Arts and Entertainment
Speakeasy celebrates talented student artists
November 8, 2012On Nov. 1, Hamilton College hosted its third-ever The SpeakEasy in the Sadove Living Room.
More ..."The Dispute" succeeds in its subtleties
November 8, 2012Early anthropologists liked to observe what they termed ‘survivals’—so-called ‘primitive’ or less advanced cultures—in an attempt to grasp the fundamentals of what it meant to be human. Decades later, scholars could only shake their heads in wonder at their misbegotten analytical methods.
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Joe Pug captivates CAB's coffeehouse
November 8, 2012Joe Pug is one of those performers who has got it. Calling it charisma would get us part of the way there, but Pug’s performance moves far beyond just charm. Over the course of an hour, Pug zipped his way through a set that I will shamelessly tag as Dylan-esque. And that’s not even to cite the great singer-songwriter himself - more to allude to the mythic presence of Dylan—a presence that Pug inhabited on the stage a few Thursdays ago in the Barn.
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IMF follows Death From Above 1979 to Canada
November 8, 2012For most students (including myself), typical Monday nights at Hamilton involve homework, club meetings, maybe some football and relaxing weekend recovery. This past Monday evening had something else in store for five students: sophomore Brendon Kaufman and seniors Lucas Kang, Brendan Doherty, Pete Adelfio and myself. Replacing the books in our backpacks with warm coats and passports, the five of us travelled up to Kingston, Ontario to see the dance punk duo Death From Above 1979 on a trip sponsored by Hamilton’s Independent Music Fund.
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Face Off: Should Celebrities endorse political candidates? - YES
November 1, 2012I understand that this seems like the less logical side of this argument in some ways—celebrities are stupid, right? Don’t they represent the rampant superficiality and misguided value system of our flawed culture? Some might, but that’s an oversimplification that robs credit from the handful of brilliant celebrity intellectuals that really do deserve it.
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Face Off: Should celebrities endorse political candidates -NO
November 1, 2012
Celebrities should not endorse candidates. This is not to say that anyone should prevent them from announcing their support for a political party or candidate in an election—just that, in the ideal media culture, it would not happen.
But, at best, candidate endorsements are empty statements, anyway.
Theophilus and Wynter bring Brooklyn to Annex
October 25, 2012With midterms mostly over and the semester’s inevitably snow-covered final weeks still out of sight, the cloud of buzzing, anticipatory energy that floats over Hamilton most Friday nights felt especially thick this week. While the campus’ most wizardly students congregated across the road for Hogwarts at Hamilton in Benedict, many of their Muggle classmates filed into the wide open Annex for the Campus Activities Board’s flagship musical event of the semester: rapper Theophilus London in the headlining slot with pop princess Wynter Gordon opening up the show.
More ...Coffeehouse starts Matrimony folk up Barn
October 25, 2012Before we get too far, let’s get it out of the way: Mumford and Sons. There—it’s out on the table. Matrimony has been tagged with the comparison time and again on blogs and discussion boards all over the Internet, but the comparison is too easy and ultimately misleading.
More ...Q&A: Jess Klein
October 25, 2012Having just released her eighth studio album Behind A Veil in April, Austin singer-songwriter and Hamilton College alumna Jess Klein ’95 returned to campus last Thursday to play an opening set for Matrimony at CAB’s Acoustic Coffeehouse series in the Barn. A few hours before her performance, Jess and her guitarist Billy Masters sat down with junior Nick Geisler in the WHCL studio to play a few songs and talk about her Hamilton experience and music career live on the air. The following are excerpts from their conversation. Stay tuned for the entire interview to be rebroadcast on WHCL soon!
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