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Documentary filmmaking duo share professional experience
Saeed Husain Chief Copy Editor Documentary filmmaking duo Tom Donohue and Dominique LaRoche visited The College of Wooster last week to share their experiences shooting films in Cuba, the Galápagos and the Arctic. Both filmmakers were part of two sessions. In the first, they showed and talked about their films, while in the second, they…
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Kero Kero Bonito
If you don’t know Kero Kero Bonito by now, you’ve been doing something wrong. Creators of gem albums like “Bonito Generation” and “Intro Bonito,” Kero Kero Bonito have been farting out classics for the past five years now. They have established a distinct international wonk pop sound that is unique to all other group dynamic…
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Art history students curate new exhibit in CWAM
Ellie Kahn Contributing Writer Throughout the semester, Wooster students have been collaborating with The College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM) for an interactive multi-dimensional approach to learning. CWAM has been an integral part of the upper-level art history course titled The Art of Medieval Devotion, which is taught by Professor Kara Morrow. Students in the…
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Songwriting Club brings collaborative spirit to the arts
Claire Wineman Contributing Writer Being a student at Wooster provides plenty of songwriting material: how many times you’ve eaten cereal in Lowry this week, the deeply philosophical questions posed in class or how cute the black squirrels look in the freezing snow. For many people on campus though, songwriting already provides one of the best…
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“12 Strong” is Weak
There are many thought provoking, artful and compelling war films — “12 Strong” is not one of them. Throughout its two hour run time, I was amazed by how blatantly bland and formulaic the film was, especially because it was based on a compelling true story. “12 Strong” dramatizes the actions of a dozen American…
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“WET” is a compelling performance about living undocumented
Eleanor Linafelt A&E Editor On Jan. 31, 2018, exactly one year after he re-entered the United States following an arduous attempt to gain legal status at the dawn of Donald Trump’s presidency, Alex Alpharaoh graced Freedlander Theatre with his heart-wrenching and deeply informative one-man performance, “WET: A DACAmented Journey” brought to the College by theatre…