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Tess Yanisch '13 | In which our protagonist goes to Chicago with eight other Obies and they do seriously amazing stuff. And we have videos.
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Will Mason '10 | On performing at CMJ over fall break
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Joe Dawson '12 | Setting: Science Center Atrium, Thursday, October 15, Midterm week. Joe begins typing his 5th page of a roughly 6-page paper...
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Marsha Lynn Bragg | One of the benefits of working at a college or university is having access to some of the best writers, scientists, academicians, researchers, musicians, artists, social reformers, environmentalists, and politicians of the day.
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Alice Ollstein '10 | Finally, after almost 20 hours of waiting, I had original paintings by Goya and Toulouse Lautrec in my hands.
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Prof. David Walker '72 | On theater, travel, and the Oberlin connection.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Remember when I was talking about opportunities? Allow me to expound upon another opportunity that I encountered late last semester, involving dance. Just to shake things up a bit, I'm not going to write about Indian dance again.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Want to make your own banjo out of a gourd? You can do it. Want to be part of a gamelan ensemble? You can do that, too.
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Will Mason '10 | Notes from a month spent touring with an Oberlin rock band.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | As a cinema studies major, I don't have exams. If you're in a more traditional cinema class (think English, but your texts are films), you have final papers, but if you're in production classes, you're spending all your time editing, shooting (god help you if this is the case), editing more, printing to tape, and attending your class and other production class screenings.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Despite study breaks, things still get odd around finals.
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Chris Gollmar '10 | I never knew how much Randolph Coleman meant to me and how much of an impact he has made on my life until he retired.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I've had a request for Circus photos, so I warn you, this is a very photo heavy post. Actually, it's a photo log of the entire show.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Building a circus can be outrageously different from theater. Circus creates issues you don't have to worry about with theater: like insurance, or fire permits. And not having a script. Or a stage manager. This makes everything even MORE exciting than normal!
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | There comes a weekend in April that you don't necessarily know how it exists. Namely, there is so much packed into a 72 hour period that you need something akin to a Time-Turner (from Harry Potter, lest you forget) to process everything.
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Chris Gollmar '10 | New music is alive and well in Oberlin, but so is the old. A look at the concerts I attended or performed in this past week.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Tonight: Music party at Harkness, with Andrew Gombas, Birthday Kids, and Dos Mil Días De Fuego. Before that, I saw Spring Back, a dance show, so it's been... a long night. My ears hurt. My thighs hurt. I am super-duper happy.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | For the record, I am already scared of this story, but hearing it retold in such a dark and echoey space, preluded by an organ piece played in a dark room, well, it was amazing and nerve-wracking. It was the coolest shoot I've even been involved in.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | That extra dash of terror because I don't really know what will happen next in my part is always exciting.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | I went into the first lesson armed with ten years of violin lessons, one year of music theory, and a textbook.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | Oberlin is a mecca for all things music, and not just because of the Conservatory. Cool awesome bands and musicians are here all the time, at a fraction of the cost of most performances in the real world.
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Joe Dawson '12 | I love warm weather. Everything feels better when you can walk out the front door and realize you're wearing
too many layers.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | Papageno, essentially a humanized bird and bird catcher, sang about how he wanted to catch chicks. And when he said "chicks," he didn't mean those little yellow baby chickens.
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Yitka Winn '09 | Several weeks ago, I found myself on a top floor balcony suite at a ski resort 300 miles away, talking and sharing laughs with a couple of the freshest talents out of Cleveland. How did I wind up there?
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | For three weeks of the year, the walls of the Bent corridor (which I totally thought was just a descriptor, not the name of two illustrious alumni, up until last week) are graced with beautiful local artwork from students from the 9th Congressional District. I was ever so lucky to be there photographing it.
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Will Mason '10 | There were, of course, pages of specific instructions and a symbol key, but that doesn't change the fact that for my friend's recital I was required to look at a photo of a rabbit man in a suit running away from artillery fire and translate it into a part for drum set/percussion.
