Miss the Oscars and want to discuss it with your friends? This article will give you a basic rundown of what happened, what films won what awards, and which movies and shorts you should watch next.
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Maple Buescher, Managing Arts & Leisure Editor
• March 22, 2023
Near the end of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” on the Bates College stage, during a particularly tense argument about a young girl’s honor, a man rounds on a woman protesting her child’s...
I didn’t know what (or who) was coming upon entering Gomes Chapel for the annual Sex Week a cappella concert on Friday March 17, but unlike most women, I did not leave disappointed.
Traditionally,...
Max Olson, Contributing Writer
• February 15, 2023
Sitting down in Gannett Theater on Monday night, I was eager to have my heart warmed in this (especially) cold climate. I had seen Almost, Maine plenty of times before since it is a frequent production...
When my friend told me that there was going to be a guest chef visiting Bates, my ears immediately perked up. As I exited Commons with them, I was greeted by a sign and subsequently, enthusiastically marked...
Commons. The place where we all spend many hours of our day. Maybe at one point, 24! It has only been one semester, and yet hundreds of hours of my life have passed there. I learned a lot even after only...
Maple Buescher, Managing Arts & Leisure Editor
• January 18, 2023
I’m going to be honest with you: I have shown up to a lot of events at Schaeffer Theater without having signed up for a ticket online, and I have never been challenged about this. The house managers...
Leah Belber, Contributing Writer
• December 15, 2022
The Harvy Din. Hyped up. Regaled as the best night of the Bates fall. I was instructed to film content for the Bates TikTok as well as write this review so I knew it must be big. As the hours of that Wednesday...
Maple Buescher, Managing Arts & Leisure Editor
• December 15, 2022
Since September, I have had the honor and joy of profiling arts students as part of the “My Favorite Things” series. With laughter and poignancy, we discussed everything from how to adjust a reflecting...
Sunday, the 13th of November brought with it cloudy skies, drizzles of rain and a gray overcast that seemed to lazily swallow the campus whole.
To my distaste, it was the epitome of a gloomy Sunday.
However,...
Maple Buescher, Managing Arts & Leisure Editor
• November 15, 2022
There are many things that Jade Emerald Pinto ’25 (she/they) could be proud of when she looks back at her year and a half so far at Bates. There are the two clubs she’s founded, for instance, or the...
Anna Hogeland ‘11, paints a unique and diverse portrait of motherhood in her novel The Long Answer. Hogeland tells the story through the eyes of a pregnant Anna, who parallels the author’s life experiences,...
