With Maisie Peters having released the deluxe version of her second studio album, The Good Witch, (2023) on Friday, Oct. 27, now seems like a good time to look at the album in its entirety, including the six new deluxe tracks. The Good Witch is unapologetically dramatic, full of scream-it-out-the-car-window choruses. Peters opens the deluxe track […]
“Almost, Maine”—a Spike Tape production co-directed by Fana Schoen ’24 and Shane Kleber ’24—premiered in the Westco Café on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 7:00 p.m., with two additional shows on Friday, Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 29 at 7:00 p.m. Though “Almost, Maine” was performed at the University before in 2015, this is […]
The first half of the semester was jam-packed with musical events filling the Center of the Arts (CFA) halls with everything from Sunny Jain’s “Wild, Wild East” to celebrate the CFA’s 50th anniversary to electronic music performances spread out across three chapters of the experimental performance “between systems and grounds.” The second half of the semester […]
What would you do if one by one, all of your children began dying in horrific and grotesque ways? Such is the premise of Mike Flanagan’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The latest installment in Flanagan’s growing repertoire of critically […]
We as a society have finally—FINALLY!—moved past the need for Matty Healy. Sam Cieri and his alternative indie rock band, Nicotine Dolls, are proof of that. Formed in 2017, the Brooklyn-based band consists of frontman Cieri, guitarist John Hays, bassist John Merritt, and drummer Abel Tabares. You may be familiar with Cieri’s singing: He competed […]
Continuing their packed calendar of events for the fall semester, the Shapiro Center for Writing and Criticism held their first of two talks with Shapiro-Silverberg Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Damion Searls on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 12:15 p.m. The event promoted “Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories,” a new release in Searls’ catalog, and encouraged students and faculty […]
“About Her” by Dennis Bush—directed by Senica Slaton ’26 with assistant director Skye Figueroa ’26, and produced by Spike Tape—went up in the Patricelli ’92 Theater on Friday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. “About Her” tells the story of Sharla (Hyacinth Tauriac ’25), who recounts […]
British rapper Little Simz, or Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo, closed out her North American Tour for her latest album NO THANK YOU (2022) at Terminal 5, NYC on Saturday, Oct. 14. Simz’s previous album Sometimes I Might be Introvert (2021) defined her focus on finding validation through herself rather than through external forces. While in that […]
Renowned French-Algerian dancer and choreographer Nacera Belaza visited the University last week to perform the U.S. debut of her dance, “L’Onde,” on Friday, Oct. 13 and Saturday, Oct. 14. Her Saturday performance was followed by a talkback with Assistant Professor of Anthropology A. George Bajalia and Director for the Arts Joshua Lubin-Levy ’06 and a […]
In his “Meditations,” Emperor Marcus Aurelius thanks his grandfather for keeping him out of school, describing it as one of the most significant gifts of his life. Although Marcus was an avid pupil of Stoic philosophy, most Romans of his class endured a curriculum of rote memorization that left them incurious and averse to education. […]