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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
Apr 11, 2022
Galen Tipton Talks Pop Accessibility, Accidental Virality, and Collaborative Magic
by Saffron Forsberg Arts + Culture Editor [originally published October 2021] Galen Tipton makes pop music—well, sort of. Her music is...
Apr 11, 2022
The NBA Turns 75
by Wyatt Camery Features Editor [originally published October 2021] Since this year marks the 75th NBA Season, we here at the Grape...
Apr 11, 2022
Lana Del Ray: Blue Bannisters Review
by Emma Kang Staff Writer [originally published October 2021] Lana Del Rey is excellent at wallowing. She’s good at capturing a wrong...
Apr 10, 2022
The Nostalgia Crisis: Why the business of the past is killing the art of the future
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief Sun Ra, still from the 1980 Robert Mugge documentary A Joyful Noise [originally published October 2021] One...
Apr 10, 2022
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: A Biblical Disappointment
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published October 2021] Warning: contains descriptions of sexual assault...
Apr 9, 2022
Crocs, Prairie Dresses, and "Wife-Pleasers": What are Obies Wearing This Summer?
by Daisy Vollen [originally published August 2021] As the summer semester comes to an end, we are reflecting on campus culture over the...
Apr 9, 2022
Picks from the WOBC Vault with (½ of) Journey Beyond the Khatru
By Teagan Hughes Staff Writer [originally published August 2021] On August 6th, I met Tempest Baum in the WOBC vault and asked them to...
Apr 8, 2022
Movie Review: The Forever Purge
by Priya, Julia, and Nico [originally published July 2021] Released on July 2, 2021, The Forever Purge is the most recent installment in...
Apr 8, 2022
Childhood and Memory in the Age of YouTube
by Teagan Hughes Staff Writer [originally published July 2021] When I was in elementary school, I made sketches and music videos with my...
Apr 8, 2022
The Role of Jazz in Present-Day Spiritual Trends
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Priya Banerjee [originally published July 2021] America is at a spiritual crossroads, in multiple...
Apr 8, 2022
Space Jam: A New Legacy Review
by Kira Mesch art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published July 2021] If Space Jam: A New Legacy had come out about 10 years earlier, I...
Apr 8, 2022
Float and Crash: An Hour with Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez
by Saffron Forsberg Arts + Culture Editor art by Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez [originally published Summer 2021] Joaquim and I finally...
Mar 3, 2022
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra Come Together on a Collaboration
by Levi Dayan [originally posted April 2021] Some time ago I came across a copy of Elaenia, the debut album by Floating Points, at a...
Mar 1, 2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG PARADE! WE LOVE YOU!
By Priya Banerjee Originally published June 2021 In the last issue of the Grape, I talked to Laura Dahle, the de facto leader and only...
Feb 21, 2022
Milford Graves, Chick Corea, and the Myth That the Good Have to Die Young
by Levi Dayan [originally posted February 2021] February was a particularly gruelling time for the jazz community. Nine days into the...
Feb 20, 2022
The Country Music Industry’s Morgan Wallen Problem
by Levi Dayan [originally posted early 2021] It already feels like a million years ago, but prior to Phoebe Bridgers guitar-gate and the...
Feb 20, 2022
Artist Profile: Eva S-G
[art by Eva Sturm-Gross, originally posted early 2021] Eva Sturm-Gross (she/they) is a third year Studio Art major at Oberlin College,...
Feb 20, 2022
Ten “Stacy’s Mom” Covers, Ranked
by Teagan Hughes [originally posted December 2020] Since its original release in 2003, Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom” has become a...
Feb 20, 2022
Everything is improvisation
by Levi Dayan [left to right: sun ra, jerry garcia, mary halvorson, nicole mitchell; originally posted December 2020] I first came up...
Feb 20, 2022
The Streaming Industry’s Existential Threat to Independent Music
by Levi Dayan [originally posted fall 2020] Imagining a post-COVID future to me is as utterly stupefying as imaging the nightclubbing and...
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