Armantrout reflects modern life’s chaos in Russell House reading
As poet Rae Armantrout prepared to read from her new manuscript “Dark Matter,” she fussed with a momentarily malfunctioning podium ...
Arts & Culture
Student of Color studio artists question campus opportunities
Four weeks after the close of Skittles, the second annual Student of Color art show, several of the participating artists ...
Sold-out Jubilee show electrifies Crowell audience
Blending passion, wit and expertise, "Jubilee," the University's annual Black Cultural Show, put a festive note at the end of ...
“Heavy Rocks!!” involves punk, metal and deep fryer
It’s a quiet Saturday night heavy with cold, and the suburban Connecticut landscape is crusted over with half a foot ...
Poet speaks candidly about life
“Can somebody kill those fucking romantic lights?” Those were Staceyann Chin’s first words at the mic. The 35-year-old Jamaican-born poet ...
Inventive clatter: Tennis-coats
Labeling Tenniscoats “lesser-known relatives of Deerhoof,” as many have done, is sort of like saying Mussolini and Michelangelo were long ...
Jeanine Basinger discusses Hollywood then and now
If you think the movie star life in Hollywood’s golden age was all autographs and red carpet photo ops, Chair ...
Movie review: “The Counterfeiters”
Save yourself? Or save everyone else? Perhaps one of drama’s greatest dilemmas, the question is also an incredibly difficult one ...
Record review: “Myths of the Near Future” Klaxons
Recent British music has been almost completely engulfed by post-Libertines, indie copy-cat bands. Songs about London have littered the pop ...
The Cine-Files
Today, I turn to my column with some dread, having just learned that William Buckley, famed wit and “crypto-Nazi,” died ...