Chappell Roan has been hailed as “L.A.’s queer pop superstar in the making,” but her path toward stardom was anything but traditional. Born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, the singer entered the music industry at 17 after uploading her original music to YouTube. Amstutz adopted the stage name Chappell Roan in memory of her deceased grandfather, Dennis K. […]
A cheerful celebration of the Center for the Arts’ (CFA) 50th anniversary took place during the rainy afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 23, sprawling throughout the various performance halls, the theater studios, and even the tunnels that connect them. The event, affectionately called the CFA’s 50th birthday party, heralded the 50th year since the 11-building complex opened its doors to the public. […]
Poet and Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University Evie Shockley inaugurated the WesPress x Shapiro Center for Creative Writing & Criticism series on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. This series aims to celebrate recent publications by the press’s authors. Shockley read from her new collection of poetry, “suddenly we,” fresh from its […]
The cat’s officially out of the bag: we’re all munching beaver here at Wesleyan. So we might as well talk about the film that broke the news. Actor Rachel Sennott and director Emma Seligman have teamed up for the second time to create an absurd and fast-paced comedy, “Bottoms.” This time, Sennott worked alongside Seligman both […]
One Day Plays (OPD) returned to the Patrecelli ’92 Theater on Saturday, Sept. 23, kicking off the Spike Tape 2023–24 season. All within the span of 24 hours, students wrote, directed, and performed seven one-act plays. Two to three writers worked on each play from 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22 to 2 a.m. on Saturday, Sep. 23; […]
If all good girls go to heaven, then all sad girls are destined for Nashville. At least, that’s how it goes in Mitski’s newest album, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We. In her seventh full-length studio album to date, released about a year and a half after her previous album, Mitski takes a […]
1916: You might know it as the year Woodrow Wilson was re-elected, the year the first Planned Parenthood clinic opened, or the year Dadaism made its mark on the art world. But to the residents of Middlesex County, it was the first-ever Durham Fair. What began as a humble agricultural exposition with a crowd of […]
Turns out the biggest musical event in Connecticut is not in Mezzo’s on a Thursday. Enter Sound on Sound, a two-day music festival at Bridgeport’s Seaside Park, on the banks of the Long Island Sound. Headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trey Anastasio Band, and Lord Huron will grace the stage on Saturday, Sept. 29. Connecticut […]
SHADES—Wesleyan’s theater collective for Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian students—held an open mic for their first event this semester on Saturday, Sept. 16 in the backyard of 202 Cross St. SHADES was founded in 2015 as a space for students of color (SOC) to share their love of theater and as a way to combat racism in both the […]
About the Column: Poems of Our Climate is a weekly poetry column run by Ava Guralnick ’25. The column was founded by Oliver Egger ’23 as a part of the literary magazine group Route 9. Submit and read past issues of The Lavender at Route9.org. If you are interested in having your poem featured in this column, please […]