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The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

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Doubting Thomas: Edward Berger’s “Conclave”

Galeta Sandercock | November 14, 2024
In “Conclave” (2024), the Pope is dead, but mysteries abound. A cardinal’s last meeting with the Pope ends with a resignation request. An unknown cardinal shows up for the conclave. Cardinal Lawrence is left to sort through it all. Spoilers ahead.
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...

Image courtesy of Jay Connor and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals

Haste Makes Waste: Review of Hasty Puddings’ “Heist Heist Baby”

Anabelle Meyers | March 6, 2024

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the university’s undergraduate theater ensemble, put on “Heist Heist Baby,” which follows budding journalist, Rita L’Boutette (Isabella Peña) in her attempt...

The Glorification of Serial Killers

The Glorification of Serial Killers

Elizabeth Murno | October 23, 2022

With “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”  (2022) starring Evan Peters having launched on Netflix, there has been a discourse about how people fetishize crime and glorify serial killers,...

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“Yellowjackets” & the Unspoken Trauma in Survival

Hanna Nicole Fernan | March 2, 2022

Light Spoilers for Season 1 of “Yellowjackets”! Until recently, I did not realize how much fictional media there is about plane crash survivors in remote locations, like the notorious book “Lord...

Romance Reads for Your Valentine’s Day Pleasure

Delaney Morgan | February 9, 2022

Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is a very weird holiday in that people experience it wildly differently. For some, it is a day to spend with your significant other. Some people use...

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