Arts & Living

On Thursday, Oct. 18, Amherst presented “An Evening of Arabic Music and Literature” in Cole Assembly Room — the first iteration of an event which the school hopes to make an annual tradition. The evening brought a little bit of the Middle East to Western Massachusetts, with the moving music of

Last week, the Peer Advocates for Sexual Respect hosted the Five College Clothesline Project on Valentine Quad. Hundreds of shirts, each created by an individual affected by sexual violence, were hung on clotheslines throughout the quad. On Wednesday, Oct. 17, people of all identities and backgrounds were invited to contribute

When I sat down in the theater to watch “Venom,” I fully expected to hate it. I resented (and still do resent) Sony’s attempt to launch its own Spider-Man spinoff movie without actually connecting it to Spider-Man himself. The trailers and marketing of “Venom” had left a

The decision to remake “A Star Is Born” was, frankly, questionable. Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut starring Lady Gaga and Cooper himself was a fourth take on the story after previous iterations in 1937, 1954 and 1976. The choice falls squarely in line with the recent Hollywood trend of cashing

In this age of Tinder, political taboos and quarter-life crises, young adult romances are complicated. Director and writer Eugene Kotlyarenko attempts to dissect these trying times in his latest feature-film “Wobble Palace.” Drawing upon his own experience in a failing open relationship during the 2016 presidential election, he