“I can’t really say what it is yet, but I’m going to start a new way of presenting this music and it’s going to happen on Friday,” said Chris McCourry, director of jazz studies and trumpeter for the Hillcats. “It’s going to be revolutionary.” This Friday at 8 p.m in McNamara Rehearsal Hall, the Hillcats...
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November 21, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Kendrick Lamar, “i” love myself
Earlier this semester, after months of silence, King Kendrick finally dropped his new single. The world listened to his new offering. The birds sat silent on their branches out of respect for the king. And when the last echo of Kendrick’s voice had faded, the world tilted its head to one side and uttered bemused...
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November 21, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
Spanish class performing student-written work
Professor of Spanish Olga Muñiz is giving her Intensive Intermediate Spanish class the chance to not just read Spanish literature, but do their best to write some. The class read “El Delantal Blanco,” translated “The White Apron,” a Spanish one-act play by Sergio Vodanović. The ironic, witty play finishes on an open-ended note, leaving the...
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November 21, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
“The Misanthrope” and haute couture
A suit-jacket with shorts. A face-encompassing hat. A glittering chartreuse jacket. High fashion meets the Tower Players in their latest production, “The Misanthrope” by Molière. The 1666 play was originally set in French High Court, but director George Angell has brought the performance into the modern day. The show opened last night and will run...
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November 21, 2014July 12, 2022Culture
What Makes Good Photography
If you know me, you probably know that I’m at nearly every campus event, camera in hand. I take a lot of pictures. Yet answering the question what makes a photograph “good” is something I can only scratch the surface of. There are many disciplines of photography, from photojournalism to landscape photography and everything in...