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Installation artist Ima Fraud and Dramaturge Keith Galessing have joined forces in developing a new vision of Shakespeare's "All's Well that Ends Well," performed entirely with garden gnomes.

What kind of Swarthmore date are you?

John Smith '13 isn't fully aware of it yet, but checking the "I'm Coming!" box on that acceptance letter he got yesterday means that he has just given up all hope of ever changing the world.

With the housing lotteries coming up soon, the Gazette decided to sit down with the Swatties who know their dorms best, the Dorm Creatures! This week, we interview Willets Cat, the favored feline of the campus’ well-known basically-sophomore dorm.

Novelist Elizabeth Strout read a selection of her work and announced the winners of the Plumer Potter Awards for student fiction.

“Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,” says Helicanus to Pericles and these words of advice are certainly followed in Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre.” The play, an adventure that floats the audience across the Mediterranean, is opening tonight in the

Last night was the opening of the Philadelphia Film Festival, a 12 night series of “cinematic bacchanalia” from around the world. Here are a few films you might stop and see.

This Friday, Swarthmore’s Middle Eastern Cultural Society (MECS) will be hosting a screening of Iranian documentary “Nobody’s Enemy” followed by a performance by the popularly-known King of Persian Rap, YAS [7 PM LPAC Main Stage]. The event, entitled “A Glimpse into Iranian

This past Tuesday, the College's English Department and Cooper Foundation sponsored a reading by Paul Muldoon—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Poetry Editor of The New Yorker, professor at Princeton University, and lyricist and rhythm guitarist for his band Rackett.

The Black Cultural Center (BCC) and Swarthmore African-American Students Society (SASS) held their first Black Alumni Celebration, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of SASS and the BCC.