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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

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All content by Emily Cao
Everything You Need to Know about LDOC Artist CupcakKe

Everything You Need to Know about LDOC Artist CupcakKe

Emily Cao | April 24, 2024

If you’re anything like me, you’ve heard bits and pieces of  CupcakKe’s music over the years through Tik Tok audios and viral remixes. Or maybe you hadn’t heard of CupcakKe at all, in which...

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Hozier Releases “Be – Acoustic” and New EP “Unheard”

Emily Cao | March 27, 2024

  Hozier’s success in the past year can be chalked up to more than just simple luck, but it certainly skyrocketed on St. Patrick’s Day of 2023 with the release of his teaser EP “Eat Your Young.”...

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Review: “The Anonymous Lover” at the Boston Lyric Opera

Emily Cao | March 6, 2024

An email from the music department turned an ordinary Thursday morning into an exciting game of “How fast can I fill out this google form?” The email’s subject line, “Free Boston Lyric Opera tickets...

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SAG-AFTRA reaches tentative deal with studios

Emily Cao | November 29, 2023

On Nov. 8, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced they had reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers...

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The Spookiest Thing of All? Costumes of Long-dead Rich People

Emily Cao | November 28, 2023

Like the Victorian version of the frats of Beacon Street on Halloween, members of Gilded Age high society “pulled up” in elaborate costumes to 660 Fifth Avenue, the lavish New York City mansion of...

Digging into Hozier’s Unreal Unearth: “De Selby (Part 1)” and the Population of Loss

Digging into Hozier’s Unreal Unearth: “De Selby (Part 1)” and the Population of Loss

Emily Cao | September 23, 2023

Grinning, half-buried, and caked in dirt, Hozier’s third album, “Unreal Unearth” emerges from beyond the grave. Taking inspiration from Dante’s “Inferno”, he describes, in an interview with...

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Where did the “Twilight” Renaissance Even Come From, Loca?

Emily Cao | March 22, 2023

I’m going to share something deeply troubling and very vulnerable right now (deep breath).  In seventh grade I made fun of my best friend for reading “Twilight.” I know — I’m deeply ashamed...

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Lucy Dacus Brings a Minimal Yet Powerful Performance to Northeastern University

Emily Cao | February 8, 2023

From a red plastic chair, Lucy Dacus sang about pressing her thumbs into a man’s irises until they burst. Over an hour before doors opened, students were sitting on the floor outside Northeastern University’s...

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