Stevens shares history via music
“An Evening with Madame F,” written and performed by Claudia Stevens, was a breathtaking solo performance held this past Wednesday, April 27, in Sebring-Lewis Hall. The piece was a Holocaust memorial, composed of...
Amateurs produce quality plays
Main Lounge was filled with amateur actors, writers and directors Thursday evening as the Grinnell Independent Theater (GIT) held its first Playwright’s Festival in seven years. Four...
Poet memorizes famous works, creates own
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa spoke at convocation Thursday morning, reading several of his poems. Born in 1947 in Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam in the late 1960s and went on to become a...
Mucca Pazza: deranged carnival men?
There’s a picture of me from the last time Mucca Pazza clanged through Gardner in 2009. I’m wearing what might be the biggest and goofiest of all possible grins, eyes wide, staring into the...
German writer-in-residence continues long tradition
Probably the only person in the gym listening to audio books of German novelist Thomas Mann, Kristoff Magnusson is the German Department’s writer-in-residence this spring. The Berlin-based author is the most recent in a...
YGB sings, says goodbye to twelve seniors
Last Saturday April 16, Grinnell’s Young, Gifted, and Black Gospel Choir filled Herrick Chapel with sound. The singers clapped and swayed back and forth as they belted classics like...
Vignettes don’t quite portray “You, the Living!”
“You, the Living,” a 2007 Swedish film directed by Roy Andersson, is both a very big and very small movie. Its scope is certainly epic—the film contains 56 vignettes that portray the lives of a vast array of characters. The...
Collective efforts produce odd event
The Film and Concerts committees hosted a joint Animal Collective event last Wednesday, April 20. The film “Oddsac,” a 53-minute collection of new songs and score by Animal Collective and Danny Perez, an experimental...
Coen brothers go commercial
The Coen brothers have never made anything like “True Grit,” the second screen adaptation of the western novel by Charles Portis. The Coens have spent three decades building an arsenal of tactics for deconstructing genre...
HIV/AIDS stigma “Still Here”
Last Monday and Tuesday, Bob’s Underground Cafe was transformed into an old-timey Louisiana bar for the play “Still Here,” written and directed by Nik Jameson ’11. The play was...
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