Anna Zalokostas

Editor's Picks

Editor's Picks

Editor's Picks

Editor's Picks

Just an olde fashion rock show

­Within the past few months, Brooklyn-based garage-punk band Vivian Girls has sold out the entire first pressing of their self-titled debut LP, signed to In the Red and opened for Sonic Youth­­. I go…

(Almost) Forgetting it in people

Beneath the layers of violin crescendos, hurtling drums, ambling, gauzy keyboards and hazy, hushed vocals, Broken Social Scene, the Toronto-based baroque pop collective headlining this Saturday’s Larg…

'Snow' is bloody brilliant

Earnestly tapping, tinkering, twirling and whirling out songs of youthful radiance and offbeat beauty, I Saw The Bloodied Snow But I Did Not See The Creature warmed the crowd of Olde Club with its rom…

Past Phoenix editors: Where are they now?

And so the epic tale begins: when my editor first proposed that I write an article catching up with old Editor-in-Chiefs of The Phoenix, I was at first amused. Oh Tiffany, I thought, of course you wan…

Avant-pop band Malajube electrifies with youthful pop at Olde Club

Blistering with exuberance, avant-pop Montreal-based band Malajube took the stage of Olde Club Friday night, Nov. 16, rapturously strumming, drumming, stomping and pounding out songs off of their 2006…

Swarthmore uprooted

This Saturday I did something new: I stopped doing homework before 6 p.m. (actually, I stopped at 4:30 — CRAZY, I know) and then I went to go see The Roots, Hezekiah, and some seriously incredible l…

The Roots

The fact that The Root’s Wikipedia page has a table of contents that spans over four lines should be enough for you to realize that The Roots are far bigger, far more important to music, far more perv…

"They can't put me in a box"

I got the chance to talk to Hezekiah, an artist who frustrates my affinity for modifying adjectives with his singular originality — just a short conversation with the Philadelphia native made it clear…

Dressing up for Halloween on a shoestring

As Halloween continues to get closer, it starts to seem less and less likely that my grand plan of building a giant plane that I can wear as a costume and attaching plastic toy snakes to myself will a…

Vintage: a well kept secret

There’s much more to Philadelphia than cheesesteak, as I learned when I set out to discover some of the coolest places around to shop for great vintage finds. Apparently I was slow on the uptake becau…

Campus myth of the week

When I heard that Swarthmore had an underground tunnel running out of Parrish, I was immediately intrigued. Wellesley College, where I transferred from, has a similar system of underground tunnels tha…

Observing 'that student'

As memorable as your first B+ and as essential to your college experience as sending an e-mail to someone sitting in the same room, “that girl” and “that guy” are classroom legends. Though you might n…

Fisher returns on 'frail craft'

Drawing inspiration from art history, literature and semiotics, Swarthmore alumna and poet Jessica Fisher ‘98 read from her first book, “Frail-Craft,” to an intimate group of friends and fans in the S…

Concert etiquette needed by all

While the nearly successful attempt I made last week to attend four concerts four nights in a row may not have done much for the stack of unopened books sitting on my desk waiting to be read, it did r…

Students document a Screw to remember

You came, you saw. If you participated, you were humiliated. If you didn’t, you laughed and realized why you refused to agree to this in the first place. And three students, Tally Sharma ’09, Melaine …

Mouth water for fans of Animal Collective

Seeping through dense, textured layers of chiming twirls, clanging beeps, churning sonics and rippling delirium, Animal Collective’s forthcoming EP, “Water Curses,” is just as fluid, poignant, seducti…

Highly attended talk by conservative 'modesty' author Wendy Shalit draws big crowds and even bigger questions

Controversial author of “Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good” Wendy Shalit spoke to an eagerly expectant audience in Lang Performing Arts Center on Wedne…

Indie band White Rabbits gets Olde Club hoppin'

Warming up the audience with swirling melodies, tinkering guitars, a resonant accordion and youthful sincerity, Swarthmore’s very own toy band I Saw the Bloodied Snow But I Did Not See the Creature op…

Yo La Tengo to head Worthstock

Though both low, hushed murmurs in McCabe and overtly loud, leaning-across-the-table-type mouth-stretching bellows in Sharples have been passing the name “Yo La Tengo” between chattering lips for a wh…

Vampire Weekend uninspired, hyped-up

Between Largehearted Boy and The New York Times, it seems like everyone in the world is too busy sacrificing small animals on their own personal alters to Vampire Weekend to do anything else but burn …

'Saturday' looks good in Olde Club

I really hope that when Madalyn Baldanzi ’08 was in the process of scheduling which day to book the band Saturday Looks Good To Me for Olde Club this semester, she thought, “Gee, Saturday looks good t…

Debut album by Atlas Sound introspective and ethereal

Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel," the debut full-length album by Atlas Sound (solo project of Deerhunter front man Bradford Cox), begins — on a note that is hauntingly beautiful and eeril…

Bigger Worthstock

Due to the cost of last semester’s LSE, the Large-Scale Event committee has decided to combine this semester’s event with Worthstock. “Based on the size of our budget, we thought that it would be th…

Swarthmore star

Typical Swarthmore: Mark Dlugash ’08, an Honors psychology and education major, manages to find an open time slot in his hour-by-hour, day-by-day overscheduled schedule to pencil in “save the world.” …

Lessons found in 'The Teaches of Peaches'

It’s fairly easy — I know, since even I was guilty of it in the brief folly of my very mature, very knowledgeable youth — to overlook the genius, the innovation, the revolutionary, the (wo)man, the my…

Religion and Spirituality Week at Swat

Religion and Spirituality on Campus Week began two years ago when several Swarthmore students involved in religious organizations voiced concern about the student body’s lack of awareness surrounding …

Juno mixtape a hit

Considering Juno MacGuff’s strong affinity for Patti Smith, The Stooges and The Runaways, her appreciation for Les Paul guitars and the prominent role of music in the film, it seems appropriate (thoug…

Taking pride in doing nothing over break

The start of every semester seems to perpetually keep the most cherished of high school traditions alive: the “What did you do over summer vacation?” essay question. At Swarthmore, this question takes…