The new year will come with unrealistic promises, but a new you can start with a new look.

In the Internet era, the "award show" is an outdated institution.

Fading West is a consistent, albeit slight, album that forgoes the doom and gloom of some of Switchfoot's more recent works, but ultimately, doesn't have much to show for itself.

This weekend in the arts, the Tony-award winning musical Once will be performed at the Boston Opera House, a 50 Shades of Gray parody will be presented at Citi Shubert Theatre, and the Plain White T's will be making their way to Boston College.

Goulding's latest video is bursting with colors, but has little to add to the song.

High Hopes is a disjointed album with a few standouts mixed with clunkers.

For those dreaded two weeks during mid-December, the Boston College libraries become students' new homes.