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'Before Night Falls' explores both politics and poetry

Schnabel’s film tackles one of the most difficult genres in filmmaking-biography-and succeeds not only in telling the life story of gay dissident and writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) in alternately beautiful and grotesque episodes, but ultimately transforms the story of the writer’s struggle into a cutting

Letters to the editor

First, I say this: Student Editorial Board, what’s your deal? Are you guys mad at the world or something? Maybe you should spend your time and energy bashing a different cause that you don’t believe in, because in my reality the lip sync contest doesn’t make or

All-Stars in Action

Eight years later, Downes is still making music and playing the bass. In high school, Downes played in two bands: “We just started hanging out and playing for fun and it turned into something that I really enjoyed doing,” he said. At Amherst, Downes has played with Full Service and

Campus Conversation

It began like any other TAP: loud music, scantily-clad students and sketchy dancing. Then, we soon realized, it really was like any other TAP. Although SoCo held Raffle TAP this past Saturday, adding the ever-popular element of winning prizes to the same old TAP debauchery, the result was

This Week in Amherst History

The policy they were protesting forbade cohabitation in the dormitories; males were not allowed to take females into North and South. The demonstration was led by the Women in Dorms coalition and involved 23 women marching through North. One female participant described the demonstration as “very solemn,” and said that

Website of the Week

The site includes in-depth, song-by-song analysis of thousands of albums by every 60s and 70s band you’ve heard of and many more you haven’t. From Jefferson Airplane to Led Zeppelin, no acre of classic rock’s fertile territory is left unplowed. Starostin employs a strict

NSF Grant will help Goldsby continue research

“People are not aware that science is a very social activity [and that] labs are usually a very social environment,” he said. According to Goldsby, immunology, his area of research, is such a far-reaching subject because it spans molecular biology, cell biology, developmental biology and much more. “My feeling