Category: Arts & Entertainment

  • Celebrating Ohio Light Opera’s bombastic 40 years

    Claire Wineman Staff Writer While no one has ever definitively decided whether the chicken or the egg came first, Laura Neill, the executive director of the Ohio Light Opera (OLO), knows one thing for sure: light opera, or operetta, was the predecessor to the modern American musical. “Light opera was a genre created in response…

  • Future of Deafheaven

    From the shimmering pink cover of their signature record “Sunbather” to vocalist/pianist George Clarke’s purple prose exposing “a multiverse of fuchsia and violet [that] surrenders to blackness,” the tension between darkness and light has defined Deafheaven. While genre purists dismiss the black-metal adjacent quintet for their occasional use of major keys and alleged tendency toward…

  • Lakin gives a powerful final WAC small concert of the year

    Eleanor Linafelt A&E Editor The Wooster Activities Crew (WAC) hosted their last small concert of the year on Wednesday, April 25 with an intimate and powerful performance by the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Lakin. “I thought Lakin would be a good fit and appeal to the wider student body because we had not yet brought a…

  • Senior studio art majors display I.S. projects in CWAM exhibit

    Laura Haley Chief Copy Editor On April 27, the College’s senior studio art majors showcased their Independent Study projects (I.S.) in a group exhibition put on by The College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM). The gallery was first viewed during the campus-wide Senior Research Symposium where majors discussed their year-long work on display. The pieces…

  • Poetry as Peace

    Last Friday, April 27, Bodies of Diversity (B.O.D.) and Word of Mouth collaborated to host an open mic night in the Babcock formal lounge. The event began with an appeal and an assurance: the former implored poets to issue content warnings for pieces that had potentially triggering material, and the latter promised that no offense…

  • Spring Dance Concert includes guest artist, I.S. project

    Meg Itoh Editor in Chief The College of Wooster’s Theatre and Dance Department is presenting its annual Spring Dance Concert from Thursday, April 19 through Saturday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Freedlander Theatre. While the concert showcases the talents of guest artist, Liliona Quarmyne — an independent solo artist in Nova Scotia, Canada who…