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Ariel Kay


Articles

Trisk's Drag Show celebrates sexuality

I had never been to a drag show before I walked into the Levin Ballroom on May 1. I knew little of what to expect other than what I'd gathered from movies and about one and a half episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race.


Depp and Burton debut creepy, campy remake

Johnny Depp has long fostered the identity of the bizarre outsider. Often, it seems as though he purposefully picks the most caricature-like, cartoonish roles he can find, looking to escape anything with a traditional leading man.


Pop Culture

Reality show singing competitions may have originated back in the late '90s (anyone else remember Say What?


Family drama 'Next to Normal' rocks Schwartz

Free Play Theater Cooperative's rock musical Next to Normal, which ran this past weekend in Schwartz Hall, examines the life of a suburban family fighting against matriarch Diana's (Abigail Clarke '12, who was also the production's vocal director) chronic mental illness. Diana is bipolar (though at one point she explains, "Bipolar doesn't quite cover it.") and experiences bursts of manic energy, though she tends to feel anxious and depressed most of the time.


Nite Jewel rounds out 2012 SpringFest lineup

Student Events and WBRS finally announced the fourth act performing at SpringFest shortly after students returned from Passover and spring recess. Low-fi singer-songwriter Ramona Gonzalez, a.k.a Nite Jewel, a Los Angeles-based artist who released her first album, Good Evening, in 2008, will be joining headliner Childish Gambino and openers fun.


Play sheds light on early use of vibrator

Scientists are not entirely sure of the evolutionary purpose of the female orgasm. It may be a physical fluke, created because all fetuses start with the same building blocks, regardless of gender, and therefore men and women end up with some of the same bodily abilities.


Artwork inspires modern dance

Rachel Klein '12 was inspired by feminist artist Kiki Smith's "Lucy's Daughters," to create an interactive dance piece for the upcoming Festival of the Arts.


Students go behind the camera for BFC

You walk into a darkened theater populated by an audience grouped in twos and threes. On the screen, images twist about, a combination of avant-garde film techniques and accidentally unfocused camerawork. You're at Indie Louies' third annual film festival, hosted by the Brandeis Film Collective.


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