Super Bowl not an event worth watching
For many reasons, I did not watch the Super Bowl this weekend. Some were practical, such as the amount of work I had to do, the number of meetings I…
Day: February 5, 2014
Letter to the Editor 2/6/14
Tired. That was how I saw President Obama during his State of the Union Speech. This speech was very different from last year’s, which was hopeful of big legislation. Grand…
Playwriting aids Posse veteran in post-war healing process
The experience of a soldier needs no dramatization: War is more bloody, violent and emotionally tolling than imaginable. For that reason, it is most appropriate that a play dealing with…
Sidibé captures ’60s Malian new Africanism in Loeb exhibit
Entering the exhibition space at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC), the viewer immediately confronts a wall teeming with photographs encased in a variety of painted frames that shimmer…
Slater acquires dual perspective as actor and playwright
Most actors assume the character of someone else’s invention. Ethan Slater ’14, however, is able to dictate his own role in a musical he wrote, “Hubcrawl.” Slater has been working…
Paintings reflect Hudson Valley’s natural beauty
Perhaps art is a vessel through which we transcend the corporeal stuff of the everyday, transporting us instead to a greater, more spiritual place. Art like Asher B. Durand’s “Kaaterskill…
Dark family drama offers little enjoyment
August: Osage County, at least as presented by the trailers that were shown in movie theaters over the last few months, looks to have all the trappings of an “Oscar-bait”…
‘Blue’ examines facets of lesbian sexuality
“Blue is the Warmest Color” honestly depicts love and all its desperations. That said, the film is surrounded by controversy due to an abundance of misrepresented and dramatized lesbian intercourse.…
Tivey ’12 returns to origin of musical debut
Kristen Tivey ’12 once made her music debut playing at an open-mic night her freshman year in Cushing. Now, Tivey is an up-and-coming artist who is finding her way in…