“It’s the last day of the world. Seriously, it’s fucking cold. Even the Blair Witch is frozen,” Kate McKinnon said as she “got real” with the whopping 750-plus Hamiltonians fighting off seasonal affective disorder at the Campus Activities Board’s (CAB) annual FebFest comedy show. More ...
Last Tuesday, the half-filled Fillius Events Barn played host to one of the finest jazz concerts I have heard at Hamilton. Led by Professor of Music and bass extraordinaire, Michael “Doc” Woods, the New Voices in Jazz quintet featured Morgan McMillon on saxophone, Jeff Jewsome on trumpet, Tom Witkowski on piano and Rick Compton on drums. More ...
On Friday, Feb. 24, some of the most preeminent contemporary bluegrass musicians will play in Wellin Hall, led by banjo star Noam Pikelny. He is joined by equally prominent musicians Luke Bulla (violin), Barry Bales (bass), Bryan Sutton (guitar) and Jesse Cobb (mandolin). The group has collectively won almost 20 Grammy awards, and has played with the likes of the Punch Brothers (Pikelny’s band), Ricky Scaggs Kentucky Thunder Band, Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck and even Taylor Swift. These highly versatile musicians will be playing the music they love best—bluegrass—in a concert of both new and traditional music. More ...
If you did not make it to Wellin Hall this weekend to see the Hamilton College Choir put on Candide, you missed out. Raw student talent combined with well-cast roles made Choir’s Saturday night performance impressive, despite its lengthiness. More ...
Every art concentrator at Hamilton, and probably every artist of any kind, is at some point confronted with the task of depicting the human body, whether it be in Figure Drawing 101 or caricature drawing on the streets of New York. Some, however, put the body at the center of their work. Two Hamilton art majors, Kate Bickmore ’15 and Sean Henry-Smith ’15, use the human body as a means of exploring gender and sexuality in their artwork. More ...
In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice, curated by Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight, explores the way 13 contemporary photographers document and examine social issues. The show is a large one—with over 2,000 photos in one series alone—and takes up nearly three-quarters of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Musuem’s exhibit space. The show is as diverse as it is large, testing the balance of what the introduction calls “aesthetic and political goals to frame important social issues in a contemporary manner.” More ...
There’s a scene in Man of Steel in which Superman is confronted by a military general for destroying a spy satellite. After Superman flies away, the general notices one of his soldiers, a woman, blushing. “What are you smiling about, captain?” the general asks. “Nothing sir,” she replies, "I just think he’s kinda hot.” It is a moment that is completely cringe-inducing, misogynistic and adds nothing to an incredibly mediocre movie. That Awkward Moment is what would happen if that moment was stretched to 94 minutes and starred Zac Efron. It is a movie that tries so hard to be “hip” that there might as well be a hashtag in the title. On the plus side, it is an early frontrunner for the “bro-iest” movie of the year, so it’s got that going for it. More ...
The year was 1937, and Pranlal Patel was just recently approached with an offer to capture on film moments of labor and independence in the lives of a workforce that had been considered to be invisible and under-cared for by many: women. Up until this documentation by the commission of Jyoti Sangh, a social organization whose agenda in furthering the quality of life for Gujarati women colored the series of photographs, women in India’s economy were subjects that had hardly been given a face or presence. Through Patel’s work, they are suddenly explored in ways that offer audiences insight not only into the basic economic pressures women were under, but also interior social conditions of the work environment, and in a few rare cases, the lives and personalities of the women themselves. More ...
Dance rightfully transcends the human need for lingual communication and translates to an audience its stories, abstractions, and the most sublime characteristics of humanity through the inspired minds of artists. Doug Varone, of the Doug Varone Dance Company, is one such artist who has in his 27 year history choreographed a collection of pieces that fall throughout the creative spectrum from heavy, dark, conflict-laden movements to freer, more optimistic pieces. More ...
The eclectic and overcrowded holiday season has bulldozed the box office prospects of many a hopeful blockbuster. However, some films deserve to be rescued from the carnage. More ...