2008 Woodie Awards
Arts Articles
Fashion Victims: A Deadly Drive to Be Thin
"Even after all of the positive thinking and all the heartfelt praying, [Camilla] just couldn't escape her own worst enemy---herself. She died March of 1998 after struggling over 20 years with Anorexia. She was so good at giving all the other girls, including myself, affirmations on how beautiful we were and how courageously we were all facing our own eating disorders, but for her own life.
Student Band Jazzes up Chase Hall
Last Wednesday night in Chase Hall lounge, the Bates College Jazz Band presented their winter semester concert which was full of Batesie class, funk and downright good jazz sounds. For roughly an hour, the performance featured the talents of various soloists and the fullest Bates jazz ensemble director Thomas Snow has ever conducted.
This Week in Twee
Great Galloping indie-pop. About two weeks ago, WRBC started recieving some insanely cheery twee, and I'm officially proclaiming it National Indie-Pop Week in my room. So leave your hyper-masculinity at the door, put on some headphones, and admit that you think that Mates of State are a great band.
All They Want To Do is (Modern) Dance
The Bates Modern Dance Company showcased a semester's worth of work this weekend in two performance sets; "Performance A" featured novice choreographers and films from the "Dance Composition" and "Atelier" classes on Friday and Sunday, while students in the advanced composition seminar presented dance pieces Saturday and Monday.
The State of the Arts Address
As this is a liberal arts school, and as McNulty's pages and my own maintain a tense, ongoing border dispute, I thought that I'd borrow from the great one, Peter Gammons, and attempt to empty out all my arts-related thoughts, predictions for the future and give the different media their different dues: Film: Projects by seniors Adam Macbeth, Mario Furloni, Laura Tomaselli and Marcia Reinauer have demonstrated artistic vision, able control and a degree of professionalism I never expected to encounter while in a college without a "legitimate" film program.
The Magnificient 7 Reveal Their Art in Olin
This past Friday evening at the Bates Museum, Lindsay Allsop, Brooke Anable, Emily Fisken, Yi Xing Hwa, Sarah Judice, Molly Stoddard and Annie Wachnicki joined friends, family and faculty for the opening of the Senior Art Exhibit. The evening began at six o'clock with a short introduction by the students' thesis advisor, Pamela Johnson, who praised her advisees not only for their ambition but also for the "support and kindness [they] showed each other" throughout the process.
Ice Age 2: Love, Laughs and Lots of Water
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown succeeds in every way that the original failed, and is sure to be a delight to fans both old and new to the series. The animation hasn't improved much since the original film, but the story, characters and jokes have been stepped up a notch in this sequel.