Surprisingly, Cleveland Has a Wine Scene — And it’s Thriving
Katie Lucey, News Editor
December 13, 2019
Cleveland is not a wine town. Not historically, anyway. Recently, though, the city has given rise to a thriving, albeit small, wine scene — for those who know how to find it. Although beer still reigns king in Northeast Ohio, the wine industry has a larger presence than one might think. Ohio, despi...
Conservatory Professor Celebrates Grammy Nomination
Aly Fogel, Arts & Culture Editor
December 13, 2019
“The Mandalorian” Proves Promising for Disney+
Kabir Karamchandani, Staff Writer
December 13, 2019
The Mandalorian, a Star Wars space-western, recently premiered on the new streaming platform Disney+. So far, five out of eight episodes have been released, and the series is easily the biggest attraction on the still-new site. An engaging show, The Mandalorian has lived up to the hype so far and is a g...
Slow Train Storytellers: Bringing Oral Storytelling to Oberlin
December 6, 2019
Slow Train Storytellers will bring members of the Oberlin community together to share their stories over coffee this Friday from 7–9 p.m. Limited to five unscripted minutes, community members are encouraged to share their personal stories in a safe and supportive environment. As a new feature of...
CATSS Cares for Local Felines, Supports Health, Awareness
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
December 6, 2019
College towns seem to be dumping grounds for folks looking to get rid of their pets — whether because of turnover in students and staff, or because such communities often come together to care for animals. Oberlin has its own share of feline friends, sometimes seen on campus in colonies or dashing...
Book Nook Reviews: Lasser and Kornblith’s “Elusive Utopia”
Nalin Beckman, Ken Grossi, and Nathan Carpenter
December 6, 2019
In the third grade I, like every other elementary-school student in Oberlin’s public schools, received a copy of an Oberlin history textbook. The book portrayed Oberlin as a utopian community that had transcended issues of gender and race from its inception. Yet my lived experiences and the stories...
![The Cat in the Cream was packed on Monday night, as middle schoolers, family members and Oberlin students gathered to hear Langston Middle School students read poetry from anthologies of their work. The subject matter ran the gamut, touching on times they felt powerful, people that are important to them, advice they don’t like to hear, and their relationships with their hometowns, among other sources of inspiration.
This work came out of seven-day residencies in the middle school Language Arts classes, taught by college students through the Writers in the Schools Program. This program, directed by Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Lynn Powell, is the focus of her Teaching Imaginative Writing course. College students compiled the culminating anthologies of middle school poetry, will be on shelves at the school and the Oberlin Public Library.
“I preach to my Oberlin students that to teach well you must prepare yourself as well as you can, and then go have an authentic conversation with your students,” Powell wrote in an email to the Review. “Staying curious and learning together is what keeps both teaching and poetry alive.”
College third-year Elmo Tumbokon participated in the class last year, and taught again as a practicum this fall.
“If you’ve heard the poems that eighth-graders read, it’s literally the most profound thing in the world,” said Tumbokon. “And [to help] kids have access to poetry over and over again, and all I have to do is volunteer my time. … It means the world to me.”
Another student teacher, College fourth-year Jack McMillin, participated in WITS when he was a student at Langston Middle School. In his final year at the College, he’s come full circle with the program.
“As a middle school student, the program was such a joy because it allowed me to think imaginatively in a school setting,” McMillin wrote in an email to the Review. “For me, it’s early chances like the poetry [residency] where I could play around and experiment with my voice that made writing a liberating world, and the more this expanded during my time at Oberlin, the more I wanted to pursue creative writing.”](https://oberlinreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Poetry_MallikaPandey_WEB-475x317.jpg)
Cyril Amanfo, “Equilibrium” Student Playwright, Director
Kate Fishman, Arts & Culture Editor
December 6, 2019
College second-year Cyril Amanfo is a Neuroscience and Theater double major from Lowell, MA. Last year, Amanfo was the assistant stage manager for Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Caroline Jackson Smith’s staging of BJ Tindal’s, OC ’16 play, What We Look Like, an experience that inspired ...
“Urinetown” Takes a Comedic Look at Dark Societal Issues
Kabir Karamchandani, Staff Writer
December 6, 2019
Described in the director’s note as “an eerily relevant takedown of Capitalism’s worst case scenario,” the Oberlin Theater Department’s production of Urinetown, a darkly satirical 2001 musical, is still uncomfortably applicable to our political and social climate today. The production deals ...
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December 6, 2019
ACROSS 1. Calls into question 6. Canonical Hebrew scripture 10. French infantry man in WWI, literally “hairy one” 11. Variety of Japanese soup 13. Outdo in tennis 16. Ready and willing to play 18. Harry Potter on West End 19. Academic 21. One who pursues 23. When one is on a ship 24. First word of the Co...
Athina Apazidis, Staff Cartoonist