Poems to Answer All of Your Questions? A Reading and Discussion with Terrance Hayes
By Lily Lopate Poet Terrance Hayes has recently visited Bryn Mawr College to conclude the fall semester of the Creative Writing department’s ‘Reading Series.’ As a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry for his most recent collection, Lighthead (2010), as well as a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, and Pushcart Prize, and...
OPP: A Glimpse of Capitalistic Racial Injustice
By Ashley Reid A bald man’s head branded with the Nike symbol, a reproduction of a Gap Red ad, altered with the words Ebony Life, and a photo-and-film combination of a man slam-dunking a basketball through a lynching noose. These are just some of the striking and shocking images at Hank Willis Thomas’ art show...
Are the Grammys Actually Important?
By Julie Mazziotta For movies and television, awards shows are a dime a dozen. In January and February, the same group of actors and directors dress up and head to Hollywood for every event; the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Directors Guild, and of course, the Oscars. Musicians, despite the enormous pool...
The Fashion Beat: Haute couture
by Morgan Turner Columnist When I say the words haute couture (silent “h”, but you knew that, right?), what comes to mind? If you’re picturing something expensive, precisely crafted, and completely impractical, you’re not alone. There are many answers but the term haute couture is applied perhaps too liberally. Fashion bloggers, style writers, and photographers...
Bryn Mawr gets a good laugh at the expense of mistaken identities in “Comedy of Errors”
by Alicia Ramirez Staff Writer Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” embodies the one of the best parts of acting in the theater: being part of an ensemble. According to director Jennifer Lopatin, BMC ’13, this is why she chose to direct this play as opposed to another of Shakespeare’s works. “It is such an ensemble piece...
Poet Jean Valentine creates a new world with words
by Alicia Ramirez Staff Writer “Art is made from language and it describes a whole new world, art makes a sanctuary,” said poet and Bryn Mawr College Creative Writing professor J.C. Todd. Indeed it does. As the second writer to grace Bryn Mawr’s Creative Writing Program Reading Series, poet Jean Valentine transformed Goodhart Auditorium’s Music...
Bang: Clowning Around With Desire
Ashley Reid Staff Writer Though I thought I’d walked into the Hepburn Teaching Theater, I quickly found reality to be a slippery concept; I had actually stepped into the strange world of “Bang.” “Bang”, a show by alumnae Charlotte Ford ’02, was a commedia dell’arte show that ran from April 6th to April 8th and...
Anne Carson’s “Cassandra Float Can” & “Bracko”: a Provocative Exchange between Modes of Expression
Taylor Stone Arts Editor This past Wednesday, audiences at Haverford College were treated to a unique array of stimulants during poet and classicist Anne Carson’s presentation of Cassandra Float Can (an essay on translation) and Bracko (an evocation of Sappho), collaborative pieces with Robert Currie, artist and Benjamin Miller, composer. The two creative pieces, though...
Of Monsters and Men: Far from Home but with Plenty to Be Happy About
By Lauren Gill Staff Writer In August 2011, Philadelphia’s Radio 104.5 debuted Of Monsters and Men’s triumphant wall of Icelandic sound “Little Talks.” Fast forward to April 2012 and the sextet has sold out shows in a matter of minutes across the U.S. even before their album “My Head is an Animal” hit American soil....
“Colors of Greece” Exhibit Displays Colorful Depth of Greek Modernist Art
Taylor Stone Arts Editor Nestled within the walls of the Rare Book Room of Canaday Library is a new exhibition exploring rich themes such as artistic design and cultural life in modern Greece, topics not easily confined in a single space but extraordinarily presented in this artistic display “Colors of Greece: The Art and Archaeology...
A Sneak Peak at “Strangeland”: A Return to The Old Keane Days?
Ashley Reid Staff Writer Chimes and a piano delicately ring. A drumbeat gradually appears. A bright and soft melody begins playing. Tom Chaplin’s voice sings, ”In a city like mine there’s no point in fighting/ I close my eyes and see, you and me driving, if I am a river you are the ocean. Got...