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 ...
Arts & Culture
Backstage Pass: Duchampion
Duchampion is a Wesleyan band made up of Ben Seretan ’10, Asa Horvitz ’10, Will Brant ’10, and Jake Nussbaum ...
Balancing Kil Ripkin
A huge picture of Malcolm X covers the background of the MySpace Music page belonging to Kil Ripken, an up ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
HIMYM Diaries
First off, we hope you all had a very pleasant Hanukkah (we might as well go with the majority demographic ...
In Defense of…“Gossip Girl” (the books)
“Gossip Girl” has been lambasted for its depiction of vapid socialites-in-training who in between the usual teenage woes—boys and grades—blithely ...
Minneapolis Choreographer Brings “Heaven” to CFA
This weekend the Center For the Art’s Breaking Ground Dance Series will play host to an outpouring of ecstasy and ...