Category: Arts & Entertainment

The search for identity ó individual and collective, personal and national ó unites the two senior Independent Study art exhibitions being shown in the MacKenzie Gallery in Ebert Art Center through today, Friday, May 1. Juliann Lafferty í09 incorporated transparent photographic prints, light boxes and thrift-store picture frames in her artistic study of family, home…

Last Friday and Saturday, Tess Burgler ’09 presented her Senior I.S. production, entitled Original Shakespeare Theatre. The idea was to use original practice methods to make a performance as close as possible to how Shakespeare would have done it, while still being interesting and enjoyable to both Shakespeare fans and non-fans. As a casual fan…

Here’s something fun to try: stick your hand into a bag of jellybeans and blindly shove into your mouth whatever multi-colored spices you grasp. With all likelihood, the resulting flavor will be something that is best described as a licorice-coated insult to your taste buds. Separately, the flavors all taste just fine, but when mixed…

Last Friday night to kick off family weekend, all of the campus a capella groups performed in McGaw Chapel. The four campus groups put on a dazzling performance for Wooster students and their parents. These groups are student-led, giving them vast freedom in what music they choose to focus on and perform. After These Messages,…

Artists, no matter how creative they may be, must derive inspiration from somewhere, and as art is at its most basic form about communication, the transference of ideas from one person to another, these creative mines can generally be found within relationships.

Regarding celebrities, bad publicity usually trumps the good. Entertainment news is plastered with articles regarding the bad parenting of the Spears family, Lindsay Lohan’s new girlfriend and the parenthetical and marginal lives of the “characters” from The Hills. Sometimes, it is hard to take entertainment news seriously.