Ali Eckstein can be reached at aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.
Content warning: This article references mental health, suicide, suicide attempts, death, loss of a parent, and loss of a pet. When I took my seat at the beginning of “Every Brilliant Thing” on Saturday, March 2, I didn’t know what to expect. Normally, I would do my research and try to understand the concept of […]
The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery premiered the studio art theses of six seniors on Wednesday, March 27, all of them grand, floor-to-ceiling pieces. Viewers were encouraged to move through the work, examine it from all angles, and step gingerly. The six pieces, while distinct, seemed to invite comparison—not for the viewer to let them blur together, but to […]
When Beyoncé released her leading singles “TEXAS HOLD ’EM” and “16 CARRIAGES,” discourse surrounding her entry into the country genre quickly erupted. Many supported her leap into a style that has historically been linked to discrimination against Black artists. In fact, she herself faced censorship for her performance of her country song “Daddy Lessons” (2016) at the 2016 Country […]
Ali Eckstein can be reached aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.
Who do the movies truly belong to? The question was on my mind as I watched the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. The themes of this year’s most prominent films included similar questions about possession and ownership of the narrative, and it felt like the structure of this year’s glitzy awards shows posed similar queries. […]
She’s back and gutsier than ever: Olivia Rodrigo has returned to her sophomore album with four new songs to create the deluxe edition of GUTS, titled GUTS (spilled). Released on March 22, 2024, the album features the original twelve songs from GUTS’ initial release in 2023 alongside five new songs. GUTS (spilled) was announced mid-concert during […]
After the success of his 2023 album Unreal Unearth, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier released Unheard, an EP of four songs that did not make the original album. These new additions round out Hozier’s modern retelling of Dante’s “Inferno,” with each song representing a layer of hell. Originally teased in a TikTok featuring the artist sketching a skeleton […]
Ali Eckstein can be reached at aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.
“Small Mouth Sounds,” the creative component of Nina Jakobson’s ’24 senior theater thesis, follows six participants on a five-day silent retreat as they struggle to find their true selves, guided by their unseen meditation leader (Leo Kaplan ’26). Jakobson stumbled upon the script last spring when her friend Kieran Gettel-Gilmartin ’25, an actor in the […]