The Bowdoin Orient
Volume CXXXIX, Number 24
May 7, 2010
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Student art decorates campus, downtown with final shows
By HANNAH HOYT, STAFF WRITERThroughout the semester students have spent hours in the Visual Arts Center, on the third floor of McLellan, at Fort Andross and in the Mid-Coast communities working on projects with Bowdoin's visual arts department.
Bowdoin groups, musicians bring year to a harmonious close
By ANDY BERNARD, STAFF WRITERThe end of the academic year always brings with it a barrage of performance in the arts—both visual and performing—and the musical concerts this year promise to be particularly memorable.
Italian students bring Renaissance Italy to stage
By LINDA KINSTLER, ORIENT STAFFThe aroma of cloves and bitter orange will waft over the audience in Kresge Auditorium this Friday with the advanced Italian students' production of Niccolò Machiavelli's ""La Mandragola"." The play, titled "The Mandrake Root" in English—a product of the semester-long efforts of Associate Professor of Italian Arielle Saiber's Italian Renaissance Theater class—is regarded as one of the most influential productions of Italian Renaissance theater.
‘Exhibition’ puts bodies, comfort, sexuality in spotlight
By DAISY ALIOTO,A bare arm, a tangle of legs, a shadowy silhouette: all will be on display tonight at the fourth annual Naked Art Show.
Film festival to celebrate student films, announce winners
By QUINN COHANE, STAFF WRITERMost Bowdoin students love watching films, but there are also those Bowdoin students who love to make films. Next Saturday, The Bowdoin Film Society will host the annual Student Film Festival, where the Bowdoin community will have the opportunity to watch a series of student-made films.
Student comedians to bring big laughs
By MELODY HAHM, ORIENT STAFFAn ensemble of four student comedians and one student MC will entertain, amuse, and start a comedy movement at Bowdoin tonight with Comedy Night 2010.
ArtSmart: Student dance groups, classes perform outside
By RACHEL GOLDMAN, ORIENT STAFFStudents are used to enjoying the sun while relaxing out on the Quad. This afternoon, however, they will also have the opportunity to watch an array of outdoor dance performances. Today during Common Hour, several campus dance groups and the modern dance classes come together to perform "Museum Pieces" on the steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
ArtSmart: Seminar’s book maps out memory on campus
By CAITLIN BEACH, ORIENT STAFFEver wanted to know how the Polar Bear statue came to be, or why there are so many sets of memorial gateways on the Bowdoin campus?
Sobering Words: Panel celebrates college finale, reviews one last round
By ERIC ADROLINO AND WILL GRUNEWALD, COLUMNISTS"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper." Quotations make for easy leads. Guilty. We've certainly used them in past articles. This time, we don't really even know what that T. S. Eliot stuff is about. Don't care. But we do know we don't want our column to go out with a whimper.
My Aim is True: A Music Column: Enjoy warmth with best summer albums
By TYLER PATTON, COLUMNISTThis time of year is always so tough at Bowdoin. Ivies Weekend is officially behind us, finals are around the corner, and the weather keeps getting nicer and nicer, which is not conducive to studying in the least.