Jacob Shamsian

Release Editor

2015 English and History

jacob@bupipedream.com

103 Articles


Lifestyles

Sex Issue 2015: Seeking an arrangement: the sweeter side to a 'Sugar Daddy'

The two dated for eight months, ending it when Brooks was in Binghamton. He visited her for a weekend in November when all of her Dickinson flatmates were gone. ...


Television

Today's television comedies, where girls poop and the brows don't matter

Today’s television landscape largely dismisses the difference between brows high and low, though. ...


Books

Renata Adler: reviewing the ultimate critic

Renata Adler’s style of bravery is, in other words, understated. And her understatedness did no favors to her reputation. She’s not usually named alongside the other great nonfiction writers of the past ...


Art

Bing U Mural Review: Part 2

For those who haven’t seen this one, there’s a silhouette of the ocean, which slowly blends into a silhouette of the Jerusalem skyline, which slowly blends into a silhouette of the Binghamton ...


Television

Join the pack, get hooked on 'Wolf Hall'

The story’s appeal goes back to those rich Shakespearean themes, evident throughout the story: allegiances held or broken, lovers withheld or joined, destiny achieved or dashed. ...


Lifestyles

An encounter with Pipe Nightmare

We arranged to Skype at midnight. ...


Music

The White Panda, Sage the Gemini and Bad Rabbits to headline Spring Fling

Because of construction by the Student Wing and Lecture Hall, the SAPB will hold the concert elsewhere. ...


Lifestyles

Rosenfield captures more than just a photograph

Rosenfield began the project in 2010. He had more than 500 people leaving and entering his home. Now, five years later, Rosenfield has shot thousands of subjects, and he notices the same ...


Lifestyles

What it's like to be in a photo session with Steve Rosenfield

“What’s the last thing you’d want to tell someone else, because it would make you look bad?” he asked me. ...


Television

Yahoo! 'Community' rejoins for more hijinks in season 6

Now, the core group is down three — Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) is gone, “spun off” to her own show, as it’s explained to Abed, purveyor of “Community’s” fourth wall. ...