Food, henna, music, dance and an opportunity to learn are some of the things you’ll find if you come to Nur Night (pronounce nUUr) on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. The Muslim Student Association (MSA) will host the event as an opportunity to support and listen to minority students on campus. The event has evolved since Hemani and Virani...

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Illustration by Andrew NebhutOn March 30, the Trinity Symphony Orchestra played a concert so full that we had to turn people away at the door due to the building fire code. I’m here to tell you that this matters a lot. When I first came to Trinity three years ago, it wasn’t because of the music program. I was lured...

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut Aries - Chili Queens Cookoff, April 28I know that you crave drama, competition and hot things, fire signs. This unconventional Fiesta event celebrating all things tacky will satisfy your hunger in more ways than one. Taurus - River Parade, April 22If anything would get you out of the house Taurus, it would be the River Parade....

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Illustration by Andrea Nebhut By now, someone in your life has told you about a little movie called “Us,” directed by Jordan Peele and starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke. They might have used adjectives like “perfect” or “utterly perfect” or something mundane like “amazing.” I am here to tell you they couldn’t be more on the mark. I was...

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Photo by Matthew Claybrook In Trinity’s Attic Theater, the clock is ticking for the three-person cast of “Tick, Tick ... Boom!,” a student-run musical. The piece serves as the senior capstone project of director Nico Champion and stage manager Mindy Tran. “Tick, Tick ... Boom!” was written by the composer of the famed musical “Rent,” Jonathan Larson, before he found...

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Photo by Henry Pratt As I walk into an open rehearsal for “The Men’s Project: A Theatre for Social Change Project,” which premieres on April 6 at 3 p.m. and April 7 at 5 p.m. in the Café Theater, I see a through-line neatly jotted on a whiteboard. In theatre for social change, the through-line serves as the backbone of...

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Photos by Matthew Claybrook After attending the Classical Receptions film series their freshman year, sophomores Margaret Lupo and Allison Carr decided to create a club dedicated to the appreciation of film. After nearly two semesters as a club, they’re excited to continue growing. Long before Lupo and Carr’s film club, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, assistant professor of classical studies, began a...

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Photos by Matthew Claybrook Beginning this Friday, Trinity’s theater department will bring an award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist play, “The Wolves,” to its Stieren Theatre. A fast-paced and austere coming-of-age play, “The Wolves” touches on subjects of identity and loss through conversations between nine teenage girls during their weekly soccer warm-ups. The entire show is set in a domed soccer...

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Photo provided by Sarah Erickson “Take one pint of water, add a half pound of sugar, the juice of eight lemons … the zest of half lemon. Pour the water from one jug then into the other several times. Strain through a clean napkin.” On March 20, in the Chapman Center’s Great Hall, a viewing party of Beyoncé’s visual album...

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Photo provided by Kathleen Creedon“It is midday. The sun is at its peak, the turning point, the transition of day. Two figures ascend a dusty hill. They take a stance across from each other as mirror images. Each puts a hand on their weapon — past versus present. Draw. Bang. Who emerges from the dust? This is why we call...

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