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 […]
Arts/Culture
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 […]
You Are Your Laptop Sticker
The Albion College student body is a diverse one and can be shown through laptop stickers. Some people can read a person by their body […]
Community and College Paint Public Pop Art of Albionites
Albion shares a connection with its sister cities in France, Noisy-le-Roi and Bailly. These two exurbs of Paris have something called the Impressionist Walk, where […]
“Welcome Home” Exhibit at EastEnd Gallery Merges Artist Coco Sweezy’s Roots
Art is not always easy or even pleasurable, but some artists are born with a passion in their souls that draws them to create, regardless […]
More Than a Superhero, Stan Lee Was a Father
On Nov. 12, I awoke to wish one hero a happy birthday and another hero farewell. Similar to many other children, I grew up with […]
Play Review: ‘Men on Boats’ is Off-the-Canyon Walls Funny
Written by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Albion College Theater department chair Zach Fischer, “Men on Boats” is a canny portrayal of the 1869 Powell […]
New Albion Adjunct Professors to Present Their Poetry at AC Reading Series
Every semester the Albion College English Department holds the AC Reading Series. The English Department provides these readings to let visiting professors share their work, […]
Sandwich Monday, Remembered: The Gobbler
In high school, I was a weekly subscriber to the satirical news feature, Sandwich Monday. Written by the humorists of National Public Radio’s Wait Wait […]
Opinion: A Half-Century-Old Song Cares More About Trans People Than the DOJ
In 2013, transgender woman Aimee Stephens announced to her Detroit funeral home employer she would wear women’s attire to work. Two weeks later, she was […]