Spencer Elkind, Staff Writer
May 9, 2025
At first glance, the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems like an odd choice. With just two films left until the final stretch of this wildly inconsistent saga, why make one an ensemble piece for a bunch of second-rate supporting characters? This is what many people thought when this film was first announced. With Thunderbolts*, directed by Jake Schreier and written by Lee Sung Jin and Joanne Carlo, another team of misfits joins the exclusive MCU club. This film, while not the best...
Sadie Howard, Arts & Culture Editor
May 2, 2025
I have never by any means considered myself a theater kid. However, an exception to that rule is my love of Legally Blonde: The Musical. I have watched the bootleg more times than I can count, and I think I can sing along to the entire soundtrack. So when I learned that the Oberlin Musical Theater Association would be putting on a production of the musical, I could hardly wait. OMTA’s Legally Blonde was full of life, charm, and pink, making it a must-see, even for a non-theater fan. As the pit...
May 2, 2025
A shadow resembling a daddy long-legs makes Jerusha Abbott, played by College fourth-year Chloe Sinder, laugh on an awful day and changes the trajectory of her future. The shadow belongs to Jervis Pendleton, played by College fourth-year Ansel Mills, who unexpectedly pays for Jerusha’s college education. Based on Jean Webster’s 1912 novel, Daddy Long Legs was brought to life this past weekend in the Kander Theater under the direction of College third-year Kate Heffernan. The story follows...
Spencer Elkind, Staff Writer
April 25, 2025
For the longest time, Sinners, directed by Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler, remained a complete mystery. Until the first trailer came out, the movie’s premise and even its title were unclear. Like the movie itself, the lead-up to Sinners was shrouded in secrets, but it was all worth it. After seeing this movie, I can confidently say Sinners is destined to become one of the films that will define 2025. Not only is it a near-perfect movie, but it’s a rare original feature that must be seen on the...
Wright’s Rocky Horror Serves Camp, Chaos, Cult Classic Glam
April 18, 2025
Oberlin Film Society Brings Classic Cinema to Local Community
April 11, 2025
Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer
April 4, 2025
On Wednesday, April 2, Noh Theater: Artists-in-Residence Tokyoite performers Uzawa Hikaru and Uzawa Hisa hosted a music workshop and demonstration. Hazy light streamed in through tall windows of David H. Stull Recital Hall and illuminated Hikaru as she danced. On her right sat Hisa, singing in Japanese, captivating her audience with resonant vocals. They immersed listeners in an excerpt from Kiyotsune, a Noh warrior play. Noh is one of Japan’s premier performing arts and has existed for over 650...
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
March 7, 2025
Each semester, student-run dance troupes such as VIBE Dance Company, CHOREO Dance Crew, and Kinetic come together to present their work at the Student Dance Showcase. While SDS usually takes place late in the semester, this year it was programmed for March 14, giving the dance groups less time than typical to prepare their work. College third-year Gabby Grau has been co-directing SDS since fall 2023. “A lot of the dance groups don’t have their own show so this is where they perform their...
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...
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...
Sadie Howard, Arts & Culture Editor
May 9, 2025
Last Friday, emerging pop duo Magdalena Bay played at House of Blues Cleveland as part of their “Imaginal Mystery Tour.” Their 2024 release, Imaginal Disk, was met with critical acclaim, making their tour one of my most anticipated concerts of the year. A fundamental part of the show was its off-kilter visuals. In addition to the ever-changing lights and almost overwhelming use of a fog machine, there were two screens on either side of the stage, one just a rectangle and one shaped like a mirror...
TikTok Sensation Will Paquin Brings Viral Guitar Riffs to Life
May 9, 2025
Sadurn Brings Quiet Intimacy to ’Sco
April 18, 2025
Eleri Ward Stuns Oberlin with Sondheim Covers, Original Music
April 18, 2025
April 25, 2025
Even before the Trump administration started their attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, the Smithsonian Institution had been silently cleansing its halls of works reflecting diverse artists. This practice is not new; rather, it exemplifies a long, often unspoken history. American museums have always been political spaces that maintain systems of oppression. In an ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a queer Cuban-born American artist, would have found his...
Sadie Howard, Arts & Culture Editor
March 14, 2025
Since 2012, the Allen Memorial Art Museum has implemented a faculty-curated exhibition residency where professors spanning a wide range of disciplines work with AMAM staff and Oberlin College students to create an exhibition related to a class. A panel with Mildred C. Jay Professor of Medieval Art History Erik Inglis, OC ’89; Professor of Classics and Chair of Archaeological Studies Drew Wilburn; Associate Professor of Biology Taylor Allen; Associate Professor of History Ellen Wurtzel; and Eric...
Junwoo Oh, Staff Writer
March 14, 2025
Artist and graphic journalist Victoria Lomasko presented her latest book, The Last Soviet Artist, a sociological and creative panorama of post-USSR Eastern Europe. The event, titled after her book, happened Wednesday in King 106. Assistant Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Vladimir Ivantsov and the Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies helped curate the event. It was Oberlin’s second time hosting Lomasko, as she had visited the previous year to...
Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer
February 14, 2025
On Feb. 12, Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sophie Isaak presented an art lecture in the Clarence Ward ’37 Art Building. She described her trajectory from a university student to her profession as a printmaker and professor today. Isaak entered the University of Vermont to complete an English degree. However, after her mentor inspired her love for printmaking, Isaak added a Studio Art major to her degree. At UVM, Isaak learned that artwork is about starting...
Cleveland Clinic Art Therapy Provides Creative Escape for Patients
February 7, 2025
Art, Activism are Inseparable in “The Body, The Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity” Symposium
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November 22, 2024
From an ancient version of funnel cake to a simple pot of porridge, Roman cuisine is familiar, extravagant, and downright wacky. But it’s more than just a weird recipe or two; it keys scholars into specific cultural and social changes. This is what Andrew Donnelly, an assistant professor of History at East Texas A&M University, has devoted his career to. He visited Oberlin on Monday to give an engaging and fascinating talk titled “Steaming Pots of Porridge: Cooking, Cato, and Conservatism...
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Junwoo Oh, Staff Writer
May 9, 2025
College fourth-year Oona Shain is a Comparative American Studies major with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and an Education Studies integrative concentration....
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
May 2, 2025
College second-year Ayesha Ghosh has already made a strong impact on the spiritual arts at Oberlin. In her first year, Ghosh started the Healers Collective, through which...
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
April 25, 2025
Margaret Killjoy is an author, musician, activist, and anarchist. She is best known for her speculative fiction, particularly the Danielle Cain series, which began 25 years...
Chloe Ko, Arts & Culture Editor
April 11, 2025
Skye Jalal, a College fourth-year and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow majoring in Art History and Studio Art, has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which will...
Sadie Howard, Arts & Culture Editor
April 4, 2025
Sophie Kemp, OC ’18, is a writer who teaches at Columbia University and has been featured in publications such as Vogue, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Pitchfork,...
Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor
March 14, 2025
Since 1996, Radio Diaries has handed a tape recorder to nearly every age group and profession and asked them to share their extraordinary stories. The stories themselves are...
March 7, 2025