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Cast members of "Celebration!" rehearse the first act, "Birthday." The act depicts a woman, covered in fake blood, giving birth and a sadistic doctor beating and slapping babies.

A peek behind the curtain of Ithaca’s most bizarre play

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
May 2, 2018
Snapshot: Fourth Meal — Late-Night Dining

Snapshot: Fourth Meal — Late-Night Dining

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
April 11, 2018
P.J. Morton, the keyboardist from pop group Maroon 5, will be coming to the Finger Lakes Thaw music festival from New Orleans. The festival is two days long and has 35 artists performing.

New music festival breaks the ice in Ithaca

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
March 20, 2018
Senior Rebecca Guderian, one of the actresses who plays Cendrillon, and senior Marshall Pokrentowski, one of the performers who plays Pandolfe, rehearse a scene from the opera "Cendrillon."

Main Stage combines music with magic in fairy tale opera

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
February 21, 2018
Freshman Aviva Nachman took a gap year before coming to college and started her own magazine and booking company. Her magazine, YIKE!, has one issue currently available and her booking company, Pink Buddha Presents, has booked approximately 15 shows.

WATCH: Student uses gap year to create music-centered projects

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
February 13, 2018
Junior Rachel Hamlin, president of IC Circle K, and Senior Stephanie Greenidge, the vice president of IC Circle K, stand at the sixth annual holiday fundraiser sale. The holiday sale is a collaboration between IC Circle K and local fair-trade store One World Market.

Club partners with local fair-trade store for holiday sale

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
December 13, 2017
Senior Sandra Sackey plays Oya in the play "In the Red and Brown Water," which will be showing Dec. 5–10 in the Clarke Theater in Dillingham.

Latest IC Main Stage play puts black women centerstage

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
December 6, 2017
From left, senior Sarah Stuart-Sikowitz, junior Oscar Mayer, junior Madeline Mathers and sophomore Sam Hillmann work on one of many projects to preserve the IC Natural Lands.

WATCH: Student workers maintain the Ithaca College Natural Lands

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
October 12, 2017
From left, seniors Will Thames and Jake Nusbaum play alternate versions of Prior Walter. Prior is a gay man with AIDS who sees visions of ghosts and angels.

‘Angels in America’ soars to Ithaca College main stage

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
September 14, 2017
Senior Serena Columbro working on her series "Disparate Images: Reflections on Memory." The series is a nostalgic look into her own past.

Summer Scholars showcase art in Creative Space Gallery

By Kate Nalepinski, Senior Writer
August 30, 2017
Many college students often refer to themselves as “broke” when they may be low on funds, a trend that romanticizes poverty while ignoring the issues of low-income students.

Commentary: “Broke” college student trivializes lower-class issues

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
April 26, 2017
Sophomore Sammie Watts belts out “Let’s Be Bad” dressed as Marilyn Monroe in Routine Disturbances’ spring showcase April 21.

Show choir performance addresses political tension

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
April 26, 2017
From left, sophomore Sydney Brenner, vice president of Hillel, leads a discussion during a J Street U meeting on Feb. 20 in the Six Mile Creek room in the Campus Center. Junior Liz Alexander, co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine, voices her concerns over the lack of collaboration between SJP and on-campus pro-Israel groups at a different meeting April 11.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict reflected in campus community

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
April 19, 2017
Father John Misty is an alternative folk musician known for his work on his album's "Fear Fun" and "I Love You, Honeybear." His latest album, "Pure Comedy," released April 7 through Sub Pop Records

Review: ‘Pure Comedy’ from pompous folk-rocker is a joke

By Kate Nalepinski, Life and Culture Editor
April 19, 2017
Novelist Yewande Omotoso reads an excerpt of her second novel “The Woman Next Door,” at the kickoff event of the New Voices Festival April 5 at Buffalo Street Books.

