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Now that classes are over, it's an excellent time to catch a movie as Oscar season approaches. Intrepid indie film fans should head to the Ritz in the Old City [...]

Among the many culminating student arts performances of this week and next was last night's poetry reading, by the twelve members of this semester's Advanced Poetry workshop. Professor Natalie Anderson, [...]

The end-of-the semester a cappella jamboree is here, and the Gazette checked in with all the campus groups for an exclusive preview. Jazz group Oscar and Emily is hosting the [...]

On Saturday night, Lang Concert Hall was removed from suburban Philadelphia and transported to 19th-century Vienna. Under the direction of John Alston, the Swarthmore College Orchestra and Chorus came together [...]

After an extensive search, conductor Richard Fletcher has been hired to lead the Swarthmore College Orchestra, succeeding Daniel Alfred Wachs. Fletcher attended Julliard and the New England Conservatory of Music, [...]

"Does wearing high heels make you sterile?" That is a question posed by a young woman visiting the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) in Bill Condon’s intelligent new film. [...]

About forty students attended a movie screening and lecture on the life of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, a revolutionary known throughout the Latin American world as "El Che." The [...]

Swarthmore classical music fans stayed on campus this weekend for two outstanding concerts. Though both Orchestra 2001 and the Bang on a Can All-Stars played concert music written within the [...]

The only superlative the capacity crowd could find to describe Saturday night's performance of Mozart's Requiem by the College Chorus and Orchestra was "powerful." Yet, in that single descriptor were [...]

It's the weekend before Thanksgiving, folks. With a shortened week, surely you can spare some time this weekend to go into Philly to blow off some steam. Philadelphia has a [...]