Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
December 7, 2018
Lauren Elwood is a College sophomore from Bangor, Maine, who’s making her Oberlin mainstage debut as choreographer of —and a dancer in — the acclaimed musical Cabaret. Elwood, a Dance and Theater double major, also performed in Oberlin Musical Theater Association’s Heathers last year as a member of the ensemble. Cabaret is based off a book by Joe Master. The music for the show was written by John Kander, OC ’51, with lyrics by Fred Ebb. Cabaret centers on the relationship between Cliff...
Katherine MacPhail, Production Editor
November 30, 2018
Copenhagen, a play by Michael Frayn that explores a mystery of modern history, debuted yesterday in South Studios, and will run through Saturday, Dec. 1. In the play, the spirits of Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, and Niels’ wife Margrethe discuss why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen to meet Bohr during the height of WWII. Heisenberg, the lead physicist for the Nazi nuclear project, risked his life to visit his friend and mentor Bohrs, a Jewish physicist with ties to the Allied powers. In the afterlife,...
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
November 30, 2018
This weekend will mark the opening of A Man In the House, an Oberlin Student Theater Association production. Written by Elinore Siminovitch, the play takes place in 1937 Montreal and chronicles the lives of Lily, a progressive trade unionist, her daughter Jenny, who rejects her mother’s aspirations for her to attend medical school, and Lily’s mother, who cares deeply about her family but resists progress. A boarder comes to live with them as the first man in their house and the strikes up a romance...
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
December 7, 2018
Rarely have I smiled so hard as I did at the Cat in the Cream this past week at not one but two fantastic performances by students from local Oberlin schools. Kids from Prospect Elementary School and Langston Middle School wowed packed houses on Monday and Wednesday — Monday night’s offering was a poetry reading by the middle school students, and Wednesday’s was a dance performance by students from both schools as a culmination of the afterschool program Girls and Boys in Motion. Both...
Senior Dance Students Impress with Creative Performances
November 16, 2018
Acrobatic Conundrum Soars OCircus! to New Heights
November 9, 2018
Leo Lasdun, Production Editor
December 7, 2018
Solarity, Oberlin’s take on college rave culture, is returning this semester with an exciting lineup of performers. Tomorrow evening Lizzo, a hip-hop artist who became hugely popular with hit singles such as “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell,” will headline the event. Numerous student DJs will open her performance, including 2NDWIFE x hearteyes and CLENDO. And What!?, a student hip-hop dance group, will also be included in the student performances. DJ and British electronic music producer...
Snail Mail’s Midweek Show Met with Applause
December 7, 2018
Indie Group Preacher & Daisy Releases “Over Lake Erie”
November 30, 2018
Cover Band Showcase Sells Out During Parents’ Weekend
November 16, 2018
Gabriella Spielberg
September 21, 2018
A love of barn owls shared with a well-known humorist led College sophomore Ella Causer to develop and teach the ExCo “How to Be David Sedaris Himself.” “He’s one of the authors that can make me laugh out loud,” said Causer. She became exposed to Sedaris’ work relatively recently and has developed a strong appreciation for it. Causer once sent Sedaris fan mail, and he responded by complimenting the collage she’d sent along with her letter, as well as providing her with a list of...
Emily Barton and Thomas Israel Hopkins, Oberlin’s Newest Creative Writing Faculty
September 21, 2018
Students Bare Innermost Thoughts During Diary Reading Open Mic Night
September 21, 2018
Oslam Open Mic Highlights Talent of New Poets
September 14, 2018
Ananya Gupta, Managing Editor
December 8, 2018
Fusions Restaurant Owners Emphasize Diversity, Inclusivity, Equity in Culinary Offerings
September 7, 2018
Corner Joint Promises Good Cooking, Less Value
May 11, 2018
POC Student Groups Host Culture-Rich Banquets
April 27, 2018
Claire Wang, Staff Cartoonist
December 7, 2018
Claire Wang, Staff Cartoonist
November 30, 2018
Claire Wang, Staff Cartoonist
November 16, 2018
Kate Fishman, Arts and Culture Editor
November 16, 2018
Blas Falconer is a queer Latinx poet and editor who came to Oberlin to read from his new book, Forgive the Body This Failure, on Thursday, Nov. 15. Falconer teaches in the...
Gabriel Schneier
November 9, 2018
Annika Hansteen-Izora, OC ’17, returned to Oberlin this past weekend to perform poetry at the Cat in the Cream as the opening act for Porsha Olayiwola. While a first-year...
Carson Dowhan, Staff Writer
November 2, 2018
Oberlin alumni Bruce Lampcov, OC ’77, and Jumee Park, OC ’99, executives at Downtown Music Publishing, gave a talk on their experiences in breaking into the music industry...
October 12, 2018
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman read her original poetry during the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s Tuesday Tea series this week. Some of her poems were...