10. Eagulls – Eagulls Eagulls fit into the loud-is-more punk tradition of bands like Iceage and Savages, but unlike those groups, their first priority is the hook. On their eponymous debut, the English five-piece uses this strategy to great effect, creating what feels less like a sprawling mess of a record than one may expect given […]
Students packed into Weber Theater to watch TRYBE, Wheaton College’s Multicultural Dance Company and first student-run dance group, present their annual gala. Titled “Versus,” the show ran Thursday, Feb. 20 through Saturday, Feb. 22. TRYBE is made up of Wheaton students who not only respect each other’s cultural knowledge and differences, but also come together […]
One mark of a good play is its ability to touch the audience even when its trimmings – save for chair and a handful of props – are stripped away, leaving only space, people, and words. Students participating in Wheaton’s New Plays Festival on Feb. 22 and 23 did not have the luxury to hide […]
If you were to look at Wheaton’s Art Calendar at this very moment, you would quickly see a pattern. Under almost every event listed, you’ll see “Contact: Jessica Kuszaj.” Kuszaj is Wheaton’s Arts Events and Publicity Manager. She said that her primary focus is the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program. Of the program, […]
Wheaton Words, a series of monologues written by Wheaton students and alumnae, will be held on March 20, March 21 and March 23. The monologues are centered on various subjects such as sexuality, relationships and identity. The monologues are directed by Blair Davis ‘14 and Luke Demers ‘14 and produced by Sophie Howard ’14. Emily […]
Coinciding with the “Inner and Outer Space” exhibit, NASA affiliated artists Monica and Tyler Aiello completed a residency at Wheaton this past week. In addition to visiting four classes and eating “bad Chinese food,” as Gallery Director Michele L’Heureux joked, they also taught an art-making workshop. Monica and Tyler Aiello’s work focuses on visual representations […]
When we think of Rastafarianism, we usually tend to think of that black, red, and green image of Bob Marley smoking what is presumably marijuana. On Friday February 21st at 4 pm, ICB hosted Rastafarian members to educate the Wheaton community about the religion and its common misconceptions. “I think I read about Rastafarianism once, […]
Unhindered by the looming snowstorm or the copious amounts of chocolate potentially consumed on Valentine’s day or the day after for 75% off, the tappers of Tap Out Loud and the Latin dancers of Paraiso Latino took the stage for the third annual Festival of Dance. On February 14th and 15th, they showed Weber Theater […]
One night, Carrie Slayton took the chance with Lauren Robinson to consciously steal a seat to a sold out concert of Arctic Monkeys so the two could be together in the audience and successfully tracked back to Wheaton in the snow at 1:30. The Arctic Monkeys have been a Rock ’n Roll sensation for almost a […]
Starting on Jan. 20 and continuing until Feb. 26, the clean, bright, minimal Beard and Weil Galleries in Watson Fine Arts will be crawling with microbes. The galleries’ current exhibition, entitled Inner and Outer Space, is an exploration of the human desire to magnify that which we are too large to see, and to touch […]