What do you get when Picasso, a bartender named Freddy, Einstein, a beautiful blonde, a Neo-Romanticist, and Elvis walk into a bar? “It was a fever dream — but I liked it,” said Lauren Hearne, who attended the dress rehearsal of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on March 23. The Tower Players’ latest production opens...
“The power of hindsight is the most effective tool in the writer’s toolbox,” said internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma on Tuesday night in Plaster Auditorium. Obioma came to campus as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers Series, and on Tuesday, gave a lecture titled “Objects in the Mirror are Closer than They Appear:...
The temperature is above 40 degrees in March, the sun is shining, and absolutely no song fits the mood better than the smooth, breezy melodies of “Cruisin’” by Huey Lewis and the News feat. Gwyneth Paltrow. That is, until musical sister trio HAIM’s “Gasoline” entered the scene last month and presented itself as a serious...
It all started at three in the morning for Mattie. “My love for plants kind of happened. It just took off from one night over the summer,” Mattie said. “I started researching plants and landscaping until three in the morning. Then I began landscaping my parents’ yard back home.” Schmidt, a junior and rhetoric and...
Bob Dylan’s classic album “Bringing It All Back Home,” celebrating its 56th birthday on March 22, should become an anthem for a generation of conservatives who find themselves preserving things so radically counter-cultural they seem altogether new. Millennials will know Dylan for “Make you Feel My Love,” a song beautifully covered by Adele. Country music...