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  • Little Girls and Pink: Sleeping Beauty at the Barber Theatre

    When I walked into the Barber Theatre on January 29th, I immediately thought of two things: pink, and little girls. The latter were there to view Sleeping Beauty, presented by the Davidson Community Players' Connie Company and the Davidson College Department of Theatre.

  • zodiac Ringing in the Lunar New Year, welcoming Year of the Dragon

    Think back to Christmas. Did you hang lights on a tree? Did you play traditional Christmas music? Did your neighborhood seem to light up? The luminous preparation for Christmas Eve is actually very similar to that of the Lunar New Year.  It's just as big and bright.

  • Top 5 Albums of 2011: What did you listen to this year?

      5. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues   In 2008, the Seattle folk-rock band released their self-titled debut LP, overflowing with bright melodies and organic instrumentation. The band's sophomore effort, Helplessness Blues, takes the aspects of what made them successful and adds deeper moments of introspection alongside their trademark golden harmonies.

  • Weekly concert calendar 1-25 Musical performances show that “Davidson’s Got Talent”

    Over fifty concertgoers filled Tyler-Tallman Hall this past Friday for the music department's first Musical Interlude of the semester. The program featured an assortment of works ranging from concert hall pieces by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin to piano rags by Scott Joplin and even works from the popular canon by Burt Bacharach.

  • Winterfest dj Winterfest: a celebration planned by students for students

    I glance at my opponent, Eli Crowder '12, wearing a large, tan, plush body buildtfor impact—an almost perfect reflection of myself. There is no referee to count down, and Eli, who plans on attending medical school next year, wobbles towards me at an alarming pace.