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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
Jul 1, 2022
Modern Music Guild Presents Jeff Carey and Sarah Davachi
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published April 22, 2022] Despite being one of the first music...
Jul 1, 2022
Kassa Overall plays at the 'Sco
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer photo by Daniel Sheehan [originally published April 22, 2022] Even before Kassa Overall and his all-star...
Jul 1, 2022
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “Art As Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change”
by Anna Holshouser-Belden Staff Writer LaToya Ruby Frazier's Momme, 2008 [originally published April 22, 2022] On Tuesday, March 29th...
Jun 30, 2022
Colin Farrell and the Mid-Career Balancing Act
by Fionna Farrell Staff Writer art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published March 25, 2022] We have the same last name, and we were born...
Jun 30, 2022
Catalytic Sound and the fight for musical self determination
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief Chicago composer and improviser Ken Vandermark [originally published March 25, 2022] A few weeks ago,...
Jun 30, 2022
Disco Deewane: On Biddu, Bappi, and Bollywood in the ’80s
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer Qurbani poster [originally published March 25, 2022] Last night, I watched Whit Stillman’s Last Days of Disco....
Jun 30, 2022
Interview: The Ever-Experimental Gabriel Baskin
by Saffron Forsberg Arts & Culture Editor art by Gabriel Baskin [originally published March 25, 2022] When I attended Gabriel Baskin’s...
May 4, 2022
TIMARA Faculty Recital review: Jessen x Stine
by Levi Dayan Editor-In-Chief image taken from Eli Stine's video "through a fragile traverse" [originally published February 2021] The...
May 4, 2022
Goddessmen and $quib at the 'Sco
by Anna Holshouser-Belden Staff writer art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published February 2022] After a long Winter Term/Omicron...
May 4, 2022
BabyTron — Megatron Review
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer [originally published February 2022] Despite the constant, half-hearted insistence that there’s a bright...
May 4, 2022
Review of Angel in Realtime by Gang of Youths
by Jonah Covell [originally published February 2022] To say Dave Le’Aupepe and indie rock quintet Gang of Youths have been through a lot...
May 4, 2022
Album Review: Hell on Church Street
by Wyatt Camery Features Editor art by Eva Sturm-Gross I have only recently become a Punch Brothers fan. This is in part due to my...
Apr 14, 2022
REVIVING THE “EVER-EVOLVING” STUDIO B
by Anna Holshouser-Belden (with help from Nico Moreta) Staff Writer [originally published November 2021] If there’s one student...
Apr 14, 2022
Eternals - Lifeless or Sentimental Work of MCU
by Ana Nguyen [originally published October 2021] At the Apollo, I purchased tickets for Eternals with little anticipation, after having...
Apr 14, 2022
My Favorite Albums of the Year
by Levi Dayan [originally published November 2021] In the past few years, and especially the past couple, opening any year-end...
Apr 14, 2022
Aaron Dilloway and Stephan Haluska Bring Deep Listening and Free Form Freakout to the Birenbaum
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Saffron Forsberg [originally published November 2021] This past Saturday saw Aaron Dilloway and...
Apr 12, 2022
10 Stand-Out Working Visual Artists of 2021
by Saffron Forsberg Arts + Culture Editor art by Keith Jackson [originally published November 2021] Before the prevailing self-indulgent...
Apr 12, 2022
19 Years After Their Last Studio Album & 40 Years After “Tainted Love,” Soft Cell Returns
by Teagan Hughes Staff Writer art by Michael Hastings [originally published November 2021] As a rule, you usually expect one-hit wonders...
Apr 12, 2022
“No Crying”: On Language, Wes Anderson, and the Unrelenting Humanity of The French Dispatch
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer art by Olive [originally published November 2021] Oftentimes—at least within peculiar circles of those who...
Apr 12, 2022
The Two Dunes, and Why I Choose the Beautiful Disaster
by Fionna Farrell Staff Writer art by Molly Chapin [originally published November 2021] Google Dune (2021) and Dune (1984) and you will...
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