MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) have, historically, featured the most current and shocking work in music entertainment since 1984 when Madonna gave her infamous Like a Virgin performance.
Read moreThis Summer in Music
One of the reasons I love summer is I have all the time I want to listen to new music.
Read moreInterview on Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Samuel Beckett and first published in French in 1949.
Read moreHave a Moment with Monet
This morning I slipped into the passenger seat of my friend's car and coasted down the mountain.
Read moreSIP Series: Nina Brock & Gordon Carpenter
After producing Covenant’s first New Play Festival as one of the last Theatre graduates, Nina Brock says that the stage has taught her invaluable lessons in leadership, vision, and illumination.
Read moreEd Sheeran
As his world tour continues to play sold-out stadiums in Brazil and the USA, yet another single from Ed Sheeran’s latest album, x (pronounced multiply), is slated to be released soon.
Read moreCultural Clash at the Hunter
Combining traditional Japanese woodblock prints with American street art, Gajin Fujita leads viewers into a hybridity of Japanese and American visual culture.
Read moreThe New Play Festival Review
In lieu of a spring musical this year, Covenant’s Theatre department presented the New Play Festival, a collection of ten student-written plays, each ten minutes in length. The Festival was presented this weekend with performances on Thursday and Friday nights, as well as a matinee performance on Saturday. Preparation for the production began in October with the reading of proposed plays, and the festival was put on entirely by students.
Read moreSIP Series: Meagan Drew & Ethan Hard
For the past three months, the campus community remained peacefully unaware of the lethal danger spawning in the Jackson Art Building. Perhaps the demolition of the near-by Art Barn should’ve been a sign that the area housed a biohazard. Perhaps visual art and pre-nursing student, Meagan Drew would’ve thought twice before cultivating some of the most rampant and unanticipated viruses of the past century—AIDS, Measles, and the newly discovered Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome.
Read moreBroadchurch
On the Jurassic coast of Britain lies a charming, tight-knit little town called Broadchurch. But in the opening scenes of the BBC’s series of the same name, we learn that this town is not as blissful as one might think. After a visually gripping sequence of what appears to be a young boy committing a midnight suicide, the town of Broadchurch is re-introduced as an endearing, everyone-knows-everyone kind of community.
Read moreSIP Series: Caleb Stoltzfus and Olivia Stein
Caleb Stoltzfus was travelling by train to his tutor’s studio in Philadelphia when images of the Escalon—the saints’ resurrection—slid out of his head and into his sketchbook.
Read moreCinderella Review
Ever see your college-aged friends squeal over coloring books? Watching Cinderella in the Majestic theatre felt exactly like squealing over coloring books, or like curling up in bed having bedtime stories read to you. The first day of spring, with Rita’s free Italian ice beforehand with four other girls, it was a fine day to take a break from being an almost-twenty-something.
Read moreSIP Series: Adrienne Siegenthaler and Jamison Shimmel
Growing up in Cullman, Alabama, English major Adrienne Siegenthaler understands how true to life the snake-handling, charismatic characters of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction can be. She also sympathizes with O’Connor’s bemused yet appreciative attitude toward churches where the “gospel is the crazy, shocking, and unbelievable.” This theme became the crux of her 10 minute SIP presentation Thursday, March 19th.
Read moreWhen a Joyful Noise Has Four Corners
It is almost guaranteed that Sacred Harp singers will be the ones who wake the dead at the Second Coming.
Read moreSIP Series: Peter Hennigan and Lynae Rockwell
Any decent SIP for the history department must contain at least a fair amount of “blood, sweat and tears,” in accordance with Dr. Jay Green’s favorite recipe. As senior History major Peter Hennigan investigates inter-racial conflict during the Harlem Renaissance, he has discovered that this is true in more ways than one.
Read moreTo Pimp a Butterfly
On March 16, Kendrick Lamar dropped his new album To Pimp a Butterfly a week early. The album was an instant success, shattering Spotify’s streaming records set only a few weeks earlier by Drake’s If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late. Despite its success, Lamar’s new album is much less accessible than his 2012 album Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. To Pimp a Butterfly sees Lamar shifting gears, working with producers such as Thundercat and Flying Lotus to make instrumentals that resemble old-school boom bap and jazz rap with a modern twist.
Read moreAn Open Letter to Bekah
Dear Bekah,
By now it is quite clear that the damage done to your sculpture was not as malicious as we originally suspected. I still feel compelled, however, to speak directly to you about what happened last Wednesday night. Your piece has joined a sad club of defaced art, bruised by anger, ignorance, and the inflated ego of a viewer. Unfortunately this kind of vandalism has a long history, both at Covenant and throughout art history.
Read moreSenior SIP Series: Zach Plating and Aften Whitmore
Senior English major Zach Plating is an aficionado of the graphic novel, and particularly appreciates the medium’s ability to relay difficult themes through both visual and literary art. For his SIP, the English major is analyzing how personal growth and identity are portrayed in “autographies,” or autobiographical graphic novels.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
There’s a new girl in town—that girl being former doomsday cult member Kimmy Schmidt and that town being, well, New York City. The latest in Netflix’s new line of in-house TV shows, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, follows the story of a girl who has just been discovered in an underground bunker where she has spent the last 17 years of her life, thinking the world had ended. Rather than returning to her life in Indiana, Kimmy wants a fresh start and takes her middle-school-educated self to New York City where she hopes to stay out of the public eye and simply “be normal.”
Read moreMorton/Morty/Jeff
They’re not footballs. That was the first line of critique Jeff Morton gave my still-life painting when I was a senior at Covenant and before he was hired. Indeed there are no terminal lines on soup can lids. Watch your whites. OK, the clouds in my small landscape painting were straight-from-the-tube of unmixed color and unconvincing. Pretty direct critique, it seemed, and blunt. And very on-target. That irritated me. It also convinced me he was a first-rate professor with an eye for painting that doesn’t get taught. His nonchalance was of a Yale survivor.
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