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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.


Feb 20, 2022
Is Genre Obsolete?
by Levi Dayan [originally published fall 2020] It’s hard to tell when music was first categorized, but it would be fair to assume that as...

Feb 16, 2022
An Interview with Live From Studio B
[originally posted fall 2020] Would you two introduce yourselves? Oli Bentley: I’m Oli (she/her/hers), I’m a 4th year Timara major, and...

Feb 16, 2022
In the Craft Corner: Wompy Knits
[originally posted fall 2020] Welcome to In the Craft Corner, a column where we get to know the brilliant artists and craftspeople of the...

Feb 16, 2022
East Atlanta Rapper Young Nudy Releases Mixtape Anyways
by Jason Hewitt [originally published spring 2020] 2020 has been a solid year for rap music so far, and East Atlanta rapper Young Nudy is...

Feb 16, 2022
Jazz Forum Review
by Damani Malcolm [originally published spring 2020] Last Friday, I settled into a seat at the Cat in the Cream to watch some of my...


Feb 15, 2022
The Rise of Griselda Records
by Jason Hewitt [originally published Spring 2020] When most people think of cities that run hip-hop, places such as Atlanta, Los...


Feb 15, 2022
Kaina Opens the Spring Semester at the Cat in the Cream
by Serena Zets [originally published spring 2020] On Saturday, February 8th, the Cat in the Cream kicked off its spring semester of...

Feb 15, 2022
New Green Day Album Plays It Safe On Two Fronts
by Fiona Farrell [originally published Spring 2020] The implacable pop-punk sellout act known as Green Day released their thirteenth...


Feb 12, 2022
Interview with Sasami
by Wiley Smith [originally published 12/6/19] Two weeks ago, ethereal synth and melancholy guitar reverberated through the Cat in the...


Feb 12, 2022
The Story and Impact Behind Eli Valley’s Unseemly Art
by Fiona Farrell [originally published 12/6/2019] Remove all of the words, urgency, and political regalia from his comics and you might...


Feb 11, 2022
Learning from depression with Bruce Springsteen
by Levi Dayan [originally published 11/15/19] Life is good when you’re the boss. That’s certainly a reasonable takeaway from glancing at...


Feb 10, 2022
A Peek into Omid Shekari’s "Of Aggression and Domination"
By Molly Bryson [originally published 11/15/19] Omid Shekari is a haunted artist. His work, which deals primarily with the effects of...


Feb 10, 2022
Suzi Analogue Talks Inspiration and Collaboration
Interview By: Damani McNeil and Amari Newman Article By: Damani McNeil [originally published 11/15/19] In October, Amari Newman of...


Feb 10, 2022
"Jesus is King" album review
by Jason Hewitt [originally published 11/15/19] *Long, deep sigh…* I miss the old Kanye. He’s certainly been on a different and more...


Feb 9, 2022
10 Questions with Marisa Dabice, lead singer of Mannequin Pussy
By PJ McCormick [originally published 10/11/19] Two weeks ago, Mannequin Pussy tore Oberlin up for the second time in as many years, this...

Feb 9, 2022
Slow Train Storytellers: An Intergenerational Exercise in Small Town Sincerity
by Saffron Forsberg [originally published 10/11/19] The first Moth Story Slam took place in a Georgia living room in 1997. It was a night...


Feb 9, 2022
These Days…Oberlin is more that just its stereotype
by Molly Bryson [originally published 9/19/2019] The Christmas before I left for college, my uncle Rob, a music aficionado, gifted me the...


Feb 8, 2022
Oberlin_in_the_00s and The Art of Normalcy
By Saffron Forsberg On some placid afternoon in the early-to-mid-aughts, someone took a photograph in Stevie. There are round Stevie...

Feb 7, 2022
“Show Houses” and the Self-Made Scene: An Interview with Will Curry and Henry Nelson of Probable Vol
By Teagan Hughes Will Curry and Henry Nelson have just come from a music video shoot for Oberlin singer-songwriter Claudia Hinsdale when...


Feb 7, 2022
Reviving the “Ever-Evolving” Studio B
By Anna Holshouser-Belden If there’s one student organization that reaches every nook and cranny of Oberlin’s campus culture, it’s WOBC,...
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