The Smith College Department of Theater put on David Adjimi’s reimagining of “Marie Antoinette” in late October. This vibrant, witty show combined biting criticism of…
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New York Comic-Con (NYCC) took place Oct. 17 to 20 with crowds of well-known Marvel actors, horror film directors and voice actors spanning across fandoms.…
Charli XCX has single-handedly rendered it impossible to associate the color neon green with anything other than her latest release, “BRAT.” Her sixth studio album,…
On Sunday, Oct. 20, nineties shoegaze legends Drop Nineteens will be playing the newly reopened Iron Horse in Northampton, MA, with Olivia O. as their…
Cult classic film, “The Room” (2003), created by Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero, has gained the status from many publications of being the worst film…
Despite several stumbling blocks along the way, the UMass Theatre Guild’s spring production of “Firebringer” was a success thanks to the production’s strong crew, adaptable…
To Smith College Lecturer Adrián Gras-Velázquez, poetry is like a nutella sandwich. From its addictive nature to the feeling of his childhood, Adrián sees poetics as just as sweet. His debut poetry collection, “Lo que hago en mi habitación,” brings his writing to the forefront.
Radical bookstores are that important. Not just in theory, not just on paper, but in how we materially change the world. Bookends, the lesbian marxist bookstore in Florence, dauntingly takes on the task of running a bookstore aligned with its values, pushing against the imagined lesbian history of Northampton and working tirelessly to revive the real one.
Self-described “witchy feminist rockstar” Maggie Rogers is hitting the road again.
I discovered Rogers by chance in early 2019, shortly after her first studio album, “Heard It in a Past Life” came out. Since then, Rogers has released two albums, “Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011–2016” (2020) and “Surrender” (2022). During this time, I have grappled with simultaneously wanting to gate-keep Roger’s musical genius and impose it on all of my family, friends and acquaintances. Despite my greatest efforts, I have been unable to keep Maggie Rogers to myself.
About a year ago, I discovered “The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love” (1995), a beautiful independent romance film written and directed by a fellow Smithie, Maria Maggenti ’86 which tells the story of how two teenage girls fall in love with each other.