The Scene spoke with the eight case members of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, which is currently playing in the Bonn Studio. The students spoke about their experiences dealing with issues of race and how the play can initiate conversation on race at BC.
Column, Arts
The Crisis Of BC’s Art Spaces
By: John Wiley
The closing of the Spring Student Art Show last Thursday in the basement of Bapst Library has left the gallery empty, and potentially, closed for good. A short walk through the University’s academic areas gives an unflattering perspective on Boston College’s treatment of student work in its recent expansion.
Arts
For Colored Girls’: The Story Beyond The Script
By: John Wiley, Ariana Igneri, Michelle Tomassi
The Scene spoke with the eight case members of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, which is currently playing in the Bonn Studio. The students spoke about their experiences dealing with issues of race and how the play can initiate conversation on race at BC.
Arts
Three Acts Advance In BC’s Battle Of The Bands
By: John Wiley
Supporters of the three bands that did not make it to the next round filed out of the Vanderslice Cabaret room quickly, disappointed, some looking exhausted. For members of Juice, Seaver’s Express, and Bobnoxious & the Master Craftsmen, however-the evening’s three winning acts-the occasion was momentous.
Arts, Music
Lift Your Spirit’ Weighed Down By Heavy Production
By: John Wiley
Lift Your Spirit overshadows Aloe Blacc’s impressive vocals with excessive manipulation and studio-produced sounds.
Column, Arts
A Portrait Of The Critic As An Old Man
By: John Wiley
I wonder if anything will be lost in our records as criticism turns to recap? As technologies for valuing entertainment become more refined, our sense of what they’re actually gauging grows increasingly abstract.
Arts
DJ Enferno To Headline Plexapalooza
By: John Wiley
DJ Enferno is set to headline Plexapalooza on March 22 at 9 p.m., with John Pierson as the featured act. Tickets for the concert will go on sale this Tuesday at 8 a.m. through the Robsham box office, available for $15 with a BC ID.
On Campus, Column, Arts
Boston College’s Missing Artistic Identity
Whenever I get the chance to speak with an artist on campus, I find myself tagging the same question to the end of each interview: why do the arts matter at Boston College?
Arts, Column
Boston College’s Missing Artistic Identity
By: John Wiley
Whenever I get the chance to speak with an artist on campus, I find myself tagging the same question to the end of each interview: why do the arts matter at Boston College?
On Campus, Arts
Baker’s ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ Comes To Bonn Studio Theatre
By: John Wiley
Circle Mirror Transformation, presented by the Boston College Theatre Department, was a rare production that kept itself acutely concerned with character.
