Sadie Howard, Staff Writer
November 3, 2023
On Monday, Obies for Undocumented Inclusion hosted Media Night at the Cat in the Cream as part of their 2023 Undocuweek. Other events from Undocuweek included a symposium on migration last Friday and Saturday, an UndocuAlly training on Thursday, and a dodgeball game on Friday. Initially, Media Night was supposed to be a screening of short films from The Center for Cultural Power, but due to availability issues, it was changed to the Danish film Flee (2021), an animated documentary about Afghan refugee...
Kathleen Kelleher, Senior Staff Writer
October 27, 2023
“Six Winters Gone Still,” a short film written and directed by Associate Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Justin Emeka, OC ’95, has been recognized and awarded by film festivals across the world. The film, which was shot in Oberlin this past January, had no budget for its two-day shoot, and the cast and crew is made up mostly of students, alumni, and faculty. “I made the film with some really talented students around me, and we just kind of made the film on impulse,” Emeka said....
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
October 27, 2023
I, like much of the country, was devastated after the Ticketmaster nightmare that was attempting to buy tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. The tour was, and is still, one of the most hyped-up events of the year, and as a life-long Swift fan, I felt like I was missing out on perhaps the most significant moment of her career when I couldn’t get tickets to the initial U.S. leg. I spent hours watching TikToks where she was a dot on my phone screen, straining my ears to hear her vocals over the...
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief
October 27, 2023
The Wiz is a staple for any Black theater lover. The musical premiered in 1974 at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore and moved to Broadway in 1975. The Wiz was also adapted into a movie in 1978 and soon became a fan favorite and cult classic amongst Black families. I remember being four and glued to the TV screen while watching the film with my mom during the holidays, a tradition we still continue. So when I heard the Cleveland Playhouse was one of the stops for The Wiz tour before it moved...
Sex Education Season Four Lost Plot, But Not Feels
October 6, 2023
Bottoms is Mixed Bag: Queer Empowerment versus Harmful Stereotypes
September 29, 2023
November 10, 2023
On Friday, Nov. 3, I walked into Warner Main and sat down on the crowded mats in front of the bleachers. I was there to see Fall Forward, the annual performance put on by the Oberlin College Dance department. Before I walked into the show, one of my friends told me that there was a controversy about a half-hour senior dance piece that was part of the program for the night. It was about whether or not a piece that took up three dance slots in the show should have been allowed or whether it should...
Ava Cantlon, Staff Writer
April 7, 2023
For the first time since 2019, students gathered by the hundreds in Hales Gymnasium for the Dandelion Romp, an event put on by the Oberlin Contra Dance Club consisting of live music, dancing, and socializing with both old friends and new acquaintances. Contra dance is a form of American folk dance in which couples dance in line with others, often to fiddle music. The Dandelion Romp was canceled for the past few years due to COVID-19, and the reestablishment of the Romp created quite...
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
March 31, 2023
Al Evangelista is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, and assistant professor of Dance. His work focuses on social justice, queer and Filipinx identity, and technology. He is currently choreographing a performance for this semester’s Spring Back event, exploring movement in spaces and working with audio about recent legislation restricting freedoms for transgender people. Evangelista recently contributed to the Dance Studies Association’s Chats issue and is on the...
Juju Gaspar, Arts & Culture Editor
October 28, 2022
There are over 17 student-led dance groups at Oberlin, including troupes like VIBE Dance Company, Kinetik Hip Hop Crew, AndWhat?!, Capoeira Angola, and more. That’s not to mention that Fall Forward and Student Showcase: Dance Umbrella are coming up. These groups offer a diverse spectrum of dance styles and many opportunities for those interested in dance to get involved. Yet despite the large number of groups, there are far more students wanting to get involved in dance on campus than already...
May 20, 2022
Bright, colorful artworks were on display in the lobby windows of the Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater this past week, marking the first part of Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista’s multidisciplinary project Somewhere Good. The project is a collaboration between Oberlin’s Dance, Theater, and TIMARA departments as well as a community project between Oberlin dancers, English for Speakers of Other Languages, students of the Conservatory, and residents of Kendal at Oberlin. This Friday and...
May 13, 2022
This past Thursday, the Root Room in Carnegie Building was the site of an open band and a menagerie of spirited folk dancers. After its hiatus due to COVID-19, the Contra Dance Club welcomed the community to its first dance of the year. Contra dance, often referred to as New England folk dance, is easy to pick up; couples switch periodically, the ‘caller’ calls out instructions for each successive set of moves, and by the end, everyone has danced with everyone. Though contra’s form lends itself...
