The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival 2021, a week-long collection of virtual events, ranging from poetry readings to workshops, raised money for The Emily Dickinson Museum and honored the Amherst local herself.
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“I’ve gotta break up sincerity with humor every now and again,” said Julien Baker after making her audience laugh and moments before launching into her devastating song “Sprained Ankle” at a sold-out but intimate show at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, on tour for her 2021 album “Little Oblivions.”
As I arrived at Amherst College’s first live show of the season, sponsored by their radio station WAMH, I discovered that no one was in…
This semester, the Smith College Music Department made an unprecedented change: it will now allow all students to take performance lessons.
A show that only knows how to develop female characters by raping them is not a show made for women or survivors. When writers create strong female characters, they are creating some of the only positive role models that young viewers have. Raping them to make them more appeasing to the male gaze is a vile and inaccessible dramatic mechanism that carelessly perpetuates gendered violence.
In Avatar, the Water Tribe is conceived as an expansive global culture, but self sacrificing women in the real world often operate on a smaller scale, one of family or community
It’s time to talk about the one and only time I ever enjoyed myself while taking a standardized test.
“Twerk is political.” Katelina Eccleston, aka Reggaetón con la Gata, expressed this sentiment shared by all seven women and non-binary speakers and performers at the “Creating Nuestra Música: Latinx Women in the Music Scene” series.
Taylor Swift released “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” (“TV”) April 9, a re-recording of her 2008 album “Fearless.” The release is the first in a series of planned re-recordings of Swift’s first six albums. This follows a highly publicized battle over the ownerships of the albums, which were acquired by talent manager Scooter Braun as part of an acquisition with Big Machine Records, Swift’s former label.
This month, the Arts & Culture Section brings you a playlist about new beginnings: the thrill and fear of fresh starts, learning from the past…