Arts & Living

A new coffee shop, Shiru Café, has plans to open in Amherst’s already saturated coffee market. However, it has a unique draw: the coffee is free for students. Well, sort of … rather than paying with cash or card, students give Shiru personal information and with their new Shiru login,

This past Saturday, Oct. 27, the Black Student Union (BSU) held its annual Harlem Renaissance in Alumni Gym. The semi-formal event, which occurs every Family Weekend, is a place for black students and their families to come together and celebrate black culture and excellence through food and performances from Amherst

On the first verse of his first solo album, “Quavo Huncho,” Quavo raps, “write my name ’cross the hall of fame banner.” Although this project had been eagerly awaited by many of Quavo’s fans for some time, such an opening statement was quite bold for someone who had risen

On Friday, Oct. 26, the Women’s and Gender Center (WGC), in collaboration with the Mead Art Museum, hosted a day of art and activism with Megan Smith. Smith created the now-iconic bird image in 2011 for the 40th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, a relatively unknown piece of legislation

For the past two months, Amherst Cinema has been holding screenings of the works of Agnes Varda, a French filmmaker whose movies were released in the mid-20th century. Varda made inimitable contributions to the amorphous category of films we nowadays label “arthouse cinema,” and with the final screening of “Beaches

At the pre-show reception for the Amherst College Choral Society’s Family Weekend Concert, you could already get a feel for the event and hear students warming up backstage. After some brief socialization, families and other audience quickly funneled into the recital hall, filling most of the seats. The choir