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‘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.
Urinetown satirizes capitalism, climate change at ’62 Center

Urinetown satirizes capitalism, climate change at ’62 Center

Kathryn Cloonan November 15, 2023
Members of the Urinetown cast and production team discuss the process of putting on the musical, which opens this week at the '62 Center.
Theatre department explores girlhood, competition, ambition in Dance Nation

Theatre department explores girlhood, competition, ambition in Dance Nation

Dilay Kalınoğlu November 8, 2023
The cast and production team of the theatre department's Dance Nation discuss themes in the play.
Tu Le of 328North’s monthly pop-up discusses culture, his outlooks on conformity

Tu Le of 328North’s monthly pop-up discusses culture, his outlooks on conformity

Bezawitt Lulseged November 8, 2023
Artist-chef Tu Le spoke with a Record reporter about his pop-up restaurant and philosophy behind his art.
Students reflect on Hasan Minhaj controversy and his performance in Williamstown Theatre Festival

Students reflect on Hasan Minhaj controversy and his performance in Williamstown Theatre Festival

Maya Prakash November 8, 2023
Students discuss contentious New Yorker article about Hasan Minhaj and the ethics involved in comedy.
Cap & Bells presents student-written plays The Favour and Put the Fun in Funeral in Fall Play Festival

Cap & Bells presents student-written plays The Favour and Put the Fun in Funeral in Fall Play Festival

Shane Stackpole and Ellie Davis October 31, 2023
Students involved with the Fall Play Festival discuss the process of putting on The Favour and Put the Fun in Funeral.
DJ Booth: DJ Kevo ’25

DJ Booth: DJ Kevo ’25

Serigne Ndione October 31, 2023
Kevin Pepin ’25 reflects on his journey in becoming DJ Kevo.
Review: Looks that did the most this Halloween

Review: Looks that did the most this Halloween

Shane Stackpole and Safiyah Anwar-Chuku October 31, 2023
Though we may not have a Met gala, we do have Halloweekend to push the boundaries of fashion and set new trends for the upcoming season. Take a look at some of this year’s most innovative, fashion-forward, and thought-provoking costumes.
Installation view of Trust Me (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, August 19, 2023-February 2024). From left to right: Moyra Davey, Trust Me, 2011; Laura Aguilar, Nature Self Portrait #6, 1996; Dakota Mace, Béésh Łigaii II, 2022; Genesis Báez, Crossing Time, 2022; Alvin Baltrop, The Piers (collapsed architecture, couple buttfucking), 1979; Barbara Hammer, Barbara & Terry, 1972; Laura Aguilar, Plush Pony #2, 1992; Lola Flash, Untitled, Provincetown, MA, 1990; DAngelo Lovell Williams, Elysian, 2018; Mary Manning, His Estate, 2022; Jenny Calivas, Self-Portrait While Buried #12, 2021; Jenny Calivas, Self-Portrait While Buried #16, 2021; Genesis Báez, The Sound of a Circle, 2018. (Photo courtesy of Ron Amstutz.)

Prof. Genesis Báez photographs intimacy in Whitney exhibit ‘Trust Me’

Luke Chinman October 24, 2023
Photographs by Genesis Báez, a visiting lecturer in art at the College, are part of "Trust Me," a new Whitney exhibit that explores intimacy and connection.
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