We need art in times like these
When the first college I applied to rejected me, I watched the pilot episode of New Girl for the first time. All I knew about the show was that Jess,…
Arts
As life moves onward, the magic of Pixar never fades
Like many members of my generation, I grew up watching Pixar films. When I was in kindergarten, I obsessed over “Toy Story” and “Monsters, Inc.,” watching them so many times…
Indie pop debut puts life on pause
This morning I stood in line to get into Whole Foods. It was raining and cold and I was not aptly dressed. My Birkenstocks were collecting raindrops and I looked…
Thank ABBA for ‘Old Town Road’
In 1986, three years before he would release “Pretty Hate Machine,” Trent Reznor attended a Depeche Mode concert. As the concert came to an end, Depeche Mode, who were on…
We’re bored, so you must be, too: 13 shows to wile away the next month
As our possibile activities contract to include primarily those which can be performed while sedentary, the Misc Executive Board has collected our favorite longform viewable media, listed by running time.…
An anthem of anxiety, a blague of technology: Wolfson exhibition falls short
Standing in front of the giant holographic installation, as images of white faces painted in black and dressed in clown costumes flashed over and over, anger erupted in me. The…
Printmaker relates engraving to artistry, personhood, nature
It was a dark and stormy Wednesday afternoon. Well, not exactly stormy, but misty, the gentle spray of raindrops that does not quite warrant an umbrella but is enough to…
VRDT broaches caffeine, geometry, memory for gala
The Bardavon, a downtown Poughkeepsie opera house built in 1869, will host the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s (VRDT) 38th annual gala weekend on Saturday, Feb. 29 at 8 p.m. and…
Mug welcomes womxn, nonbinary DJs to take up turntables
Thirteen bodies crowded around a CDJ—the digital music players with turntables—in the Mug on Thursday, Feb. 20, including a mannequin wearing a cowboy hat. I tried to decode the equipment…
Hudson Valley breeds boisterous, tear-jerking indie
The Hudson Valley is known for not being New York City. Therein lies its charm. Resisting geographic proximity to the city, Poughkeepsie, Beacon, New Paltz and their neighbors kiss the…