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An Interview with Accent: NYC’s Best-Kept Secret

It’s time to get familiar with Accent. This talented emcee has been rapping for eight years, delivered a terrific opening set at the Kinetics & One Love concert on November 19, and just…

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Gambino Not So Childish

“Hard for a Pitchfork, soft for a Roc-A-Fella/Music was my side chick, but now we’re moving in together,” read the opening raps on Childish Gambino’s EP, the first rap project from the multi-talented…

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All That Jazz

Last Wednesday, the college’s Music Department hosted its All That Jazz concert, highlighting the school’s Traditional Jazz Band and Jazz Ensemble. Both bands feature students, alumni and members of the staff and are…

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Dissecting Descendants

I had my doubts from the beginning. George Clooney, a script full of daddy issues and the perpetually pregnant girl from The Secret Life of the American Teenager all in one movie? And,…

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Breaking Dawn Breaks Expectations

I liked the new Twilight movie. Whoops.   This is a particularly problematic and embarrassing revelation for me. In addition to being a snooty critic of cinematic craftsmanship, I have also spent the past…

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An Interview with Kinetics

Two weeks ago, we had the privilege of hosting Kinetics & One Love on campus, where they rocked a sold-out show to over 400 people in the 1941 Room. If you were part…

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration At Its Best

Fluxus, meaning “flow” in Latin, is dead terminology and gibberish to most. But in actuality, “fluxus” stands for a local, in-the-now art movement here at Conn, and an international and historical movement that…

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Coldplay-ed Out

While sitting in my room listening to the new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto, I was terrified that some mysterious music police would bust down my door at any moment and strip me of…

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Artist Profile: Yulia Khaitov

“Faces. I love faces,” gushed freshman art student Yulia Khaitov. “In my digital art class in high school, we all got paired up with a classmate and our assignment was to age them…

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Of MetaMaus and Men

I spilled a hot cup of cider on my sweater when I saw Art Spiegelman lounging with English professor and Writer in Residence Blanche Boyd outside of Shain last Tuesday. Pulling wet wool…

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Artist Profile: Catherine Monahon

It feels great to make art. Self-expression, whether through painting, dancing or music always feels good. When does one transcend making art or expressing oneself and actually take on the title of artist?…

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24 Hour Theater Returns

Last Saturday night saw the performance of six original plays that had not existed twenty-four hours earlier.  Wig and Candle, Conn’s student theater society, put on its second production of 24 Hour Theater…

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Dear Tick, You Suck

Within the first six or seven minutes of Divine Providence, you know what’s up with Deer Tick. “I got a lust for life and a dangerous mind,” screeches John McCauley on “The Bump”,…

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Not In Time

Fifty-two. According to Metacritic.com, 52/100 is the average review of every film featuring Justin Timberlake. It’s not great, and without a certain lucky break landing an Oscar-nominated role in The Social Network (I’ve…

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History’s Best Bro-down Comes to Conn

The political environment that exists today in the United States is dominated by professional politicians manufactured especially to be elected. Perfectly groomed hair, flag lapel pins and the perfect tie have all become…

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