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Rock, pop, metal, punk — and more — were on full display last week, courtesy of student bands from Hopkins and the Peabody Institute. Harnessing the power of live music to raise money, two fraternities threw a Battle of the Bands event and donated the proceeds to charity.
In a time when the leaders of 2010s SoundCloud trap find it hard to maintain consistency and relevance, SahBabii remains something of an outlier. While Lil Uzi Vert releases cash grab sequels and Trippie Redd sinks to KSI’s level, others have adapted for greater mainstream appeal. Post Malone — as expected — has fully embraced the highly lucrative white country audience, while Playboi Carti has cultivated an even more hyper-exclusive, fashion-forward persona.
The Peabody Concert Orchestra (PCO) displayed an exceptional performance on Saturday, Nov. 9 in the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. The excitement in the packed hall could be felt, especially as Dean of the Peabody Institute Fred Bronstein dedicated the opening of the annual PCO in memory of Steven Muller — former president of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital — who passed away in 2013. The program notes describes him as — “a visionary leader who reshaped and reinvigorated JHU during his long tenure as president.”
Bryson Tiller: a name synonymous with R&B, known for his hits such as “Don’t,” “Exchange” and “Whatever She Wants.” Tiller has nearly 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify, three Grammy Award nominations, multiple Billboard Music Award wins; and for only $15, any Hopkins student could see him up close during a campus concert on Nov. 9 hosted by Student Affairs.
Do you feel winter on its way yet? The Arts & Entertainment section is here with another list of media to make your next week a little more colorful. If you’re looking for visual entertainment, we’ve got you covered with our film picks in the “To watch” section. If you’re on the hunt for exciting new reads, look no further than the books we’ve included below. For listening material, please turn to our selection of album releases to listen to, and for live events stick around till the very end.
If you could have everything you could ever dream of, you would probably grasp tightly onto that new reality. In Sean Baker’s Anora, a sex worker who goes by Ani becomes roped into a life of extravagance and grandeur after impulsively marrying the son of a Russian oligarch.
On Monday, Oct. 8, my First Year Seminar — Writing with Pictures: An Introduction to Writing Picture Books and Graphic Novels — welcomed Elizabeth Lilly as a guest speaker. Lilly is a Baltimore local — a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Towson University — and both an illustrator and writer.
Sharp angles. Bare sides. Flat features. Only lines.
Hello everyone and welcome back to our “To watch and watch for” series, where the Arts & Entertainment section compiles a list of all the upcoming films, TV shows, books, albums and live events happening on campus, in the wider Baltimore area and beyond. I’m excited for this new format we started, because it means I get to share even more new releases. This week was extremely hefty in the musical department, with plenty of big names like Jon Batiste, Gwen Stefani and Mary J. Blige, and the list of live events continues to grow as we get further into the semester.
You loved it in the beginning, but the older it got the messier it got, and you started feeling mad more than anything else, especially when you kept finding pee on the carpet, and in the very end, it died a rapid, out-of-left-field death caused by rabies: violent and hard to watch but harder to stop watching, and once it was over you wished none of it — the dog, the death — ever happened in the first place.
Hello and welcome! It’s time for another week of new media. Whether you’re on the lookout for inspiration, entertainment or both, the Arts & Entertainment section is here with our list of fresh recommendations. This time, we are trying out a different format in order to list more exciting media in each section. I will be summarizing a few of the releases listed below, but if you would like to learn more about any of our picks, simply click on the link we’ve attached to each title.
A new take on the love story ended prematurely by illness, We Live in Time gives us a realistic and bittersweet view of what it means to love without regrets. Its genuine interactions and nonlinear plot create a relationship that’s beautiful because of the characters’ efforts toward each other, rather than their tragic premise.
In recent years, there has been an almost perverse public obsession with Donald Trump — 45th president of the United States, convicted criminal and renowned business tycoon. Ali Abbasi’s latest film, The Apprentice, explores the latter of Trump’s identities. Starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, the film follows how Trump launched his career as a real estate businessman in New York City into a massive story of financial success. Particularly, it traces how he gained that success through his relationship with another figure of great controversy, Roy Cohn.
On Oct. 1, the University’s very own alumna Louise Erdrich published her latest novel The Mighty Red, an idiosyncratic story following the teenage, gothic intellectual Kismet Poe. Throughout the narrative, Poe survives her tragic newlywed life in her small, sugar-beet-farming town in North Dakota, backdropped by the 2008 financial crisis.
My mother always hated her gray hair. I’d watch as she separated her white strands from the rest of her dark brown hair, gathering them in her fingers as if to count them. I’d catch her glancing in the mirror at her hair, or avoiding wearing gray clothing because she thought it accentuated the color.
The rollout for Chromakopia — a series of dystopian, auteurist videos set to abrasive musical snippets — felt like deceptive advertising. I thought Chromakopia would be a hard-hitting, concept record with an ominous, experimental sound that cast Tyler, the Creator as a wild aggressor figure, given the dictatorial imagery of him ordering marching figures into planes before blowing them up.
Listening to Machine Girl can sometimes feel like being inserted headfirst into a meat grinder; it’s an unrelenting assault that leaves you strangely exhilarated but also satisfied. Their latest release — MG Ultra — which dropped earlier this month, strays slightly from their usual aesthetics, but it still manages to deliver the sonic violence that unmistakably qualifies it as a Machine Girl album.
For their Fall 2024 show, Hopkins’ longest-standing theater company, The Barnstormers, performed one of Shakespeare’s most performed plays, the romantic comedy Twelfth Night. I made sure to attend their first performance on Oct. 24, which had a sparse crowd — likely due to it being on a Thursday — but an energetic atmosphere.
As October comes to a close, we are on the precipice of the spookiest of nights. Some delight in this atmosphere, while others are more content to cower in their rooms with a good movie; yet still, others were just reminded that Halloween is this week, and are currently scrolling Amazon for costume pieces with same-day delivery. Whether your Halloweekend just passed, or for some reason you’re celebrating in November (weird choice), there are plenty of new releases and events which will soothe your soul — perhaps enough to reinhabit your body.
On Oct. 13 from 2—4 p.m., four faculty filmmakers from the Film and Media Studies department screened their work for coworkers, students and friends in the Gilman 50 auditorium. The event highlighted the presenters’ labors of love, with a program that featured the following works: unravelling by Susan Leslie Mann and John Bright Mann, Manger by Jimmy Joe Roche, Turf Valley by Adam Rodgers and Thomas Ventimiglia, and I’m Not Your Monster by Karen Yasinsky.