Overlooking Los Angeles’ Echo Park is the statue “The Queen of Angels,” which became the inspiration for Lydia Ainsworth’s new record, Darling of the Afterglow. Ainsworth, a Torontonian electro-pop singer, released her album on March 31. She recorded the album in the same Toronto studio where she made her 2014 debut album, Right from Real….
This week The Mac Weekly bids farewell to its own seniors. The incoming Editors-in-Chief talk with Rachel Wilson, Jamie Goodin, Ellie Fuqua, Jake Greenberg, Max Horvath, Maddie Jaffe, Eliza Ramsey, Allie Korbey, Kate Rhodes and Esha Datta. They discuss office memories and the Wac Meekly. TMW: This is the last paper with all your names…
In light of the recent article “MAX Center tutors revise mission statement; administration disputes changes,” and the various responses to it, we tutors at the MAX Center would like to discuss with the rest of the Macalester community exactly what it is that we do. It is important to us that the Macalester community understand…
David Arbit ’07 is a Geography and Political Science double major who was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Right after Mac, he headed to the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and received a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning with a focus on housing and economic development. Currently a research manager for the Minneapolis…
At its core, the “Midway Murals” project is only four walls and one man in the Hamline Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul. Its goals, including economic development, community engagement and bridging divides between immigrants and nonimmigrant community members, are as ambitious as the project’s leader, neighborhood resident Jonathan Oppenheimer. Funded by the John S. and…
The Mac Weekly caught up with Anna Cavallo ’05, a linguistics major originally from Madison, Wisconsin. Cavallo currently works as a senior editor for Lerner Publishing Group, a Minneapolis-based, independently-owned children’s book publisher that is one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Cavallo was also a concertmaster in the Macalester Symphony Orchestra….
Originally from the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, first-generation college student Denise Hạnh Huỳnh graduated from Macalester in 2007 with a major in anthropology and a minor in psychology. After receiving her master’s in public policy from the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota, Huỳnh now works as a research associate at Wilder Research,…
Daniel Vidal Soto ’10 is an English major with a concentration in creative writing who grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and Acuña, Coahuila, México. Author of the poetry chapbook “Demon in Plastic,” Vidal Soto currently teaches at Long Island University and guest lectures at Cornell University on gentrification. On the side, he practices his…
Majra Mucić ‘11 is an international studies major with a focus in economics and minors in sociology and political science, who is originally from Bosnia. Mucić is currently a program specialist for Land O’Lakes International Development, a division of the famed butter company that generates economic growth in over 80 nations across the world. She’s…
This week, The Mac Weekly talked with Kevin J. Williams ’09 , a psychology major born in New York who came to Macalester from Jamaica. Williams is a project manager at the Twin Cities branch of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, which provide activities and support to children from kindergarten through high school…
The Mac Weekly caught up with Elissa Mallory ’07, an anthropology major from a small town in northeast Texas. Mallory currently teaches five-year-olds at Children’s Country Day School, a private, nature-based preschool in Mendota Heights. She makes a mean homemade salsa, she’s churned butter wearing Pioneer-era dresses and now she’s speaking to us about her…