Arts & Living

Our first excursion into the countryside was a day trip to Vyborg, a medieval town a stone’s throw away from the Finnish border. The city’s strategic location on the Karelian Isthmus (oh, look at a map) has made it a point of contention between nations in the past,

Hitchcock combined her aesthetic talent with a love and knowledge of botany and created astonishingly detailed, accurate and beautiful renderings of hundreds of species of grasses, shrubs, flowers and fungi. She also depicted subjects from other branches of natural science including geology and paleontology (which her husband taught at the

Hired by a physician and his wife to baby-sit their children, Jill’s peaceful night is violently disturbed by a series of ominous prank calls. As Jill’s mysterious caller continues to harass�-at times asking, “Have you checked the children?”��Jill, shaken to her core by the experience, eventually

Overly-busy students who missed out on the Homecoming Weekend concerts need not despair, as both the Amherst College Choral Society and the Amherst College Symphony Orchestra will feature encore performances for the upcoming Family Weekend. The Choral Society’s concert will boast music by Morten Laurisdsen and Antonio Lotti, while

Sarah Schulman, co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, will give a talk entitled “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP.” The novelist, playwright and professor at the City University of New York is the latest in the Creative Writing Center’s series of literary speakers. After her