Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Half the Sky,” a new book by New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn draws ...
Arts & Culture
In Defense of… The Jonas Brothers
Start with thin cute boys in skinny jeans (if you go to Wesleyan, you’re already attracted to this type on ...
Memphis Punk Rocker Jay Reatard Dead at 29
Shermon Wilmot, the head of Memphis’s Shangri-La Records, described the young Jamie Lee Lindsey as “almost like this Elvis-type figure ...
Professor Dalit Katz on the Israeli Film Festival
The Israeli Film Festival is underway every Thursday at 8 p.m. from Jan 28 to March 4 at the Goldsmith ...
Splendid Details: Color, Pattern, and Style as History
The newest exhibit at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies gallery, “Splendid Details,” is aptly named.
The Cine-Files
My, how time does fly. It seems like only days ago that we were packed into the Goldsmith for ALADDIN, ...
The Idiot Box: The Situation of Reality TV
Let’s be honest with ourselves. Since the early 2000s, reality television has become one of the most popular forms of ...
Backstage Pass: Duchampion
Duchampion is a Wesleyan band made up of Ben Seretan ’10, Asa Horvitz ’10, Will Brant ’10, and Jake Nussbaum ...
Between the Cracks: Five Underappreciated Albums
Two-thousand-and-nine, in music, has come and gone. The “X Best Albums of the Year” lists have been tabulated, written, criticized, ...
Contrasting Views on the Artistic Validity of James Cameron’s New Epic, Avatar
Two critics square off on Avatar.