With the economy in ruins and the unemployment rate skyrocketing, you’d think people would make more of an effort to support local businesses like bookstores. Right? Wrong. What’s the proof? The Kindle.

Manic-pixie-dream-girl extraordinaire Zooey Deschanel, star of Fox’s new sitcom New Girl , is one of the most contentious female celebrities in certain feminist circles. A crush object for a certain subset of self-professed nerdy girls and hipster guys, her sartorial stylings have spawned legions of haters and imitators, and many a blog has been devoted to her very existence.

Who’s that girl? It’s Zooey Deschanel, who is by no means a new girl in the entertainment world. She was the girl you loved and loved to hate in (500) Days of Summer and has starred in many movies including Elf and Yes Man . Now she’s playing the cute and bubbly elementary school teacher, Jess, living in an apartment with three guys.

With the title “Video Games,” one might expect a song extolling the virtues of Halo or Call of Duty. However, “Video Games,” the debut single by Lana Del Rey, is just boring. To be honest, the entire persona of Lana Del Rey is boring. So why are we so obsessed with her?

Poor Lana Del Rey. The 25-year-old singer has been subjected to some pretty harsh criticism over the past few months. Following her ill-advised performance on Saturday Night Live in early January and the subsequent release of her debut album Born To Die, she has been the critics’ and bloggers’ favorite punching bag. Rolling Stone called her vocals “pinched and prim,” which is polite compared to the writers of Pitchfork magazine, who described her as “a highly medicated Fiona Apple.”

Tonight the electronic music god Rusko, Christopher Mercer, will be performing at the Mullins Center on UMass’ campus. This British DJ describes his music as, “dubstep,” a genre well known for its heavy bass and techno feel.

By now you’ve probably heard something about Lana Del Rey — either through her popular song “Video Games” on the radio, or maybe through an extended piece about the anti-feminist nature of her transformation from a folk singer-songwriter into a video vixen with collagen-plumped lips who sings lyrics like:

“Open up a beer/And you say get over here and play a video game/I’m in his favorite sun dress/Watching me get undressed/Take that body downtown”

Thanks to a new group on campus, Doing It Live, Mount Holyoke is starting to rock a little bit harder. Founded by Anna Berlin ’15, the currently unofficial organization aims to bring more live music to campus.

When Isabella Stewart Gardner turned her private art collection and home into a public museum in 1903, she specified that nothing could be changed or moved: in this way, the museum might exemplify the conservatism of Boston’s cultural offerings. Surprisingly, the past year has seen expansions and overhauls of long-established Boston art museums, including two additions to the Museum of Fine Arts, the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art and the Art of the Americas Wing and a new building of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano.

The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed the words all over campus: hidden in plain sight on cluttered bulletin boards, or scribbled onto bathroom cubicles and sidewalks. I tacked on some posters of Moriarty myself. The campaign can be seen worldwide as a real-life tribute modeled after the viral marketing of “Who Killed Amanda Palmer,” from a few years ago.