by Katie Thorp The artwork in Lilly Library’s Ronald Gallery provided fitting atmosphere on Monday evening, as about 30 people sat and listened to writer Ander Monson read from his book “Neck Deep and other Predicaments,” for which he has won the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award for Non-Fiction. The statues and...
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by Uldis Elksnitis A commonly quiet Saturday afternoon on the Earlham campus was suddenly shaken by utterly passionate screams of James Brown and the flowing and melodic rhythms of soul music. Why? Student Activities Board and the Office of Residence Life had planned something grand for all the Earlhamites. The music and good vibrations...
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by Christopher Matlack The crowd at Saturday night’s SAB-presented Night of Comedy was loud and rowdy to the point of repeatedly distracting the performers. Some attendees seemed to feel the opening comedian’s casually cocky attitude invited such behavior. Dan Boulger, 22, began the show by chatting one-on-one with several audience members before launching into...
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by Josh Friedberg Welcome to a periodically appearing column that focuses on the various issues music historians and critics have confronted, like canon, tradition, innovation, business and marginalization. Though this extends my previous Word column, Music Geek’s Encyclopedia, it does not simply recommend albums, instead assessing perspectives given in readings on music. I invite...
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by Nat Miller Don’t you just hate it when you speak too soon? Two weeks ago I declared Okkervil River’s “The Stand Ins” to be the “album of the year.” I should have had waited on that statement, at least until I listened to TV On The Radio’s brand new “Dear Science,.” The disc...
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by Catherine Jewett I’m no “Nerdy Natalie,” but every once in a while, I do enjoy the heady rush of self-satisfaction that comes after completing a particularly good book. I know what you’re thinking: “Catherine, with your demanding career as a senior art major, how in the world do you find the time to...
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