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Arts & Culture

Backflips in a Restaurant Showcases grentperez Taking Risks and Reaping the Benefits

On Saturday, March 28, 2025, Australian singer/songwriter Grant Perez—known as grentperez—released his debut studio album, Backflips in a Restaurant. Perez, ...

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Rachel Trousdale Wins Inaugural Cardinal Poetry Prize for Debut Collection

On March 25, 2025, Wesleyan University Press (WesPress) published Rachel Trousdale’s “Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem,” the inaugural winner ...

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“A Heap of Broken Images” Fragments Realities

Noisy Visuals presented “A Heap of Broken Images” in the Hewitt Workshop from Thursday, April 3, through Saturday, April 5. ...

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“Goodnight” Grapples With Grief Through Radical Imagination

“Goodnight,” an original play written by Liang Liang ’26, premiered at WestCo Cafe on Friday, April 4, 2025, with additional ...

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World War II “Pencils, Wastebaskets, Etc.” Breaks Codes and Blazes Trails

In a cross talk, two writers sit down to discuss a book, movie, TV show, or a piece of art ...

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I Know You’re Playing Pretend: “Life in Plastic”

In J.D. Salinger’s novella, “Seymour: An Introduction,” Buddy Glass reflects on his brother’s suicide at 31 in what is ostensibly ...

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Poem: “The Wharf”

This poem is an interpretation of “The Yellow Crane Tower” by Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao 崔顥 (704–754). The original ...

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Artgus Artist Spotlight: En Garde! Thomas Purello ’25 Brings Medieval Warfare to Middletown With “2674”

The first week of Art Studio Thesis exhibitions went up in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery on Tuesday, March ...

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First Week of Senior Art Studio Thesis Exhibitions Makes a Statement

From Tuesday, March 25 to Saturday, March 29, 2025, the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery kicked off this year’s Art ...

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The Best of Baumbach: Which Noah Baumbach Movies to See and Why

Noah Baumbach is a critically acclaimed director who makes personal movies that are hilarious and beautiful. In this article, I ...