Behind bars, self-expression becomes a luxury. While making art can serve as a means of rehabilitation, allow for emotional release, and act as an empowering force for incarcerated individuals, the prison system all too often denies inmates the right to create. “Beyond Bars: Art from Inside”—an art show on the 10th floor of the Smith […]
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is now running at the Loeb Experimental Theater from Feb. 29 to March 8. With music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Rachel Sheinkin, Spelling Bee is a musical comedy about a group of six middle school students competing in, you guessed it, a spelling bee. […]
We are sitting near Quincy Grille. Allure Akaeze ’24 wears a raunchy cheetah-print bodysuit, colored neon pink and blue, with midriff and side cutouts. “I like showing skin, y’all,” they laugh. “It’s sexy. I like it. It makes me feel good about myself.” As a multidisciplinary artist, Allure embodies counterculture and eroticism. They are a […]
Last Thursday, the Harvard College Events Board hosted the annual “Battle for Yardfest.” According to the Dean of Students Office website, Yardfest, a Harvard College tradition, is “a giant cookout and festival-style concert. The two winning student bands from Battle for Yardfest…are granted an amazing opportunity to open for the exciting professional headliner.” This year’s […]
Puerto Rico, Spain, Portugal, and the Caribbean. Be prepared to swipe past a sunset photo from each of these destinations on Instagram every day this week. But if you are sitting at home this Sunday night and need a good distraction from the constant reminders of your friends’ sunny vacations, look no further than the […]
In an inconspicuous building on 32 Quincy Street lies the University’s hidden gem: the Harvard Art Museums. Simply walking into the building is an enchanting experience—the courtyard itself is a work of art. But walking through the museum is an enriching engagement with some of the most important artists and works of art history canon. […]
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, incidents, emotions, thematic revelations, etc. are products of the author’s imagination (that she will hopefully one day sell and capitalize upon). Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. (By purely we mean truly, thoroughly, nearing 100%, downright asymptotic!) […]
If you are interested in more of Picasso’s prolific style, don’t bother taking the T to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). Instead, just walk a block or so and up a few flights of stairs to the Harvard Art Museums’ third floor, where you can find a new exhibit dedicated entirely to Picasso. This […]
Grape pizza and blueberry glazed pork may not be up your alley. Fortunately, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) hasn’t tried to ruin one food with a creative twist: the fan-favorite breakfast sausage. Although not every dining hall on campus has hot breakfast, every student has gotten the opportunity to experience Harvard sausage in one way […]
At some point in my girlhood, undefined, I drew in a broad breath which I never released. So long I’ve been the lone moon of a solar system forsaken. Acne — pockmarked like a seagull scooped out the pulp of my face, cratered like a sallow gray planet marinating in a toxic atmosphere of discontent. […]