Downtown Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater is considered one of the most prestigious theaters in the Twin Cities, and its current production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet does not disappoint. The director, Joseph Haj, known for his production of King Lear this past spring, presents the world-famous love story through a mixture of traditional and modern…
This week The Mac Weekly sat down with the five WMCN senior staff members. Catie Bell, Yafiet Bezabih, Theo Jacobson, Daniel Shinbaum and Noah Stieglitz come from a variety of backgrounds, but can all agree on the value of community radio. The Mac Weekly: I just want to say, that right before we did this…
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misspelled Aarohi Narain’s last name. We apologize for the mistake. For this week’s File I caught up with Aarohi Narain, a senior International Studies and Japanese double major with a minor in English. Narain is from New Delhi, India and spent her junior year, spring semester studying at…
A Brief History of Seven Killings, the Man-Booker-Prize-winning novel by Macalester ’s author-in-residence and Associate Professor of English Marlon James, is coming to Amazon in the form of an original TV series. The story, set in Jamaica, follows the eight people who attempted to murder Bob Marley in 1976. “They vanished and nobody in Jamaica…
On Wednesday, Oct. 4, members of the Macalester women’s soccer team knelt in protest during the playing of the national anthem. The team collectively wrote a statement, which The Mac Weekly has decided to publish in full. Several members of the Macalester Women’s Soccer team have recently decided to join athletes across the country in…
Just over a month away from the election of St. Paul’s fifty-fourth mayor, seven of the candidates for the position came to Macalester’s John B. Davis Lecture Hall (JBD) on the night of Tuesday, Oct. 3 for the college’s second mayoral forum of the year. The leading contenders – Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party members Melvin…
After 61 years of serving burgers, malts, fries, and more to the Macalester community and Macalester-Groveland neighborhood, the St. Clair Broiler will be closing its doors on Saturday, Sept. 30. The St. Clair Broiler – known as “The Broiler” – became one of the first in the Twin Cities to serve charbroiled hamburgers in 1956,…
This week The Mac Weekly sat down with seniors Saakshi Daswani ’18 and Suveer Daswani ’18 to talk about their experience as housemates, best friends, and twins at Mac. On campus, Suveer serves as MCSG President and Saakshi is the Academic Affairs Committee Chair. While they do a lot together, they follow very different tracks…
by Ben Lewis One month into the season, the Macalester men’s soccer team is already back to climbing the national rankings, and is sitting at the top of the North regional rankings. This is all part of the plan, according to senior forward Danny Baumann ’18. “The goals for the season are to win a…
Created by artists Salome Asega and Ayodamola Okunseinde, the Iyapo Repository is a collection of art pieces meant to affirm and explore the experiences of people of African descent. The repository imagines a future in which representation is forward-thinking, innovative and inclusive. That future is collaborative by nature. Thus, the gallery itself is collaborative, drawing…