Student-curated exhibition brings Native American art to forefront
Many scholars believe that Native American culture currently finds itself in a troubling situation: too many people think of it only in the past tense...
Arts
The Limit hosts famed improv comedy troupe UCB
The traditionally cheeky publication The Onion called the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) “witty, irreverent, and conceptually ambitious.” For once, readers should know that The Onion was serious. UCB is a…
Restoration-era England a vehicle for Kushner farce
Philaletheis, a Vassar student theater organization, will soon be producing the five-act play Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, a modern-day farce loosely based on the life of Sir…
Junior year experiences make Rieur a stand-up veteran
For most Vassar students, the idea of a Junior Year Abroad (JYA) would not include spending a semester in the Midwest. For Lucia Rieur ’14, however, spending her JYA in…
Britney Jean not as personal as promised
Since Britney Spears exploded onto the music scene in 1998 with her wide smile and sharp dance moves, the former Mouseketeer has remained an American pop cultural mainstay. But after…
Catching Fire further alienates protagonist
After my first viewing of the second installment of The Hunger Games trilogy, I felt emotionally assaulted. For the majority of the film, your eyes and ears endure an onslaught…
Biopic bland despite strong performances
Dallas Buyers Club tells the story of Ron Woodruff, a man who was behind one of the “buyers clubs” which arose in the late ’80s to provide medication for AIDS…
Kids enter into Gordon Ramsey’s Masterchef mix
There’s nothing I love more than good reality television. It’s basically my bread and butter. With some of my favorite guilty pleasures winding down, though, I soon found myself in…
FLLAC to highlight black female identity
Kaleidoscope, a lecture series that joins a group of Vassar professors once a semester to discuss a work of art from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, is back after…
Devised theater troupe Britomartis focuses on family ties
Part classic American family drama, and part murder mystery, this semester the Britomartis Devised Theater Ensemble will examine family dynamics in their show Game Night: A Three Act Tragedy. The…