By: John Wiley
After appearing in last semester’s production of Three Sisters, Maggie Kearnan, A&S ’14, is making her directorial debut with The Circle Mirror Transformation in two weeks.
Arts
Wins And Losses: The Best And Worst Of Super Bowl Halftime Shows
By: John Wiley, Ariana Igneri, Michelle Tomassi
The Scene remembers the five best and five worst acts in the history of the Super Bowl.
Arts, Music
Rapper Cities Aviv Builds On ‘Yeezus’ Aesthetics In Debut
By: John Wiley
Cities Aviv’s debut album Come to Life pays tribute to Kanye West, while exploring new possibilities in the rap genre.
Arts, Column
COLUMN: ‘Turn Turn Turn’: The Life And Dying Of Pete Seeger
By: John Wiley
There’s clear danger in reducing a man’s life to a metaphor, but Pete Seeger’s story is all the more compelling to me when I remember him as a stranger along the Hudson.
Arts, On Campus
28 Years Later: Baden, ‘Every Day,’ And The Wheels Project
By: John Wiley
BC Professor Karl Baden explores the many faces of photography in The Wheels Project on display in Waltham, MA.
Arts, Column
Retouched Beauty: Changing Bodies And Saving Face
By: John Wiley
The Aerie Real campaign marks a shift in retail practices away from exclusionary standards. Women’s magazines and other institutions of high fashion, however, are unlikely to adopt the inclusive attitudes of retailers.
Arts, Music
Damien Jurado’s Latest Is A Smart, Often Odd Investigation Of Folk Genre
By: John Wiley
Brothers and Sisters by folk artist Damien Jurado is a dicey, poetic work, broadly inaccessible, but rewarding for those open to its strangeness.
Arts, Column
Award Shows’ Decline In The Internet Age
By: John Wiley
In the Internet era, the “award show” is an outdated institution.
