The snowy walk to Crowell Concert Hall, the sparkle of salwar-kameez and kurtis under winter coats, and the echo of Disco Deewane during rehearsal presaged a successful Samsara performance on Saturday, Feb. 17 for many of us South Asians on campus. Samsara is a cultural performance put on annually by Shakti, the South Asian student group. […]
“Archival Methods in the Eclectic Collection(s),” an exhibition curated by Emma Steckline ’24 in partial fulfillment of her history capstone, opened in the Olin Memorial Library on Dec. 8, 2023. The exhibition takes up three glass display cases, otherwise known as vitrines, and is set up opposite the other student-curated gallery in Olin, “Sum of […]
The Shapiro Center for Writing and Criticism’s speaker series “The Critic and Her Publics” introduced its second conversation of the semester on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The event featured Jo Livingstone, who is a medieval literature scholar, a critic, and the 2020 National Book Critics Circle recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. After receiving a […]
Ah, the Beatles: the best-selling band in history. How could any of their songs be underrated? Well, as it turns out, even massively popular bands like the Beatles have their fair share of hidden gems. Here are the Beatles songs that I believe are often overlooked within their expansive and influential catalog. 5. “Oh! Darling” (Abbey […]
One by one and two by two, performers took to the spotlight in Spike Tape’s Spring 2024 Cabaret on Friday, Feb. 16 in the Patricelli ’92 Theater. As an amateur theater-goer, I had heard almost none of the pieces before. I’m sure for die-hard musical theater fans, it’s fun to follow along with old favorites, […]
Natalie Horberg can be reached at nhorberg@wesleyan.edu.
The stage is dark. A 19-year-old boy has just stood trial for premeditated patricide—in layman’s terms, the first-degree murder of his father. To decide the fate of this inner-city teenager, the court has summoned 12 jurors to a bleak jury room set up in the Patricelli ’92 Theater. The show played each night at 7 p.m. from […]
Alumni, faculty, and students were on hand for a reception held on Wednesday, Feb. 14 to open the new Pruzan Art Center and its first two exhibits: “Air Pressure” and “Corot and the Cliché-verre in Nineteenth-Century France.” Located between the recently completed Frank Center for Public Affairs (PAC) and Olin Memorial Library, the Pruzan Art […]
Mic Check celebrated its two-year anniversary on the top floor of the Allbritton Center, showcasing a killer set of artists with a vibrant crowd to match. On Saturday, Feb. 10, purple lights flooded out through the lofty windows, and a set by Lloyd Jones (DJ Lloyd) got the audience moving as people gathered around the […]
Ariana Blaustein can be reached at ablaustein@wesleyan.edu.