Culture
dryden theater
Cinema classics new again at the Dryden Theater
The Dryden Theater, the in-house cinema of the George Eastman Museum, specializes in presenting movies, old and new, in the way they were originally meant to be experienced. Seeing a movie in a theater usually involves a lot of buildup, a sort of drum-roll before the big reveal. With most movies this entails 15 minutes […]
clothesline festival
Clothesline Festival has more than garments
Hundreds of booths lined the Memorial Art Gallery for the Clothesline Festival, in which local artists from the Rochester community presented their projects on Sunday, Sept. 9. The crafts spanned from leather, metal, and glass, to photography, mixed media, painting, and digital art. “Art should be able to transform the room it decorates, and what […]
Not Vanilla
Not Vanilla: Cycles of hype
Dear reader, we have to address the harsh truth that we have both been avoiding. Summer is over. And while I am happy to not be sweating in my sleep every night, I know we both will miss the amazing gifts that summer gives us, like sunny summer days, thrilling summer blockbusters, and countless summer […]
CT Recommends
CT Recommends: the satire of Armando Iannucci
Nobody’s quite sure what links terror and comedy, but most people know that the link exists. After all, what are the two things most people do on roller coasters? They scream and laugh. It is this relationship that Armando Iannucci, the brilliant British satirical writer and director, explores in three of his works of political […]
Hartnett
In Hartnett, a late professor’s final works
The Hartnett Gallery opened its doors this week with the final remaining works of Professor Elizabeth Cohen, who directed the UR internship program, Art New York, until her death in May 2017. The UR Studio Art Department honored Cohen by displaying her works in the exhibition, “Departures from Precedent”, from Sept. 5 through Sept. 9. Cohen, […]
Friday Night Live
At The Lightest thrives on atmosphere
Student band At The Latest performed for an hour at Starbucks on Friday night, Aug. 31. It was one of the few concerts that I’ve attended, and one of the few that I’ve enjoyed. But it wasn’t the music or the quality of the performance that made it enjoyable — it was the casual and […]
Ella Mai
Ella Mai dazzles the student and local community
I have never, in my time on this campus, seen so many people from the Rochester community congregated in one place for an artist that seemed so incredibly loved. This year’s Yellowjacket Weekend performance in Douglass Ballroom featured Ella Mai and her opening act, Ishmael Raps. Though perhaps it was not as crowded as last […]
frat reviews
A party at Chi Phi, reviewed
What is hell? In 1320, Dante Alighieri's epic poem "La Divina Commedia" depicted hell as a swirling inferno, composed of nine circles of torture. The first circle was a holding pen for the unbaptized. From there down, souls were afflicted by physical manifestations of sin for all eternity. Lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, and […]
Movie Review
What Netflix’s ‘Ghoul’ tells us about the future of film
Despite its marketing material, Netflix’s new miniseries “Ghoul” is not horror. It is, however, everything else. Where do I start with “Ghoul”? Do I start with its breath of sensory nuance into Indian filmmaking? Do I start with its contemporary political relevance? Or with its audacity to market itself as horror when in fact it […]
Podcasts
Not Vanilla: Exploring side content
Hello, reader! I hope your summer was wonderful or, at the very least, tolerable. I spent mine taking full advantage of my UR-provided HBO Go account. I finally had the time and the energy to really dive deep into a show. I landed on “Westworld” — the second season had premiered late in April, and […]