Music
An emotional album: ‘The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg’
“The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg,” the first proper album from South African pop group Beatenberg, is an album that furthers this idea. Released in 2014, the album is a compilation of stories—of youth, of bittersweet happiness, of nostalgia—and is one of the most innovative pop albums released in recent memory. Read More
Kanye
With ‘Pablo,’ Kanye West grows up—sort of
“The Life of Pablo” is not as good as “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” nor does it have the consistency of “Yeezus.” Read More
Bowie
Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ is fitting punctuation for an iconic career
If “Blackstar” tells us anything, it’s that Bowie wanted to be remembered for being himself, not Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane. Read More
Race
President Seligman responds to student petition on race relations
“I cannot ignore evidence that our campus climate can be improved,” Seligman stated in an email following Friday's student protest, in which protesters gave him a list of demands. Read More
Culture
Silent film still makes itself heard
Dziga Vertov's classic black-and-white film, "Man With a Movie Camera," hasn't lost its ability to capture audiences, 86 years after its release. Read More
Culture
An incisive mind, an eternal dream: the life and times of Steve Jobs
Danny Boyle’s latest film, “Steve Jobs,” occurs in an explicit three-act structure. The film focuses on the failures of Jobs (portrayed by Michael Fassbender) as a father, friend and human being. In Boyle’s eyes, occurred tangentially to three of his largest product launches—those of the Apple Macintosh, NeXT computer and iMac. In the first act, […]
Culture
Deerhunter album shoots straight
Late last month, before they released their seventh full-length album, “Fading Frontier,” the indie rock band Deerhunter put an interactive map of their influences on their website. The concept map, which was signed “B. Cox”—the moniker of the band’s singer, Bradford Cox—included such eclectic sources as Pharaoh Sanders, Tom Petty, “souless new car smell” and […]
News
Rob Clark named next University Provost
On Thursday, Oct. 15, University President Joel Seligman announced that Dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Senior Vice President for Research Robert Clark would become UR’s next provost. The audience of the press conference, which was held in the Simon School of Business Administration’s Eisenberg Rotunda, was made up of […]
News
Robert Clark to be next UR Provost
Dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Senior Vice President for Research Robert Clark will become the university’s next provost, University of Rochester President Joel Seligman announced at a Thursday press conference. Current UR Provost Peter Lennie announced earlier this month that he would be stepping down as provost. According to […]
Features
‘Scrambled eggs’ and academic freedom
The only time “the scrambled eggs hit the fan,” according to then-UR Provost and acting president McCrea Hazlett, was in 1962, when Monroe County District Attorney John J. Conway, Jr. requested that all county libraries and bookstores remove Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” from their bookshelves. This naturally included the University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees […]
