The night may have been chilly for what the Smith College Student Government Association (SGA) dubbed their Spring Concert, but the frigid weather deterred no…
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From the late 1980s through the 2010s, the romantic comedy reigned supreme. Filmmakers such as Nancy Meyers, Nora Ephron, Rob Reiner, Garry Marshall and Richard…
On a dark and frigid Friday evening, Josten Library’s mezzanine transformed into a cozy performance space as it filled with Micah Walter and Laurie Tupper’s…
I would rather ignore the overstated and flat-out boring critical truism that every recession brings a new wave of dance music. Bleak times make for…
The Sophian interviewed Allegra Hyde, Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature at Smith, about her short story “Endangered.” Originally published in American Short Fiction…
When I walked into the Hallie Flanagan Studio Theater to an announcement cheerily telling me to “Enjoy Scissoring,” I didn’t quite know what to expect.…
Disclaimer: this article contains spoilers. On Sunday, March 2, Sean Baker’s “Anora” swept the 96th Academy Awards, winning five of the six categories it was…
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…
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.