Arts and Culture


  • Just For The Record: The Importance of Physical Media in the Digital Age

    Located on the first floor of Balfour-Hood, tucked in between Pappas Fitness Center and the Lyon’s Den, lies The Vlad, the on-air radio studio for the Wheaton College Communications Station (WCCS). As a WCCS Executive Member and self-appointed custodian of The Vlad, I’m in charge of training new radio hosts on how to use the…

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  • Dance Fest 2024: Momentum, A Major Success

    Dance Fest 2024: Momentum, A Major Success

    Momentum saw big numbers, with over one thousand people who came to show support for the five groups performing this past weekend. 

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  • WCCS Winter Playlist

    WCCS Winter Playlist

    A playlist for the frigid winter months at Wheaton – Brought to you by WCCS, your campus radio station. 

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  • The Death of a Snow Day?

    The Death of a Snow Day?

    A short snapshot of Wheaton students on the first snow day of the year

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  • Why Are Studios Deleting Finished Movies?

    Let’s talk about the atrocious phenomenon in Hollywood where a studio will fund a movie, write, direct, and edit it, and then delete the entire thing, erasing all of the work put into the project and spitting in the faces of those who contributed.  I hate this. Why do they do this? Well, it’s movie…

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  • WCCS Winter Playlist

    By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris  To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com  Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes…

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  • WCCS Winter Playlist

    By Michael Kanyongolo and John Morris  To listen to more of Michael and John’s favorite music, tune in to “No Static At All” on Thursdays from 7-8 at wheatoncollgeradio.com  Michael’s Winter Picks Here Comes the Moon – George Harrison If Here Comes the Sun is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny summer day, Here Comes…

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  • 6  Winter Break Book Recommendations 

    6  Winter Break Book Recommendations 

    One of my favorite reads this year was Claire Dederer’s searching book, part memoir and part piece of cultural criticism. She examines our post Me Too society, but looks more deeply at the question of “can you separate the art from the artist?”, instead interrogating what it means to live in an age where we…

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  • Actors and AI: What the end of the SAG-AFTRA Strike Means for the Television and Film Industry

    Actors and AI: What the end of the SAG-AFTRA Strike Means for the Television and Film Industry

    At long last, the 118 day actor’s strike has ended, following the end of the WGA writer’s strike which ended in late September. For those of you who don’t know the motivation behind the two strikes- as always, they lie in pay and benefits, and now concerns over streaming and artificial intelligence.  Streaming essentially took…

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  • The Making of a Poetry Festival

    The Making of a Poetry Festival

    The Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival took place this past weekend, marking the first event of its kind on Wheaton’s campus. The festival included round table discussions held by visiting poets, a showcase that featured undergraduate students from the Boston area and Wheaton alum, as well as a poetry reading by a local arts…

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon Review: A Masterfully Told Tragedy

    Killers of the Flower Moon Review: A Masterfully Told Tragedy

    I was rather shocked to learn that 80 year old director Martin Scorsese had another movie set to release so soon after 2020’s “The Irishman.” “Irishman” was a movie filled with themes of what it’s like to see the world change around you as you grow old. Seemingly the perfect film for a director with…

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  • Do Wheaton College Artists Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Do Wheaton College Artists Dream of Electric Sheep?

    A Conversation on A.I Art In the past few months, it has been nearly impossible to escape the A.I. conversation. Almost every American industry has had conversations on what their futures hold with the growing strength of online predictive algorithms like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. One such group that has had especially fascinating…

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  • Resurrecting the Artist

    Resurrecting the Artist

    A response to “The Death of the Artist.”

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  • Lost Heirlooms and Free Expression

    Lost Heirlooms and Free Expression

    By Elsie Carson and Lily Maguire “Get naked or get out!” Those five words were bright and bold on the Art Haus wall in their living room for years. First painted on in 2019, the words became the motto for Art Haus. One didn’t actually have to get naked or get out, but these words…

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  • The Movie Industry’s Franchise Obsession

    Jurassic Park, Terminator, Mission Impossible, James Bond, Fast and Furious, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, The MCU, The DCU, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, the number of major movie franchises seems to grow larger and larger with each passing year. Stale ideas being remixed and recast until the final product has only a small…

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  • Spring 2023 Fashion Trends on Wheaton Campus

    Spring 2023 Fashion Trends on Wheaton Campus

    Spring has always been seen as the season of floral dresses, light clothing, and pastel color palettes. However, our Spring feels currently like an extended winter with sporadic, short-lived warm days in Norton. In light of the erratic weather, here are Wheaton’s must-haves and trends. 1. Leather Leather, either faux or genuine, has been seen…

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  • Reflecting on Embodied Labor: Care and Control

    Reflecting on Embodied Labor: Care and Control

    The Motherless by Elihu Vedder – Wheaton College Massachusetts Its gold frame warmly hugging the subject within, Elihu Vedder’s small oil painting depicts a young girl sitting in a barn looking over three baby chicks. The implication is that she is not just watching them, but caring for them. The title “The Motherless” applies not…

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  • The Inevitable End of Succession’s Social Satire

    The Inevitable End of Succession’s Social Satire

    Succession. The struggle for power and lasting influence that each member of the fictional Roy family faces can be neatly summed in the show’s one word title. And what a struggle it is.  The Roys are the family that sits at the center of Succession and are essentially the show’s fictional equivalent of the real…

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  • What Kind of Man is Indiana Jones? 

    There’s a point in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Rene Belloq, the film’s villain, claims that he and Indiana Jones are distorted mirror images of each other, that all it would take would be one bad day to turn the film’s morally-ambiguous hero into a villain. This scene, to a certain extent, is the…

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  • Gender and the Brit Awards

    Today, the Brit Awards is one of the most progressive awards shows, so why did they move backward? Events such as the Brits, the Grammys, or even the iHeart Radio Awards are all crucial pieces of pop cul- ture in the music industry, so during the spring of every year, fan bases are fighting to…

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