‘Arts’ Archives
“Die a good man, or live as a monster” – Shutter Island: A Review
Martin Scorsese can’t seem to get enough of Leonardo DiCaprio. While I used to be among the skeptics of this collaboration, after watching their fourth film together, I can see how beneficial it [...]
V-Week Climaxes With The Vagina Monologues
As I write, I am concluding the most mentally and emotionally exhausting week of my entire life. This week was Connecticut College’s first V-week, a week celebrating women: our struggles, our [...]
Transvestites in Tansill Theater – The Rocky Horror Show
The arboretum gates had long since shut as I approached them one cold Thursday night as, back on campus proper, I could practically smell the first Natural Ices of the night being cracked and the [...]
Activism and Self-Promotion: Vinnie Angel Comes to Conn for V-Week
Purveyor of social and environmental justice consumer products Vinnie Angel appeared on campus last Tuesday in the Women’s Center with a stack of his coveted tampon cases and a slideshow depicting [...]
Hey Mr. DJ
If you were given the recipe for a night of fun, what would it include? Probably good friends, good food and good drinks. Definitely a good attitude. But what about good music? Well there are a group [...]
A Spacey Oddity: New Yeasayer Album Offers Fresh and Futuristic Sound
Brooklyn “buzz band” Yeasayer is back with their long-awaited sophomore album Odd Blood. The album is a freakish whirlwind of celestial synths and percussive samples that somehow meld into an [...]
The Return of the Trippy Green Skull
Last semester it was announced that Dan Deacon was performing at Conn. I didn’t know much about Deacon. I’d never heard any of his music before and had no idea what his performance style would [...]
The Oscars: Are 10 Best Picture Noms Helping Or Hurting Films?
Well, it’s the time of the year that all cinephiles love – Oscar season. While the football fans have their Super Bowl and the baseball fans have their World Series (is that right?), us film [...]
Danny and the Champions of the World: Streets of Our Time Album Review
It’s a sad state of affairs when most people wouldn’t touch anything “country” with a twenty-foot pole. Maybe it’s a general, deep-seated dislike of mandolin and pedal steel. I myself [...]
Hygienic Art XXXI Displays Student, Community and Phallic Art for All
The ruckus was evident throughout the city as Hygienic Art XXXI opened last Saturday at Hygienic Art Gallery with a collaborative exhibit more akin to a cabinet of curiosity than an art show. The [...]
Floaters: A Dazzling Alumni Creation
This being my first experience at Hygienic Art, I was somewhat surprised to see so many Conn students in downtown New London. I have always been somewhat of a hypocrite passing along the knowledge of [...]
A Decade in Film
1. There Will Be Blood (2007) There Will Be Blood is a film that teaches us a lesson about the enticing appeal of greed, corruption and hunger. While the movie is based on Upton Sinclair’s [...]
EP Review: “Fall Be Kind” by Animal Collective
Animal Collective, composed of nicknamed musicians Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deacon and Geologist, is one of the few bands that manages to get better with each new release. They have been constantly [...]
“Doubt”: A Terrible Bond and a Brilliant Play
“What do you do when you’re not sure?” Thus begins Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award-winning masterpiece on morality. A quiet and minimalist play, encompassing a single act (no [...]
Album Review: Them Crooked Vultures
Last year, after decades of producing little else but oh-so-sweet adult-pop and singer songwriter saccharine, Sir Paul McCartney dropped Electric Arguments, a collaboration with producer Youth [...]