New Voices Literary Festival spotlights rising writers

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
April 5, 2017
Ithaca-based Cayuga Sound Festival announced for Fall 2017

Ithaca-based Cayuga Sound Festival announced for Fall 2017

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
March 28, 2017
From left, junior Ilana Diamant, senior Tal Eyal, lecturer Mirit Hadar and Joshua Edrich ’15 smile at the 2015 Israel Film Festival. Hadar co-created the festival 4 years ago with help from Igor Khokhlov, the previous director of the college’s sector of Hillel.

Film festival spotlights Israeli culture to student audience

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
March 22, 2017
Senior Byron Bixler, president and editor in chief of Filmic Magazine, worked to bring four film screenings to campus with help from other editors and the Ithaca College chapter of the Delta Kappa Alpha National Professional Cinema Fraternity.

Q&A: Filmic Magazine screens collection of alternative films

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
March 20, 2017
Sophomore Jacob Kerzner and senior Nick Kelliher pose as Sesto and Emperor Tito, respectfully. The duo will perform in “La Clemenza di Tito” on Feb. 24 and 28, and March 2 and 4.

‘La Clemenza di Tito’ restaged with a modern political twist

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
February 22, 2017
Professor Timothy Johnson's course on "Hamilton: An American Musical" integrates history, politics and math into a discussion about the musical sensation.

Q&A: IC professor starts a revolution with ‘Hamilton’ course

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
February 21, 2017
Sophomore Griffin Charyn, clarinetist, plays along to “Cara Mia Addio” from “Portal 2,” conducted by Bryce Tempest at the Feb. 12 rehearsal. Through music, the group aims to be empowered by the nerd stereotype that’s often associated with video gamers.

Orchestra aims to eradicate gender bias and video gamer stigma

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
February 15, 2017
Politics professor Naeem Inayatullah recently co-wrote a scholarly article that applies an intersectional critique to capitalist theories outlined in the book “How the West Came to Rule.”

Q&A: Politics professor critiques capitalist theory

By Kate Nalepinski
February 8, 2017
The performers sing “Go Down Moses,” a well-known Negro spiritual, during their rehearsal on Jan. 23. Performers sport Kente cloths from Ghana, purchased by conductor Baruch Whitehead.

Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers honor African-American culture

By Jake Leary and Kate Nalepinski
February 8, 2017
Ithaca College students stand in different locations around the campus for the #takeitback campaign. Attached to each photo on Facebook is a written post in which the subject explains their struggles with labels. Awwad has compiled over 35 images of students and the collection is still growing.

#takeitback: Student combats labels with social media campaign

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
February 1, 2017
Sophomore Isaiah Horton performs an improvisational rap with Brü on Jan. 27 for the Sinfonia Ball in the Whalen Center for Music. The musician later put on a wig designed to look like President Donald Trump's hair and performed a rehearsed political rap.

Ithaca funk bands raise money for Southside Community Center

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
February 1, 2017
Storyboard P, Brooklyn-based street dancer who is known for channeling his emotional state and improvisation through flex, a form of dance, will be the keynote performer for the MLK week celebration at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in Clark Theatre in the Dillingham Center.

Influential street dancer glides onto campus for MLK Week

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
January 25, 2017
The Ghostlight Project occurred within theater communities nationally — from Broadway to high school, regional and community theaters. CONNOR LANGE/ THE ITHACAN

Ithaca theater community marches for the Ghostlight Project

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
January 23, 2017
"I See You" is the latest release by English indie pop band, The xx, and topped the UK charts within a week of release.

Review: Indie group The xx hits the mark with ‘I See You’

By Kate Nalepinski
January 20, 2017
The cast and crew of “Moonlight” accept the award for Best Motion Picture in the Drama category during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 8 in Beverly Hills.

