The Blue Mouse Theatre on Proctor hosted an informal music festival on April 11 of three talented musical groups, each of whom showed off their unique styles through a variety of musical genres and pieces. The first act, What She Said, introduced themselves as Puget Sound’s “only all-women a cappella group.” What She Said’s first piece was a cover of Alicia Keys’s “Fallin’,” arranged by Stephanie Gates, in which the deep, soulful voice of soloist Jennifer Kullby balanced nicely with the lighter background singers and the rhythm vocalists. Following this,...

The world has begun to calm down after the events of 2012’s The Avengers and Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) will finally have a chance to explore the brave new world of the 21st century, after having been frozen in ice since the end of the Second World War. In theory. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Rogers is instead embroiled in a net of political intrigue and espionage that quickly takes a deadly turn. Unsure who to trust within the government organization S.H.I.E.L.D., he must rely on super-spy Black...

Genesis 6:9—“This is the account of Noah and his family.” As a summary, these words describe director Darren Aronofsky’s film Noah even better, perhaps, than the Genesis story itself. Noah is constantly and intimately concerned with the relationships between Noah (Russell Crowe), his wife Naameh (portrayed masterfully by Jennifer Connelly), their three sons Shem (Douglas Booth), Ham (Logan Lerman), and Japheth (Leo McHugh Carroll), and their adopted daughter Ila (Emma Watson). Over the course of the film, this family unit—as well as Noah’s place in the ancestral chain of his...

Last semester, Collins Memorial Library played host to a traveling collection of books, book-art and visual art broadsheets made in response to the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, a literary and cultural center in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007. Now, two days after the anniversary of the bombing on March 5, Collins again held an event to talk about the project, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, with an event entitled Gather Round the Press. “This week, events are going on all around the world to commemorate the bombing,” to “honor the lives of...

As students at a liberal arts university, it can be very easy to see our professors’ lives and academic careers as entirely centered on teaching students. These same professors are prolific writers, editors and poets. The work they produce is read and enjoyed far beyond the walls of their classrooms at the University of Puget Sound. “Faculty publish books on a wide range of topics. Some are very specific to their field of study, some write fiction or poetry. Some titles are traditional textbooks and are used in classes here...

By KATHRYN STUTZ   Last weekend’s Adelphian and Voci d’Amici masterpiece, A Winter’s Hope, showed off the vocal talents of the Puget Sound students involved, and served as a sort of Christian-flavored multi-faith holiday worship service for the greater Puget Sound community. The Saturday night performance, with the backdrop of Kilworth chapel’s gold-gilt pipe organ and the tall rain-streaked windows showing the lamp-lit grounds outside, felt heavily Victorian—a glimpse into the way songs could hold a community together in a very different time. The candlelit chandeliers and glowing Christmas tree...

By KATHRYN STUTZ   The final project of the students in Professor Jess Smith’s Directing Class, the One Acts Festival—beginning on Dec. 9—includes 15 different shows by 15 different directors. All of the plays, whether short dramas, monologues or scenes from larger works, will be spread out over the course of the three days. There will be five productions each night, creating an exciting and concentrated theatrical event in under an hour—no intermissions. “Half the class has been about learning: styles of visual storytelling, and figuring out how to block...