You read the title, you know where this is going, and you know what I am about to say. You may disagree with me. You may want to argue with me. You may even be one of the many Lana Del Ray stans who recently attacked me on Twitter. But deep down, you know that I am right; you just don’t want to admit it.
Arts Vanity: Why 'Jennifer's Body' Should be in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Movies of the Last 100 Years
Sure, “Citizen Kane” is a perfectly good movie. Fine. But, as Jennifer would say, “move-on-dot-org, Needy, it’s over.” It’s “Jennifer’s Body”’s turn now.
Arts Vanity: Crimson Arts Execs as 'Parks and Recreation' Characters
I present to you the Masthead of the 147th Guard of Arts Board of The Harvard Crimson as characters from “Parks and Recreation.”