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Yitka Winn '09 | I had envisioned myself waking up with the sun and birds each morning, going for a long run during which I'd plan out my writing for the day, then plunking down with my laptop and an oversized mug of fair-trade coffee at Oberlin Market and getting to work.
(Nope.)
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Yitka Winn '09 | Forget that there was no hot water in my bathroom and that the hotel gym cost an extra $18 a day to work out at; I was delighted with our 13th floor window overlooking Lake Michigan, and the opportunity to spend some time with Linda, whom I adore.
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne '09 | There's more to the New York art scene than pretentiousness and Andy Warhol, but you certainly won't find it in this post. What you will find is a retrospective of some of the various art--both deliberate and not--that we happened to come across during our afternoon visit.
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Joe Dawson '12 | "Ha! Zeez are not musician's 'ands! Zees are scientist 'ands, for working in ze laboratory! Out! Out!"
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | There is, in fact, only one magical way to schedule all the performances (AND hit every single "Welcome back to a new semester! We missed you!" activity AND manage to see all your friends who you missed all of winter term... which can all coincide sometimes).
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Joe Dawson '12 | The second of two pieces I wrote during first semester about performances in Oberlin.
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Will Mason '10 | Four months of hard work and many sleepless nights have resulted in an album that is, from conception to production, entirely ours.
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Joe Dawson '12 | The movie centered on Darius, a 15-year-old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Darius' brother Mario died of the same disease when he was 19, and Darius talks about his brother occasionally during the film.
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Will Mason '10 | Bartok and Techno, but not at the same time.
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Yitka Winn '09 | She told me how excited she was about the reading, and went on with something to the effect of: "I feel like all you creative writing majors have this separate writing world you live in sometimes. It's obviously such a huge part of your lives, and yet most of the rest of us never get to be a part of it."
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Nicolee Kuester '10 | The sun is out for the second day in a row, the thermometer out back says 0 degrees, and it's so dry that five miles to the west I can see the snow-frozen Rockies as clear as if they were a Bob Ross painting. The semester is done. I am home in Colorado.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | The money raised by Work it for Women was to help women with the costs of an abortion: travel, overnight stays and child care.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | The real difference between seeing the dress and the show, though, is the audience. I've been in performance audiences lovingly called the "little audience that could," the small audiences that make up for lacking size with more emotion, appreciation, and gusto than a full house.
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Will Mason '10 | All jazz combos at Oberlin are student-formed, and the repertoire is student-selected, and I think this is critical for a number of reasons.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | It's been over a week since the final performance of the Johnson Family Circus. I'm in an extraordinary position to continue reliving the show for days, weeks, even months after.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Is this safe? Safe enough.
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Nicolee Kuester '10 | First things first: if you're around town you should go see the opera
Cendrillon when it goes up this coming week.
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Zoë McLaughlin '11 | This weekend, being parents' weekend, saw many, many events. The one I attended today was FELL, the 2008 student dance concert, which consisted of pieces choreographed and performed solely by students.
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Ma'ayan Plaut '10 | I had cancelled most of my plans for the weekend to write my script for cinema, and was currently completely outlined but not written. And I needed inspiration. A room full of creative souls seemed like a good place to be for two hours of my precious Sunday time.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | We may not be blood relations, but we are a family.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | I listened to Jim's piece "Chorale" this morning. Damn, it was great.
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Aries Indenbaum '09 | Ratatat, playing at the Sco on Tuesday, was insane.
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Will Mason '10 | The Oberlin Conservatory attracts a number of world-class musicians, but its presence on campus is also a major draw for college students who wish to continue studying music without committing to a pre-professional program.
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Will Mason '10 | We Oberlin students are a lucky bunch. The campus provides an impossible number of lectures, exhibits, readings, and performances, and we are burdened with the enviable luxury of bouncing around from event to event, gorging ourselves on art and music and culture until exhaustion necessitates a break.
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Max Strasser '09 | I usually don't like bowling at all. (This might be just because I am exceptionally bad at it.) But last night, I had a good time.
