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Pants down, jokes up: Banshees close the year

Pants down, jokes up: Banshees close the year

Lydia Derris and Collyn Ballentine April 10, 2025

Editor’s note: This article reflects the views of Lydia Derris and Collyn Ballentine, not the Old Gold & Black.  The Lilting Banshees — (allegedly) Wake Forest’s sharpest comedic minds —...

 Director Michael Kamtman gives suggestions to his actors during rehearsals.

“The Tempest” blows through Tedford Stage

Adam Coil, Senior Writer April 10, 2025

Wake Forest University Theater Department’s production of “The Tempest” opened on April 7, after almost a year of effort in the making.  Its story began in the summer of last year with senior...

A couple contemplating “The Kuerners” (1971) at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

“Eye of the Earth”: Wyeth’s quiet fire

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor April 10, 2025

Art exhibition “Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth,” co-organized by Reynolda House Museum of American Art and the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, made its national debut in...

“We don’t get workouts. We don’t get nutrition. We don’t get any of that,” senior Dani O’Keefe, a team captain, said. “And that’s kinda messed up".
(Courtesy of Wake Forest Athletics)

Wake Forest Dance Team battles lack of support at UDA Nationals

Maria Silveira and Collyn Ballentine April 8, 2025

Fevers burned and energy drained as the Wake Forest Dance Team’s jazz routine failed to advance past prelims at the Universal Dance Association College Dance Nationals (UDA) on Jan. 17. With some...

"Amid all this chaos, we also see how agency can be created by what one chooses to think about and remember."

“Constellations” falls in love for the first time over and over again

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor December 4, 2024

What if you could see all of the different ways your life could turn out, depending on how you act in a given moment? This is the premise of “Constellations,” a play written by Nick Payne and performed...

Willa Wasserman (left) and Jane Alexander (right) sit down to begin their discussion on Wasserman's work in the Reese Collection.

Reese Collection adds to the conversation on trans art

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor November 24, 2024

Sitting in Hanes Art Gallery is a painting that will be different every time you go see it. The painting by Willa Wasserman, titled “Making the shape of the letter x or 'no' with my body reflected in...

"More than anything, what I think this play truly understands about our lives in this age of the internet is just how intimate and intertwined the comical and the tragic is — the quotidian and the catastrophic."

“Love and Information” finds harmony in shocks and glitches

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor November 7, 2024

If you want to know how theater can respond to our current cultural moment of Brat summers and endless doom-scrolling, you need not go any further than Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center, where Caryl...

Margaret Bender, the chair of the Anthropology Department and a Linguistics faculty member,
introduces Jeffrey Bourns and his talk “The Deverbal Origins of Cherokee Adjectives.”

Linguist Jeffrey Bourn’s talk aids the preservation effort of the endangered Cherokee language

Emma Leonard, Contributing Writer October 25, 2024

The Cherokee language, native to western North Carolina, is in danger of having no first-language speakers — with approximately 2,000 first-language speakers existing today. A variety of factors contribute...

"Nakayasu began her writer’s workshop in Benson Center by outlining her own philosophy and approach to translating, describing herself (somewhat jokingly) as an emancipated-ultra-idio-translator."

Sawako Nakayasu reveals the practice behind the poetry

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor October 21, 2024

Sawako Nakayasu is a poet and translator who has garnered international acclaim for her impressive command of English, Japanese and French and her distinct approach to translation. When she came to Wake...

Wake Forest's Anthony Aston Players kick off the 2024-2025 theater season with "The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940."

Wake Forest Theatre department stabs into the Fall season

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor September 23, 2024

The Wake Forest Theatre Department opens its Fall catalog with Cindy Genrich’s interpretation of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” a potent mix of satirical silliness and Nancy-Drew-esque mystery.  The...

Several art, music and theater events can be expected on campus this semester. (Courtesy of Wake Forest University)

Arts & Culture preview: Fall 2024

Adam Coil and Lydia Derris September 19, 2024

There is a lot to look forward to in the Arts & Culture scene this Fall semester at Wake Forest, and as your A&C editors, we want to give you a sneak peek into some of the biggest events that you...

Group Q&A session after the reveal.

2024 Reese Collection reveal

Sheryl Zhang, Contributing Writer September 15, 2024

A panel of eight Wake Forest students brought home eight contemporary artwork as additions to the Reese Collection, from a trip to New York over the last spring break. The art pieces represented a variety...

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