Smith College’s Director of Culinary Services German Alvarado didn’t always know he wanted to work in the restaurant industry. Growing up in Los Angeles, born to a single mother and raised by his grandmother and aunts, food had been an important part of his life long before he was entirely aware of it.
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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.
On Mar. 16, 2024, the Smith women’s basketball team completed their final game of the season at the NCAA Division III National Tournament in Columbus, Ohio. Although New York University (NYU) defeated Smith 51-41, their journey to the national championship game was still a victory for the program.
Recently, I forced my girlfriend through the ordeal that any number of my friends, partners and casual acquaintances have been subjected to in the past — a showing of the 1982 classic “The Snowman.” Based on a picture book of the same name, “The Snowman” is a hand-illustrated silent short film accompanied by an original symphonic score. All aspects which my willing or unwilling viewers have no doubt found riveting. Not to mention that it inflicts more emotional damage than any children’s Christmas movie has a right to. Call it my artistic appreciation (or early onset depression) but its bittersweet mood is one of the many reasons it was my favorite film as a child.
This year, Smith College received a total of 8,666 applications for the Class of 2028, out of which 20.5% were admitted. The college expects to…
On Rally Day, Feb. 22, 2024, President Sarah Willie-LeBreton announced that five distinguished leaders — Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado, Ruth E. Carter, Ertharin Cousin, Jill…
On Jan. 16, the Botanic Garden of Smith College announced that five trees on campus will be removed early this year, including the long-standing sugar…
Hace un año, descubrí "La Increíblemente Verdadera Aventura de Dos Chicas Enamoradas" (1995), una bella película romántica independiente escrita y dirigida por un colega Smithie, Maria Maggenti '86 que cuenta la historia de cómo dos chicas adolescentes se enamoran la una de la otra.
The Student Government Association (SGA) of Smith College held its first presidential debate in several years on Tuesday, April 16. Three pairs of students were…