Review: Miss Americana
Review: Miss Americana In her Netflix documentary, released on Friday, Taylor Swift shows viewers a side of her that they’re not accustomed to seeing. Swift […]
Arts/Culture
Play Review: “Intimate Apparel” Takes off on Opening Night
The cast of “Intimate Apparel” brought the drama and laughter of long distance relationships in a time before smartphones and social media to a delighted […]
Republic of Georgia Celebrated at Albion Festival
When you walk into Albion College director of choral activities Clayton Parr’s office one of the most noticeable features is the large Georgian poster hanging […]
Albionite Maggie LaNoue Draws the Community Together
In each of Maggie LaNoue’s Albion-centered art pieces, details like buildings and people give way to the larger picture: Albion’s small-town atmosphere condensed onto paper. […]
To Predict if Woodstock 50 Will Succeed, a Look at the Festival’s History
“Three Days of Peace and Music.” That was the promise on posters made by Woodstock concert promoter Michael Lang and others when recruiting what would […]
A Chest Full of Photographs — On the Aesthetics of Old Photos
A few weeks after my Great-Uncle Bill died, my mom came home from the sweltering backwoods mountains of Arkansas with an old trunk. It was […]
Play Review: ‘Ordinary Days’ Works in Extraordinary Ways
A struggling couple, two unlikely friends and 19 back-to-back songs had the audience glued to their seats in the opening performance of the musical “Ordinary […]
Artist-in-Residence Brandon Lacow’s Art Centers on Queer Identity, Domesticity
Fence lumber and crocheted yarn may not be the first two materials that come to mind when one thinks of constructing an art piece, but […]
Review: The Best and Worst Super Bowl 2019 Commercials
When it comes to the Super Bowl, you’re either a football person or you’re a commercial person. I’ve never met a person who claims to […]
Catching Up With Walk the Beat’s Best Acts
For the past three years, Albion’s first October weekend has been filled with music. Over 40 singer-songwriters, bands, choirs and musical community groups converge in […]
Review: ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Makes RBG an Epic Hero, Her Opposition Overtly Evil
“On the Basis of Sex” is a historically fascinating movie about the early academic and legal career of now-Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth […]
Best, Worst and In-Between Albums of 2018
Hey, everyone. Andthony Wittano here, the Pleiad’s busiest music nerd. It’s time for my yearly review of what I thought were the best, worst and […]