The Durham Fair: On the Spectacle of Americana
1916: You might know it as the year Woodrow Wilson was re-elected, the year the first Planned Parenthood clinic opened, ...
Arts & Culture
Sound on Sound Preview: Red Hot Chili Peppers and John Mayer to Headline
Turns out the biggest musical event in Connecticut is not in Mezzo’s on a Thursday. Enter Sound on Sound, a ...
SHADES Is Back for the Fall Semester with New Productions and Passions
SHADES—Wesleyan’s theater collective for Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian students—held an open mic for their first event this semester on Saturday, Sept. 16 ...
Poems of Our Climate: In Turn of Starvation
About the Column: Poems of Our Climate is a weekly poetry column run by Ava Guralnick ’25. The column was ...
Professors Rachel Heng and Maaza Mengiste Open 2023–24 Russell House Reading Series
On the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 20, Assistant Professor of English Rachel Heng and Professor of English Maaza Mengiste opened this ...
Arts Roundup Part 2: Film and Theater
The University’s Theater and Film Departments and student groups are on track to host a variety of enticing events this semester. If ...
Boldy James Captivates Audience at Beckham Hall
Students gathered to witness rapper Boldy James play a one-off show at Beckham Hall, the first of the Concert Committee’s ...
Olivia Rodrigo Comes In Swinging With GUTS-y Sophomore Album
If you thought Olivia Rodrigo was going to be a one-hit wonder, you’d better buckle up because her sophomore album, ...
“John Waters: A Legacy of Shock” Exhibit Opens at Center for Film Studies
John Waters’ films took him from the dive bars of Baltimore to Broadway and Hollywood. Well, in a sense, considering ...
Cinefiles: 9/13–9/16
Cinefiles is a column by the Film Board that introduces and reviews the films showed by the Wesleyan Film Series ...