Ali Eckstein can be reached at aeckstein@wesleyan.edu.
This album review discusses themes of domestic and sexual abuse. On Friday, April 5, Lizzy McAlpine released her third studio album, Older, a 14-track collection of melancholy reflections on her relationship to identity, love, and mental health. With this lyric and melody-focused release, indie pop-folk darling McAlpine has pushed into a nostalgic soundscape while maintaining […]
Senior thesis season is now well underway, and with it comes a new batch of exhibitions to the Ezra and Camille Zilkha Gallery every week—the products of massive amounts of creativity and dedication from artists now in their last few months at the University. In this third week of exhibitions, the works were evenly split between exploring […]
Ariana Blaustein can be reached at ablaustein@wesleyan.edu.
As dusk fell on Friday, April 5, I joined many other theatergoers in shuffling down the steps to WestCo Café, scanning a QR code to access a program, and sitting down to enjoy the student-written show “Dear Mommy.” It felt like sitting down to watch any other Spike Tape show. What I couldn’t predict, however, […]
“Exploding and Netting: A Somatic Archive of Transpacific Movement,” a student-curated exhibition, opened in the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies on Thursday, Feb. 29 and will remain open until Saturday, May 25, 2024. The exhibition features the work of Loren Yuehan Wang ’25 and was curated by Yijing Lai ’24 and Xiran Tan ’24. […]
Found Heaven, Conan Gray’s ’80s-inspired third LP, is a tour de force. Released on Friday, April 5, 2024, it’s also a major thematic and sonic shift from his previous two albums, Kid Krow (2020) and Superache (2022). Prior records focused on a yearning for romantic connection. For instance, in “People Watching,” a song from Superache, […]
The second installment of Art Studio theses was showcased at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery this week, with an opening reception on Wednesday, April 3. A large audience of students, family members, and professors gathered eagerly to witness six captivating installations, each representing the culmination of a year-long journey, exploring and iterating in different mediums. […]
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 […]