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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

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Review: The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Anastasia” proves the dire consequences of budget cuts to the arts

Anabelle Meyers | November 14, 2024
Despite the best efforts of its cast, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Anastasia” was unable to overcome the challenges of its source material.
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Why you should watch “SATURDAY NIGHT”

Yahana Streeter, Contributing Writer | November 12, 2024
A review of “SATURDAY NIGHT” live from my dorm room.
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Review: Duster and Dirty Art Club at Boston’s House of Blues

Nita Kelly | October 30, 2024

I remember the first time I listened to Duster –– it was a random grunge album that I found on Spotify back in 2019, the muffled vocals and distorted guitar drawing me inward as I slowly added half...

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Boston’s Improv Asylum is no joke

Sage Levy | October 27, 2024

“If it’s great, awesome. If it’s terrible, awesome. The worst thing it could be is mediocre.” This was more or less the consensus my friends and I came to as we eagerly awaited the start of Improv...

Wining & Dining: A taste of Wellesley's Playa Bowls

Wining & Dining: A taste of Wellesley’s Playa Bowls

Kathy Li | October 24, 2024

The opening of Playa Bowls in Wellesley’s Linden Square last semester has, in my opinion, been the greatest thing to happen to the Ville in recent history. As an avid acai bowl enthusiast, the proximity...

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Review: Charli XCX’s “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat”

Nita Kelly | October 23, 2024

Charli XCX’s new album, “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat”, is the sonic embodiment of 2024’s ‘brat summer’ — chaotic, euphoric and unabashedly experimental. With...

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Connecting to E.M. Forster’s “Howards End”

Victoria Llanos | October 5, 2024

“Only connect!” proclaims E.M. Forster in the epigraph of “Howards End” (1910). “Only connect!” expounds the character Margaret Schlegel halfway through the novel. “Only … connect?” I...

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Emerson Stage concludes its run of hilarious bitch-positive play “POTUS”

Ivy Buck | October 4, 2024

From Sept. 25 to 28, the word repeated across the Emerson Greene Theatre stage was, to the probable horror of the few 60 or 70-somethings scattered throughout the audience, “cunt.” Not just in its...

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears in “Whiplash” (2014)

Sage Levy | October 3, 2024

  *Whiplash spoilers ahead*   On Tuesday, Sept. 24, I was lucky enough to catch a 10th anniversary reissue of Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film “Whiplash” at AMC Boston Common 19. The film...

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The competitive streak in Sally Rooney’s new novel, “Intermezzo”

Morgan Gallegos | September 30, 2024

  CW: spoilers, mentions of death, age-gap relationships, and chronic pain   In the spring of 2015, Irish author Sally Rooney reflected on her time as the top competitive debater in Europe in...

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“Rec Reads”: Wellesley’s Literary Weekend Getaway

Lucia Chen | September 24, 2024

Alongside the textbooks and scholarly titles most of us will encounter at some point in our college career, Clapp Library now holds a diverse and expanding collection of recreational reading (aka “Rec...

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Professor Kellie Carter Jackson discusses Black resistance and refusal in her new book

Alina Edwards | September 18, 2024

On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 12, Professor Kellie Carter Jackson and Dr. Chipo Dendere of Wellesley College's Africana Studies department sat down at Wellesley Books to discuss Professor Carter Jackson's...

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