When Israeli-born singer-songwriter-activist Shahar Eberzon graduated from Macalester in 2012, she knew that she wanted three things. “I wanted to keep working on social activism, primarily the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Eberzon said. “I knew that I wanted to make music. I knew that I wanted to use my work and my music for the betterment of…
Every week, The Mac Weekly interviews one senior majoring in an artistic field at Macalester. This week, we spoke with Alana Horton, a theater major. Where are you originally from? Northampton, Massachusetts. Do you have any other majors besides Theater? I am an English Literature major as well. In what other ways are you involved…
Sometimes things are off; they’re not entirely explainable; they’re eerie, or uncanny. In 1964, Jim Templeton was out with his daughter and captured the image of what appeared to be a man in a white suit just over her head. Many people now know the photograph as the Solway Firth Spaceman. In 1997, multiple people…
Every week, The Mac Weekly interviews one senior majoring in an artistic field at Macalester. This week, we spoke with Maya Aguayo Schmidt-Feng, an Art History major. Where are you originally from? Berkeley, California. Do you major/minor in anything else besides Art History? I have a Critical Theory concentration. What does that mean you focus…
Uncle Vanya is a classic play by Anton Chekov that puts the tragedy of the banal front and center. The version being staged at the Guthrie is a newer adaption written by Brian Friel and the Wurtle Thrust stage offers great views from any seat in the house. I saw Uncle Vanya on Sept. 17th,…
Word on the Street is an experimental band made up of eight Macalester students: Charlie Stanton ’15, Geoff Willis ’15, Perry Campbell ’15, Sherif Tawfik ’14, Isaac Mathison-Bowie ’15, Sam Faulkner ’15, Rob Granfelt ’15, and Maya Vilaplana ’14. The band formed in February 2012 and, shortly after, won Battle of the Bands for the…
If you have a Facebook account, you probably saw links to the Buzzfeed article “A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant.” If you haven’t seen it, the article is a compilation of racist tweets, lamenting that an “Arab” won Miss America so soon after 9/11. These…
Mark Mazullo, a music professor at Macalester specializing in piano, has presumably been to a lot concerts. So it’s high praise when he calls the last time he saw Imogen Cooper perform “far-and-away the best one I’ve ever heard.” “She is a magician!” he wrote in an email from his sabbatical in Berlin. The magic…
A night at First Avenue usually consists of strobes, a steady bass that stays in your ears for a few days and maybe a few hundred gallons of foam. It’s not the kind of place you’d expect to see Sam Beam, who goes by the stage name Iron & Wine. Beam, a contemporary folk singer…
It has taken me a long time to embark on writing this review of “Strombolli’s Medicine Show” as performed this weekend at In the Heart of the Beast Mask and Puppet Theater in Minneapolis. I can’t tell if it is general procrastination, not knowing exactly what to write about, or the sinking suspicion that maybe…
