Samantha O'Brien '18

The Student had the opportunity to talk to Naima Moore ’18, the editor in chief of the new campus music publication, AC Beat. Q: Where did you get the inspiration for AC Beat?A: The inspiration to create AC Beat came from a desire to acknowledge Amherst College students’ (and

It is 1952 and young Eilis Lacey (Saiorse Ronan) is tired of her small Irish hometown. Her sole income comes from her part-time job as a shop worker under the insufferable Mrs. Kelly, and dating prospects are limited. Life, as she imagines it, exists elsewhere for her, so with a

By sheer chance, my sister, my mother and I stumbled into the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton last Sunday night for a concert by the Becca Stevens Band. A quick Google search informed me that the “Becca Stevens band expands and blurs the boundaries of folk, jazz and pop

For many of us, childhood is a time of innocent detachment from the woes of adult life. For children, anything is possible; the world feels like a magical place even on the dullest days. But that doesn’t mean that childhood is free from darkness. As Stephen King puts it