Jacob Shamsian
Release Editor
2015 English and History
jacob@bupipedream.com
103 Articles
Movies
Celebrate the rise of black cinema with these 6 films
Here are six landmark movies that helped make black cinema a mainstream phenomenon, starting from the first movie made by a black director to “12 Years a Slave.” ...
Campus News
Pipe Dream sits down with the co-founder of Reddit
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit in 2005. He left the website in 2009, and since then, he’s advised other entrepreneurs, invested in startups and worked as an activist for open Internet laws. In...
Speakers
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian visits Binghamton University on book tour
Though they couldn’t “ask him anything,” Binghamton University students were treated to a night with Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the website Reddit. ...
Theater
Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, a master
Hoffman, however, manages to make Cotard a character who will endure in our minds long after watching the film instead of someone who gets lost in the movie’s complicated structure. ...
Movies
Counting down our favorite Woody Allen movies
Now with the directing of 44 full-length features under his belt, Allen’s personal stamp is evident regardless of genre. ...
Lifestyles
The Bing-U Secret is out
Fred Cohen, a senior majoring in chemistry, runs Bing-U Secrets, a popular Facebook page that posts anonymous text submissions and has become something of a Binghamton University phenomenon. ...
Lifestyles
BU students laugh with mom, dad and Demetri Martin
“I asked one of the ladies who works at your events staff what your mascot is,” Martin said. “She said, ‘It’s a bearcat, they exist.’” ...
Campus News
WHRW revives sci-fi broadcast
Now 75 years later to the day, WHRW 90.5 FM will broadcast Welles’ radio play. Its event, “From Mercury to Mars: Welles and War of the Worlds at 75,” will celebrate the ...
Movies
'Gravity' is miles above every other film in theaters
“Gravity” is obviously influenced by the visuals of “2001: A Space Odyssey” – it is perhaps the most technologically ambitious movie set in space since then – but Cuarón also responds to ...
Music
Fans kickstart DreamReel's debut album
DreamReel’s Kickstarter for their self-titled album began on Sept. 26 and hit its $600 goal just four days afterward, following a performance by Shapiro at the WHRW World Radio Concert that prompted ...