Arts

Kacey Musgraves Points to Where Country Music Ought to Go

Arts

At the home studio of Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves recorded the new sound of country music. In her latest album Golden Hour—the East-Texas singer-songwriter’s thirteen-song tribute to love and humanity—Musgraves has made waves in how the music industry views country music.

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With “Like Thunder,” WE Wows Once Again

Arts

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and appropriately, Conn students performed the annual Women’s Empowerment Initiative show on...

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Call Me by Your Name Relaxes Viewers with Aesthetics, Seizes with Emotional Intensity

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A stylistic and subtle two-hour-plus journey, director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is a beautiful film that wrestles...

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Forgive or Forsake: When an Artist Messes Up

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I read a fantasy book once that absolutely blew my mind. It was The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, and it changed how I perceived every other fantasy novel.

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A Look Back at the 2018 Oscars

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Everybody knew that the Oscars were not going to be purely about film, and to nobody’s surprise, they were not....

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Sophomore Playwright Snubs the Canon with Secret Macbeth

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“No it works, trust me!” were the words of Aidan Gorrell ’18 to his mother when he explained to her over the phone how Wig and...

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Torrey Pines Combines Queer Identity and Punk Spirit with Childlike Wonder

Arts

It began—like almost all films—with a clean, black slate. No color, except for that conjured up in audience members’ minds from the sounds of a whispering, spraying ocean.

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At the Center of Intersections, Natalie Bookchin’s Network Effects

Arts

The dark room that contains Natalie Bookchin’s media works creates an ambiance for the difficult, startling journey that she takes the...

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Theater Department Performs a Salient Spring Awakening

Arts, Reviews

When I entered Palmer Auditorium for a special-access viewing of the Theater Department’s dress rehearsal for the Tony Award-winning...

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U.S. Girls Releases Political Album “A Poem Unlimited”

Arts, Reviews

“A Poem Unlimited,” the new album from the band U.S. Girls, discusses the trials of women’s lives in a contemporary sexist society in...

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Timberlake Underwhelms at Super Bowl Halftime

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The 2004 Super Bowl halftime show unraveled mass hysteria throughout the country. ...

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