by Melissa Breor in Arts
The last theatre production of the semester opened last night, Wednesday, Dec. 3, and is worth checking out over the next few days. "Big Love" is written by Charles L. Mee, a contemporary American playwright who has transformed Aeschylus's tragedy "The Suppliant Woman" into a musical and tragic mix.
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by Megan Burbank in Arts
Back in July, Douglas Haddow of Adbusters Magazine condemned the hipsters of America as the death of culture as we know it. Citing the misuse of keffiyehs, Polaroid cameras, Parliament cigarettes and American Apparel, coupled with a gnawing desire for attention, Haddow condemned hipsters and hipsterdom as "the end of Western civilization - a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning… While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the 'hipster' - a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.
by Maggie Mertens in Arts
Last January, an e-mail arrived in Smith senior Elizabeth Willis's Gmail inbox from someone named Matt Apfel. He told her he loved her track "One," which she had uploaded to his Web site WeMix.com and that he and "Chris" thought it had a lot of potential. Willis was flattered and wrote back, grateful but curious: "I asked 'who is Chris?'" Apfel responded that he and the site's other founder, rapper Ludacris, were interested in working with her and would be putting the link to her song on the front page of WeMix.
by Caroline Framke in Arts
If you frequent the Northampton concert scene, you undoubtedly recognize Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers - also referred to as SK6ERS - as a staple. The band was founded in the Pioneer Valley in 2000 when Stephen Kellogg, then a solo artist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, met the Sixers, a band comprised of drummer Brian "Boots" Factor, guitarist Chris Soucy - an alum of Smith graduate school who has just recently left the band - and bassist/keyboardist Kit "The Goose" Karlson.
by Sarah Lindblom in Arts
Tonight, an accurate prediction can be made that the average Smith student will probably be sitting at her desk frantically typing on her computer, surrounded by open books, highlighted course packets, empty energy drinks and half-eaten popcorn, willing the hours to pass until Christmas break is officially upon us.
by Kaitlyn Willcoxon in Arts
Watching "She Loves Me" by the Smith College Leading Ladies reminded me of how much I love the movie "You've got Mail." "She Loves Me" is set in a perfume shop, and proves that arguing is the best form of foreplay. Two employees Georg Nowack and Amalia Balash, who do not get along in the shop, are actually pen pals.