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
November 3, 2023
On Monday night, a friend and I made the two-hour trek to Columbus to see Del Water Gap perform at Newport Music Hall. My partner called us ridiculous for four hours of driving on a weeknight, but I have become a bit of a concert fiend over the last few years, and I assured her it would be worth it. By the end of the show, I was confident that it was, but the concert admittedly had a bit of a rocky start. To open the show, a long, somber instrumental section came through the speakers — so long...
’Sco Booker Spotlight: From Paperwork to Performance
November 3, 2023
Laufey Blends Genres as Part of “Sad Wasian” Trope, Bewitches Audience
October 27, 2023
Despite Skeptical Audience, The Lemon Twigs Interact Well with Crowd
October 6, 2023
Kathleen Kelleher, Senior Staff Writer
September 29, 2023
This past Saturday morning, I queued up outside the Allen Memorial Art Museum, much as I have for the last three years. When I arrived at the front of the line, I noticed what would become my painting, for a semester at least: Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, OC ’94’s “White-Tailed Deer (America’s Most Dangerous Animal).” When I picked it up, my housemate remarked, “You got the digital art piece.” The rather large piece looks somewhat like a QR code. Staring at it in my living room, I parsed...
Kathleen Kelleher, Senior Staff Writer
September 22, 2023
Oberlin welcomed a new mural to town this week as artist Jared Mitchell put the finishing touches on the Oberlin Community Mural Project’s new vintage postcard-inspired wall. The mural sits on the south side of Mill on Main, at the intersection of West Vine and Main Streets. This is the second mural from the Oberlin Community Mural Project, after the “We Are Oberlin” mural on the wall behind the bookstore. The group’s organizer, Tanya Rosen-Jones, OC ’97, said the community wanted more...
Kayla Kim, Managing Editor
September 22, 2023
On September 13, New York investigators seized pieces by Egon Schiele from three out-of-state museums. The pieces were “Russian War Prisoner" from the Art Institute of Chicago, “Portrait of a Man” from the Carnegie Museum of Art, and “Girl With Black Hair” from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin released a statement one day later. “We are confident that Oberlin College legally acquired Egon Schiele’s ‘Girl with Black Hair’ in 1958, and that we lawfully possess it,” a statement...
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
September 8, 2023
In the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s Ellen Johnson Gallery, a series of textiles with fluid black silhouettes line the walls. These quilts honor the life and findings of Henrietta Leavitt, a female astronomer who studied at Oberlin from 1885 to 1888. Through her work as a “computer” in the Harvard College Observatory, Leavitt discovered thousands of variables of stars, and her research was vital to understanding several fundamental rules of the universe. This series is part of the solo exhibition...
BadArtCo Gallery Show Questions Mainstream Values of Art
May 5, 2023
AMAM Invites Local Musicians to Celebrate Shared Art Program Painting
May 5, 2023
Vintage Looks, Cat Motifs Highlighted In Met Gala Theme
May 5, 2023
Holly Yelton, Illustrator
April 22, 2022
Holly Yelton, Illustrator
March 25, 2022
Holly Yelton, Illustrator
March 5, 2022
January 7, 2022
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief
November 10, 2023
Julius Bailey is chair of the department of Philosophy and Religion at Wittenberg University, as well as director of both the African & Diaspora Studies and the Justice,...
Chloe Ko, Arts & Culture Editor
November 3, 2023
Anjanette Hall is an assistant professor of Theater who has performed in various productions in Northeast Ohio. Her most recent role was as adult Addie in the second half...
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
October 6, 2023
Ardon Shorr, OC ’09, graduated with degrees in Music Theory, Neuroscience, and Chemistry. He has since gone on to pursue a Ph.D. in Biology from Carnegie Mellon University...
Ava Miller, News Editor
September 29, 2023
Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine was recently hired as an assistant professor in the Creative Writing department. He is a fiction writer specializing in Arab-American narratives. This...
Delaney Fox, Editor-in-Chief
September 22, 2023
Annie Zaleski recently joined the Oberlin Office of Communications as the Oberlin Alumni Magazine editor last spring. Zaleski’s byline has been featured in publications...
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
September 8, 2023
Amanda Hodes is a lecturer in Creative Writing with a specialty in teaching poetry. Her written work has been published in multiple poetry publications and her multimedia...
On the Record with Richard Powers: Novelist, Advocate, Commencement 2023 Speaker
May 19, 2023