Nikki Keating and Travis O'Daniel

December 6, 2024

Two brave souls, Managing Editor Travis O’Daniel and Editor-in-Chief Nikki Keating, ventured into the enchanting, twisted world of Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu. Armed with a shared love for musicals, green-and-pink ensembles, and the promise of Lupitas Mexican Restaurant afterward, they set out to experience the magic and the music. Together, they’ve crafted this review, filled with theater kid expertise, Ariana Grande admiration, and the firm belief that Jonathan Bailey could play any role...

Grace Connell, Staff Writer

December 6, 2024

The Theater department will be staging Dracula this weekend, directed by Costume Designer and Associate Professor of Theater Chris Flaharty, as a part of the Theater Mainstage Series.  This production dramatizes Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel, which tells the story of Lucy, who has developed a mysterious illness of the blood. As the play progresses, Lucy’s condition worsens, causing her to lose blood every night. Desperate to save her, Dr. Seward and Lucy’s fiancé call on Van Helsing,...

Sadie Howard, Arts & Culture Editor

December 6, 2024

Last Wednesday night, the Allen Memorial Art Museum hosted a screening of Red Reminds Me… at the Apollo Theatre for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2024. The screening was done as a part of the AMAM’s exhibit, “The Body, The Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity,” which already boasts a wide variety of multimedia installations and hosted a dance performance back in November. So, it is fitting that a film screening is being shown during part of its time at the AMAM. Red Reminds Me… is a series...

Noah Cawich

December 6, 2024

Moana 2 is a significant box office hit, for better or worse. The sequel has now broken records such as the highest global opening weekend for an animated movie. With $439.7 million made against a $150 million budget, the film is projected to make more money than its predecessor. However, the production did not come without problems. Because it was initially developed as a TV series for the streaming service Disney+, Moana 2 was only transformed into a movie in February. This left the crunch time...

Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor

November 15, 2024

The Oberlin Pole Dance Club, an up-and-coming student organization, will present their first performance, Soirée Noire. The show will feature several acts at The ’Sco tonight at 10 p.m.  This is the first time Oberlin Pole will put on an event showcasing only its own acts. In opposed past shows, they have collaborated with OBurlesque or OCircus. “I’m excited [for this show] because it’s groundbreaking for [our] student organization ,” College third-year and club founder Natalie Frank...

Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer

September 13, 2024

From four new auditioners last semester to 24 this semester, CHOREO Dance Crew has shot up in popularity. The questions arise: How did CHOREO gain popularity so quickly? What lies ahead for this up-and-coming group? Interviews with CHOREO’s three directors — College third-year Annalise Curl, College fourth-year Evelyn Williamson, and College fourth-year Julia Stuart — lend insight into CHOREO’s history, present, and future.  CHOREO is a multi-genre dance group that draws considerable inspiration...

Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor

March 15, 2024

A plethora of exuberant “Yes Aunty!”s reverberated through the crowd at drag queen Dr. LaWhore Vagistan’s show “Lessons in Drag” at the Cat in the Cream Monday. The show included some lecture, some lip syncing, and some audience participation. The show sought to inform people on South Asian and South Asian-American issues through drag, and it successfully did just that. Dr. LaWhore Vagistan is the drag queen persona of Dr. Kareem Khubchandani, associate professor of Theatre, Dance, and...

Loie Schiller

November 10, 2023

On Friday, Nov. 3, I walked into Warner Main and sat down on the crowded mats in front of the bleachers. I was there to see Fall Forward, the annual performance put on by the Oberlin College Dance department. Before I walked into the show, one of my friends told me that there was a controversy about a half-hour senior dance piece that was part of the program for the night. It was about whether or not a piece that took up three dance slots in the show should have been allowed or whether it should...

Ava Cantlon, Staff Writer

April 7, 2023

For the first time since 2019, students gathered by the hundreds in Hales Gymnasium for the Dandelion Romp, an event put on by the Oberlin Contra Dance Club consisting of live music, dancing, and socializing with both old friends and new acquaintances. Contra dance is a form of American folk dance in which couples dance in line with others, often to fiddle music. The Dandelion Romp was canceled for the past few years due to COVID-19, and the reestablishment of the Romp created quite...

Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor

March 31, 2023

Al Evangelista is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, and assistant professor of Dance. His work focuses on social justice, queer and Filipinx identity, and technology. He is currently choreographing a performance for this semester’s Spring Back event, exploring movement in spaces and working with audio about recent legislation restricting freedoms for transgender people. Evangelista recently contributed to the Dance Studies Association’s Chats issue and is on the...