‘Moonlight’ featuring IC student receives Oscar nominations

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
January 9, 2017
IC student establishes charity event for Amatrice earthquake

IC student establishes charity event for Amatrice earthquake

By Colette Piasecki-Masters and Kate Nalepinski
November 16, 2016
These digital competitions and projects are not new to the Park school, but one new element of the production process is that the sideshow will be run by students from “Live Event Production,” a television-radio class taught by Chrissy Guest.

Park Digital Sideshow brings a circus of events to IC campus

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor
October 5, 2016
Jammin' Out: Ithaca College bands take on the local music scene

Jammin’ Out: Ithaca College bands take on the local music scene

By Kate Nalepinski, Meg Tippett, and Taylor Zambrano
September 14, 2016
Tinder Is The Night: IC students find relationships through Tinder

Tinder Is The Night: IC students find relationships through Tinder

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor
September 7, 2016
IC junior creates high school curriculum to promote critical thinking

IC junior creates high school curriculum to promote critical thinking

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor
September 4, 2016
Senior Alyssa Rodriguez spent the summer evaluating the "manic pixie dream girl," a trope often found in modern media when a quirky woman advances the plot for male characters.

Summer scholar analyzes ‘manic pixie dream girl’ in pop culture

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor
September 1, 2016
Review: Glass Animals' alt-indie album shatters expectations

Review: Glass Animals’ alt-indie album shatters expectations

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor
August 30, 2016
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is a psychotic clown with a terrifying backstory in the movie adaptation of 'Suicide Squad'.

Review: ‘Squad’ adaptation refuses to stay true to comics

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor
August 22, 2016
On Dec. 11, 2015, student and faculty at Ithaca College voiced their criticisms toward President Tom Rochon during a rally. The turbulent campus climate from the Fall 2015 semester motivated junior Michele Hau to research ties between dialogue, rhetoric and racism.

Student addresses racism and rhetoric in scholar program

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life and Culture Editor
August 21, 2016
From left, local musicians Beverly Stokes ’10 and assistant professor of biology Brooks Miner created and produced their first album, “All These Dotted Lines,” released May 10.

Assistant professor and alumna produce indie album

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
May 3, 2016
Actresses perform in the Honest Accomplice Theatre play, "The Birds and the Bees: Unabridged," and will be bringing the production to Ithaca College at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. on April 11.

Theatre group to bring play on identities to Ithaca College

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
April 6, 2016
From left, Cindi Berger '83, assistant professor Chrissy Guest and Allison Usavage '11 discuss issues of representation of women in the media during the Roy H. Park School of Communications' Women in Media Panel on March 8, one of the events during the Park School's Women in Media Month.

Media Wonderwomen: Ithaca College celebrates women in media

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
March 9, 2016
Dan Gilman, public speaker and pastor, gave a talk about the harmful effects of porn on rape culture in the U.S. to students and faculty Feb. 26.

Visiting pastor discusses porn and rape culture

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
March 2, 2016
Junior Xuan Gui strikes a monkey pose to commemorate the Year of the Monkey for Chinese New Year. She also holds a red envelope to represent good luck and warding off evil spirits.

Lucky Monkey: IC students celebrate Chinese New Year

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
February 10, 2016
Review: Drama film fizzles with flavorless plotline

Review: Drama film fizzles with flavorless plotline

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
November 16, 2015
Review: Songs from "V" make waves

Review: Songs from “V” make waves

By Kate Nalepinski, Staff Writer
October 6, 2015
Dancers in Lindsay Gilmour's modern dance class are taught Gerard and Kelly's style of movement.

Movement artists bring modern art to Ithaca College

By Kate Nalepinski, Contributing Writer
September 16, 2015

Preview: Ithaca restaurants compete in chili cook-off

By Kate Nalepinski, Contributing Writer
February 3, 2015
From right, junior Ashley Chanatry stands with her friend, Elisabeth Marchbanks, in front of the Sydney Opera House during her study-abroad semester in Sydney, Australia.

Ithaca College sends students to Australia for a semester abroad

By Kate Nalepinski, Contributing Writer
December 3, 2014
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