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…
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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.
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.
Smith College Department of Theatre performed “You on the Moors Now,” a play by Jaclyn Brackhaus from Feb. 28–Mar. 2. The experience was a whirlwind, satirical, hyper-feminist fanfiction...
“The Holdovers” relishes in the powers of its actors, its dialogue and its setting. The film takes an angry kid, a washed up academic and…
Annie Rauwerda is a 24-year-old comedian who had never been to western Massachusetts. But, she certainly knows a lot about it. She’s read up on…
On Nov. 3, singer-songwriter Amelia Day released her sophomore EP (Extended Play), “Little One.” Coming off the heels of her 2022 folk EP “Eastward of Eden,” “Little One” is a love letter to the stages of growing up, wrapped up in a 6-track eclectic patchwork of genres.
On April 6, indie-pop band The Aces graced the John M. Greene stage as part of Smith’s annual Celebrations, an event dedicated as a response…