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This year’s 2024 winter layering fashion guide

All you need to know on staying warm and stylish by your favorite New Englander
Eve Slemp, Arts & Entertainment Editor February 1, 2024

Amid all the blizzards, plummeting temperatures and extreme cases of cold fronts…oh wait … it’s 70 degrees out … regardless, I am here to present: your 2024 Winter Fashion Guide (from your favorite...

It’s called “Barbie,” not “Ken”

It’s called “Barbie,” not “Ken”

Ashwini Vivek, Opinion Columnist February 1, 2024

You cannot picture the summer of 2023 without thinking of “Barbie” and the stir it caused among moviegoers everywhere. Directed by Greta Gerwig, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and marketed...

Sophomore Olive Irons sets up anime paintings for TU Arts Festival

The Fall Art Market is bigger and better than ever

The first Autumn Festival of the Arts has made the annual Fall Art Market one of its biggest events
Lottie Correia, Arts Reporter November 9, 2023

Last Friday, the Trinity Art Collective (TAC) put on a Fall Art Market where student artists sold their wares to students, faculty and staff. This semester’s Fall Art Market was the biggest one yet,...

A new tradition: Trinity Autumn Festival of the Arts

A new tradition: Trinity Autumn Festival of the Arts

First TAFA highlights arts of various forms from Trinity students and alumni
Aubrey Jackson, Arts & Entertainment Reporter November 9, 2023

The first annual Trinity Autumn Festival of the Arts (TAFA) marks an effort to highlight art and creativity on campus this semester. Events of all sorts—stage productions, visual art exhibits, concerts,...

Female rage: A force to be reckoned with

Female rage: A force to be reckoned with

Women across media are elevating the portrayal of the range of female emotion
Rachel Oliver, Managing Editor November 2, 2023

Actresses like Mia Goth and Florence Pugh have recently been all the rage … female rage, that is. With movies like “X” and “Pearl,” “Don’t Worry Darling” and “Midsommar,” contemporary...

My most anticipated albums for the remainder of 2023

My most anticipated albums for the remainder of 2023

The year is far from over for hip-hop
Blake Bryan, Arts & Entertainment Reporter November 2, 2023

2023 has been an admirable year for rap music, especially in the more abstract and experimental realm of the genre. “Maps” by Billy Woods and Kenny Segal is probably my favorite release thus far, followed...

Domont debuts with the gripping and powerful “Fair Play”

Domont debuts with the gripping and powerful “Fair Play”

Chloe Domont delivers a fantastically written, directed and acted thriller about gender roles
Om Dighe, Arts & Entertainment Columnist November 2, 2023

“Fair Play” is a psychological thriller from writer/director Chloe Domont in her directorial debut. The film follows Emily and Luke, a recently engaged couple who keep their relationship hidden from...

Rocky Horror Show cast rehearsing.
Photo By Fredric Marmolejo

Consent and campiness: Reimagining “Rocky Horror”

Preserving integral themes in TUPS’ modern adaptation of a cult classic
Aubrey Jackson, Arts & Entertainment Reporter October 27, 2023

Trinity University Players (TUPS) joins thousands of casts nationwide in the tradition of reenacting the film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” this Friday and Saturday. Made in 1975, “Rocky Horror”...

Westside Gunn’s newest is a messy but worthy rap entry

Westside Gunn’s newest is a messy but worthy rap entry

The Buffalo MC’s “final” album serves as a respectable send-off to this chapter of his career
Blake Bryan, Arts & Entertainment Reporter October 27, 2023

Independent hip-hop label Griselda Records has held a major stake in the underground throughout the last decade. Known for raw street tales spat over simultaneously grimy and luxurious productions, Griselda’s...

Scorsese’s latest is nearly perfect despite runtime

Scorsese’s latest is nearly perfect despite runtime

Scorsese returns with a tragic depiction of a dark time in American history
Om Dighe, Arts & Entertainment Columnist October 27, 2023

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an epic Western crime drama from the legendary Martin Scorsese. Based on David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same name, the story follows a string of murders of the...

Stained glass windows in Parker Chapel

Ford, Dunn and the artists behind Parker Chapel

The creative efforts of these artists continue to make the chapel a campus icon
Lottie Correia, Arts Reporter October 27, 2023

Looking only at the facade of Margarite B. Parker Chapel, a visitor would not guess from the humble exterior what they would find inside. Walking into the chapel, there is a series of parabolic arches...

“The Fall of the House of Usher” takes Poe to another level

“The Fall of the House of Usher” takes Poe to another level

Mike Flanagan’s final Netflix series is unlike anything he’s done before
Om Dighe, Arts & Entertainment Columnist October 20, 2023

“The Fall of the House of Usher” is a gothic horror miniseries created and co-directed by horror maestro Mike Flanagan, his final show with Netflix due to the expiration of his contract with the company....