Sadie Howard, Arts & Culture Editor

November 22, 2024

Last night, indie-pop darling Haley Heynderickx made her long-awaited return to Oberlin with her performance at The ’Sco. Unfortunately, I was unable to make it to her ’Sco performance, but I was lucky enough to see her two weeks prior at The Roxy at Mahall’s in Lakewood. Anyone familiar with Heynderickx’s songs knows her for her dainty, lilting voice, which is accentuated by simplistic backing music. Her cult classic debut album, I Need to Start a Garden, and her follow-up album, Seed of...

Sadie Howard and Sydney Collinger

November 22, 2024

“The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity” is a landmark exhibit at the Allen Memorial Art Museum celebrating works by artists that draw on Christian narratives and imagery in response to the AIDS epidemic. To uplift and celebrate this exhibition, Sam Adams, Ellen Johnson ’33 curator of modern and contemporary art, organized a weekend-long symposium last Friday and Saturday, in which AMAM invited a host of artists and activists to perform and give speeches documenting their life and their...

Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief

November 22, 2024

DeeDee Ngozi Chamblee is the founder and executive director of La Gender Inc., a non-profit organization led by Black transgender women that uplifts and empowers transgender women of color in the metro Atlanta area. Recently, she was the keynote speaker for the exhibition “The Body, the Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity,” where she spoke about the traditional narratives around HIV/AIDS and her own personal journey. This article has been edited for length and clarity. Tell me where you grew up...

Grace Connell, Staff Writer

November 15, 2024

Firelands Association for the Visual Arts is hosting its 45th annual Members’ Show through Dec. 8 to exhibit local art in the Oberlin community.  For the last 45 years, FAVA has showcased the work of members of all ages and experience levels once a year, inviting the Oberlin community to view the creations of FAVA instructors, local artists, and residents alike. In a community as famous for its vibrant arts scene as Oberlin, the FAVA Members’ Show plays an invaluable role in bringing people...

Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer

November 15, 2024

The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit “Picturing the Border” showcases photographs of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands from the 1970s to the present. The photographed subjects range from black-and-white portraits to brightly colored political demonstrations. These humanizing images counter often derogatory immigrant narratives that circulate in U.S. mass media. The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit asks the question: What truly defines citizenship, family, nationality, and borders?  “Picturing the...

Sy Noel

December 6, 2024

Nabokov, when too young I read your Signs and Symbols the world folded and hummed and etched out one great unending shriek, Fluoxetine Nabokov, who now half-waking I imagine walking me hulking and real, my Virgil, through the pulpy center of the Earth, strewn about in such a way that would wet our feet if it were water: To avoid nihilism, O Vladimir, I tell you of the smallest of angels. A baby bird with a mouth for a head thrusting hunger up to Heaven. Man at His Bath by Caillebotte who...

Ruby Spencer, Poetry Editor

November 15, 2024

The wick hisses  in a flat pool of wax  and the drape is drawn  above. The summit  blues buckle  under this great taking.  All is pitch-dark as soil  save heroes and horses,  dotted, glowing.  At the ridge’s  foot, men in jars  of electric lights  wind down over  TV dinners  with dry canoes in their yard.  May wire cutters give them  no choice but to invent  astronavigation.   Ruby Spencer is a third-year Creative Writing major from Charlottesville, VA....

Holly Yelton, Illustrator

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Junwoo Oh, Staff Writer

December 6, 2024

Artist Tiffany Calvert, OC ’98, blends traditional and modern techniques to create stunning pieces in her own distinct style. Utilizing a diverse arsenal of methods, including...

Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor

November 8, 2024

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber presented a talk Oct. 23 at the 2024 Zombie Apocalypse Medicine meeting in Eureka Springs, AR. The title of his...

Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer

November 1, 2024

College fourth-year Arrie Solomon and College third-year Namu Makatiani are co-chairs of Oberlin Minority Association of Premedical Students, Oberlin’s new club for...

Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor

October 11, 2024

Andria Derstine has spent 18 years at the Allen Memorial Art Museum as both a curator and the John G.W. Cowles director. During this time, she has imparted a lasting influence...

Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer

October 4, 2024

Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand specializes in researching sexuality in the ancient world, archaic Greek poetry, Sophocles, Euripides, Lucan, and the...

Chloe Ko, Arts & Culture Editor

September 27, 2024

Executive Director Zachary Thomas co-founded Writers in Residence in 2017, an organization dedicated to empowering youths in juvenile justice systems by teaching creative...