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The Art Seen, a new virtual gallery intended to increase accessibility to art markets, currently displays and sells pieces by students at the College. (Image courtesy of Josie Overbeck.)

Nick Garlid ’25 launches The Art Seen digital gallery for student artists

Luke Chinman February 7, 2024
The Art Seen, a new digital gallery, seeks to give student artists a glimpse of the professional art world.
Images in Review: Poor Things

Images in Review: Poor Things

Rosario Carranza February 7, 2024
Rosario Carranza '27 reviews Oscar-nominated film Poor Things.
The Artist Otherwise Known As: Musician and songwriter Rein Vaska ’25

The Artist Otherwise Known As: Musician and songwriter Rein Vaska ’25

Shane Stackpole February 7, 2024
Rein Vaska '25 is a musician and songwriter who released an album last month.
Opera Workshop offered as Winter Study course,  performs Don Giovanni

Opera Workshop offered as Winter Study course, performs Don Giovanni

Rosario Carranza January 24, 2024
The College’s Opera Workshop was offered this year as a Winter Study course and is performing Don Giovanni.
Special Collections exhibit celebrates 125 years of Cap & Bells

Special Collections exhibit celebrates 125 years of Cap & Bells

Shane Stackpole January 24, 2024
Special Collections opened “Spotlight on Tradition: 125 Years of Cap & Bells” — a new exhibit that celebrates the 125th anniversary of the student theatre group — on Tuesday Jan. 16. The exhibit will be open through the first week of March.
‘Tunes for Goons’: First-years organize concert in Sage basement

‘Tunes for Goons’: First-years organize concert in Sage basement

Juno Pelczar and Haley Zimmerman January 24, 2024
First-year band members held a show in Sage basement as the first step toward expanding the live music scene on campus.
Students review the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s latest novel. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)

Students discuss consumerism, sensationalization, violence in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Kathryn Cloonan and Tatiana Geroulanou December 6, 2023
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, originally a novel written by Suzanne Collins, is the newest edition to the Hunger Games cinematic universe. The prequel follows a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) — the future dictator of the fictional nation Panem — as he mentors District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) in the 10th annual Hunger Games.
Emmy-nominated writer and executive producer Michael Sardo 81 returns to campus to teach Writing for Television.

ENGL 291: Writing for Television with Michael Sardo

Tatiana Geroulanou and Lily Cowles December 6, 2023
Emmy-nominated writer and executive producer Michael Sardo '81 returns to campus to teach Writing for Television.
Eurydice centers around the female lead instead of the male protagonist of the original Greek tragedy. (Photo courtesy of Annie Morrison.)

Cap and Bells’ Eurydice explores loss, love, joy

Ellie Davis December 6, 2023
Cap & Bells to present its production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl on Friday at 5:00 p.m., Saturday at 4:30 p.m., and Sunday at 7:00 p.m. in Goodrich Hall.
‘Pop-culture iconography’: Reflections on Troye Sivan’s Something To Give To Each Other

‘Pop-culture iconography’: Reflections on Troye Sivan’s Something To Give To Each Other

Josh Kirschner November 29, 2023
This past summer Troye Sivan's album: Something To Give To Each Other produced several chart topping hits but behind the fun party song is an important message about queerness.
Bottoms debrief: Students get underneath the new cult queer classic

Bottoms debrief: Students get underneath the new cult queer classic

Kathryn Cloonan and Tatiana Geroulanou November 29, 2023
It’s Superbad, it’s Fight Club… it’s also gay. Emma Seligman’s Bottoms is unapologetic — it’s a thrilling tale about two lesbian virgins trying to get some.
Berkshire Ballroom puts on its first ball at the College

Berkshire Ballroom puts on its first ball at the College

Shane Stackpole November 15, 2023
Participants of last weekend's Fall Ball discuss ballroom culture and its importance at the College.
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