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1-Down: To obtain in abundance
This week, we grapple with Halloween hangover and the countdown to fall recess. In this liminal space on the calendar, days feel like weeks. However, have no fear — the Arts section is here with this week’s installment of To Watch and Watch For, our specially curated list to help you keep track of time while also whiling it away, beginning with these four personal recommendations.
A commanding start
I had marked the Friday night I was going to watch Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl in theaters on my calendar for weeks. The weeks leading up to the official release date of The Life of a Showgirl, the latest album by the prolific showgirl herself, Taylor Swift, were filled with anticipation. On Oct. 3, the moment I got to press play on that album at midnight, I felt something completely electrifying: excitement, nerves and, above all, the certainty that I was about to witness a turning point in the music industry. And then, just a few days later, I got to experience the album release documentary that Swift prepared for her loyal fans to see in theaters all over the world. By the end of this experience, closing out release weekend for me, I was left smiling and more than satisfied with the 12 new additions to my daily rotation of songs. This album is everything I wanted it to be, even if not everyone agrees.
The subject of Henrietta Lacks remains an enduring mark of criticism on Hopkins as a reminder that scientific advancement has often come at the cost of ethical accountability. This legacy continues to be honored and examined today through events such as the annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture at Hopkins, an event that occurred recently on Oct. 4. This recent conversation sparked my renewed interest in one of my favorite books, Next by Michael Crichton.
After three back-to-back films fixating on the nature of human desire and love, Luca Guadagnino’s newest release, After the Hunt, forgoes his past thematic patterns in favor of a story meant to examine the ethical struggles of various power dynamics in higher education. Specifically, After the Hunt follows an up-for-tenure college professor, Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts), whose protégé, Maggie Resnick (Ayo Edeberi), accuses her colleague and professor, Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield), of sexual assault.
I am sitting on a fuzzy pink pillow in the apartment of my trainer, Dua, and I am about to share my whole life story from beginning to end with a group of five strangers.
On Oct. 28, the Student Government Association (SGA) came together for their weekly meeting. They discussed November tabling, the updated transparency act and recent changes to the positions document.
We had already seen Khalid in the summer at World Pride 2025, so the excitement that Hopkins finally had a somewhat mainstream artist for Hoptoberfest 2025 dwindled between us. Nevertheless, I donned my favorite pair of jeans and halter-top combo, and I giddily ran to the end of the line on Oct. 24.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley).
On Wednesday, Oct. 22 the Hopkins Lecture Series hosted an event titled, “An Evening in Conversation with Bradley Steven Perry.” This event marked the second event in the Hopkins Lecture Series’ Voices of Tomorrow Fall Speaker Series.
On June 2, President Ronald J. Daniels announced a series of budget cuts facilitated by the Faculty Budget Advisory Committee and the Johns Hopkins University Council to offset recent federal funding reductions. For academic departments, these initiatives included pausing annual pay increases for most employees, freezing hiring for new and existing staff positions, slowing capital projects involving research and reducing discretionary spending on travel and professional services.
Colors swirled in the Glass Pavilion on Sunday, Oct. 26 as the South Asian Students at Hopkins (SASH) organization hosted its annual Garba celebration from 6 to 10 p.m. Garba, a collective dance with roots in Gujarat, India, is part of the larger Hindu festival Navratri which celebrates the supreme goddess Durga. Attendees gathered for a night of food, drinks and fun as samosas, pakora and mango lassi were served for guests during the celebration.
The lungfish is a rarely studied organism, with scientific implications that extend far beyond its unassuming reputation. On Thursday, Oct. 23 the Biology Department Seminar Series featured Irene Salinas, an evolutionary immunobiologist at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque who presented her extensive research into the immunobiology of the African lungfish.
On Saturday, Oct. 18 the Office of Homewood Public Safety notified the University community about an attempted sexual assault on Decker Quad. According to Public Safety, an unknown man, about 30 years old, approached a female student for directions on Saturday evening and assaulted her, attempting to remove her clothes. Following the report, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) began investigating the case as an attempted rape with cooperation from the Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD) and Public Safety.
From Thursday, Oct. 23 to Saturday, Oct. 25 the Hopkins Student Organization for Programming (the HOP) hosted the annual Hoptoberfest, a multi-day collection of events to usher in the fall.
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Center for Social Concern (CSC) hosted a conversation on affecting change through social movements. As part of its Hop Talks series, the event aimed to create a space for respectful conversations about actionable change. The speakers included Hahrie Han, Erricka Bridgeford and Marci Yankelov. Organizers of the event explained their choice of guests in a virtual interview with The News-Letter.
As we push through the fall semester, take a minute to learn about some of the recent discoveries and developments in drug discovery, quantum computing and cancer treatment.
The University’s recent construction project, the forthcoming Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute (DSAI), promises to bring together experts and students “develop data science and AI” and “accelerate breakthroughs.” However, the project has faced significant pushback from community members and students who worry it will heighten the University’s community influence, raise housing costs and harm the environment. While the construction of DSAI has potential benefits for the University and the city at large, Hopkins should not disregard the needs of the surrounding Baltimore community to realize these.
The Grand Opening of the Bloomberg Student Center dining options occurred on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. Consisting of food choices such as Koshary Corner, Connie’s Chicken and Waffles, Tim Ma Hospitality and the Urban Oyster, the launch marked a new era of on-campus dining options.