Our Town Hits Home
The Thornton Wilder classic Our Town has been commended for shying away from traditional theatrical plays, and Connecticut College’s production was no exception. While it is a play with little music and no…
Our Town: A Second Opinion
Director Leah Lowe’s production of Our Town is ambitious in scope, featuring a somewhat excessive running time of 150 minutes with two disorienting ten-minute intermissions (something usually done with plays that are three…
A Look at Hip-Hop’s Freshest New Voices
Hip-hop is changing again. Over time both its sound and its voices have grown more diverse. Like it or not, a bevy of young talent is flooding the scene, saturating a genre rooted…
Writing About “Write About Love”
If any group has perfected the creation of quirky indie pop, it’s Belle and Sebastian. They’ve been writing songs about love and loss, filled with jangly guitar and organ hooks, since many of…
Looking into Conn’s Reflexion: New spoken word club hopes to spread love of poetry throughout campus
“Fuck you!” said Kelli Bannister ’13, in the most congenial voice possible, followed with a bout of laughter. Witness the spoken word. It has the power to sway thoughts, evoke powerful emotions and,…
Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk: Decent humor fit only for the awkward thirteen-year-olds in all of us
Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, 229 pages of precisely calculated, punch-by-punch sex gags, is a compilation of charts, blurbs, anecdotes and hey-didja-knows from the “Association for the Betterment of Sex.” Perhaps more accurately,…
Quit Playing Games, Start Gaming: CC Gaming Club expands and experiments this year
Call them what you want. Nerds. Dorks. Whatever Jabba the Hut-type creatures the South Park kids turned into in the World of Warcraft episode. If you think that the members of the Connecticut…
Mango’s Pizza
A Mystic local, Stefan (nicknamed “Mango”) founded Mango’s Wood-Fired Pizza Company and has been deemed one of the best pizzaiolo in America, according to Mango’s website. He seems rather serious about his pizza…
Dev’s on Bank Street
Amidst the chaos and uncertainty that is typical of the New London restaurant scene—the oppressively empty dining rooms, erratic business hours and dubious food quality—only a few establishments have distinguished themselves from the…
Facebook Me, Mark – Could The Social Network be the best movie of the year? This reviewer thinks so.
Mark Zuckerberg did not expect to change the world when he created Facebook. He did not mean to become a billionaire. In The Social Network, we see a character who just wanted to…
An Open Letter to Sufjan Stevens, On the Release of His New Album
Dear Mr. Stevens, Hey there. It’s been awhile. I’ve missed you, and honestly, I’ve been a little concerned. Remember that Paste Magazine interview you did a year ago? You said “I no longer…
Superbad – (Cera + Hill + McLovin) + Clueless x The Scarlet Letter = Easy A
The last time an English class novel related this much to my life, I was in the first grade. We were reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Six…
A Camel on the Runway: Senior David Kelley makes it work as PA on Project Runway
Earlier this year, many Conn students received paid internships over the summer. David Kelley ’11 was not one of those students. “It was a job, not an internship,” he remarked. Last summer, Kelley…
A glance at the television season ahead
For most, September means the start of the school year: fall weather, new friends and distant memories of summer. For the TV obsessed (don’t judge), it means the start of a new season….
“The Lives of Giants”: Cambodian dancers hit the stage for first OnStage performance of the season
When watching a piece performed by the Khmer Institute, co-founded by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, it’s easy to become tantalized by the graceful dance and melodic atmosphere that the Cambodian dance creates. Enjoying the…
