The lights were dimmed in the Esch-Hurvis room of the Warch Campus Center on Wednesday, April 16 as the audience awaited the spoken word performance of critically acclaimed poet, Buddy Wakefield. Freshman Malcolm Lunn-Craft spearheaded the operation to bring Wakefield to campus with the help of SOUP and Professor Keith Pitts, Set Design and Staging…
Iggy Azalea’s sophmore album complete success
Azalea’s sophomore studio release is an impressive demonstration of her rap and compositional abilities. The album is composed of mostly solid standalone tracks. Azalea delivers lyrically and pairs most of her raps with impressive backing melodies. Further, her use of guest artists is on point throughout the album, and the collaborations often foreshadow new chart…
“The Weird Sisters” provides a delightful, Shakespeare inspired read
While the title of Eleanor Brown’s “The Weird Sisters” instantly evokes pictures of the three haggard crones from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” Brown’s three sisters, three women in their 30s from a tiny Midwestern college town, are decidedly less imposing, and Brown’s story is definitely more of a contemporary fiction than a Shakespearean fantasy. The sisters do,…
Artist series yeilds beautiful, haunting music
In Christian mythology, the seraphim were divine warrior angels, which typically manifested in the form of great wheels of fire with six wings hiding their true form, which was too terrible for the eyes of humans to behold. The word “spectral” means that something is like a ghost, and there is a DC comics character…
Artist Spotlight: Will Melnick
The sidewalks of College Avenue, a mountain pass, a trail through a park between dense forestry. People established these paths to get from place to place. One may see them as merely means to an end, but greater depth exists behind paths. Senior photography student Will Melnick is fascinated by the beauty and profundity of…
Brian Payton reveals WWII romance, secrets
“The Wind is not a River,” a World War II novel by Brian Payton, is centered on a journalist and his wife. John Easley, previously a writer for national geographic, discovers the war has moved onto American soil in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, while he is there studying the wildlife and land. Soon after, the…
LSO Concert exhibits endurance and variety
The Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Octavio Más-Arocas, performed their first concert of the term in the chapel on April 12, 2014. The theme was “Fantastique!” and the evening of music truly justified this title. Small brass ensembles performed short pieces composed by Lawrence students to commence each half of the…
Author Talk – Bruce Machart and Matthew Batt
Author Talk – Bruce Machart and Matthew Batt As part of the 7th annual Fox Cities Book Festival from Monday, April 7 to Sunday, April 13, authors Bruce Machart and Matthew Batt, old friends and classmates of Lawrence Associate Professor of English David McGlynn, gathered in the Pusey room of the Warch Campus Center to…
“The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller
I’ve never enjoyed reading myths, perhaps because they’re just that — myth — and meant for people to pass on through oral tradition rather than the written word. The bare-bone prose, often without descriptive detail, character depth, or dialogue, always leaves me somewhat bored and unsatisfied, even as I recognize that these are some of…
Highlights from this years Latin American Film Festival
Lawrence University’s annual Latin American Film Festival was held last week, from the 9th-12th of April, with selections from all over Mexico, Central America, and South America. Here are some films that were highlights of the festival, provoking, if not universal praise, conversation and debate. After Lucia: The first and without question most controversial film…
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