Archive for April, 2010

Vassar Bands at Babycakes

April 16th, 2010 by

All five members of The Facts and Figures.

This past Thursday, April 8, 2010, Babycakes Cafe was filled to the brim with Vassar students dying to hear some live music.  Courtesy of The Vassar Students Band Union and Democracy Matters, the event proved Babycakes was a new and interesting venue for Vassar bands to play, and Vassar students to spend their Thursday evening.

Vassar senior Zach Huckel-Bauer opened the night, setting the tone and atmosphere while engaging and involving the large crowd.  By the time The Anti-Job, starring Vassar senior Amanda Jones as lead singer and guitarist, with junior Katie Troy on drums, came one, the tables in the front of Babycakes needed to be cleared, and it was obvious that the night was turning out to be quite successful.

Senior Zach Huckel-Bauer started off the night.

Katie Troy, Drummer for the Anti-Job

Amanda Jones, lead singer of The Anti-Job.

Ben Conant, the organizer of The Vassar Student Bands Union is also lead singer of The Facts and Figures, who finished off the evening.  Even at the end the crowd was still pulsing with enthusiasm.  Hopefully this event brought Babycakes enough success to become a weekly endeavor, but certainly it is encouraging to see The Vassar Students Band Union coming up with such a lively and fruitful event so early on in their history as an organization.  Its safe to say there is a lot of good to come in the future.

VSBU Founder Ben Conant.

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Drag Fashion

April 5th, 2010 by

All of the contestants were full of stage presence and sass.

This weekend was Queer Coalition Vassar College’s annual Flawless Extravaganza. As expected, it was a huge demonstration of gaudy, explosively colorful, and extravagant outfits, performances and personalities. But the clothing was really quite a spectacle. Fitting a male body into female clothing is always an experiment, and pulling it off well certainly a challenge. But, all of the five contestants in the drag show did so very well.

Judging the event was Senior Jodie Gerard, Junior Adam Shapiro, Sophomore Kevin Cho, Freshman Cydney Love Smith, and local professional drag queen Isis Vermouth. All looked fabulous and had many biting opinions about the contestants.

The Judges, from left to right, Isis Vermouth, Cydney Love Smith, Kevin Choe, Adam Shapiro, and Jodie Gerard.

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An Artistic Retrospective with Kimmy

April 1st, 2010 by

After a colorful week of wearing masks of different personas, Kimmy’s back to being herself again. She said that her performance art project has been “an interesting personal trip” looking back to her life. Because, the project not only made her look back and think, but also lead her to having conversations with people where she talked multiple times about her life choices.

Kimmy also said that with this project, she has been able to find out what other people’s dreams were. It turns out a lot of girls at Vassar were dreaming of becoming Princess Jasmine when they were kids.

It’s also interesting to note the effects different outfits had on Kimmy’s mood and personality on specific days. She said she behaved a lot more seriously on the second day of her project when she was an architect, whereas she felt a lot more freer when she was a scuba diver.

Having completed this nostalgic and retrospective project, Kimmy decided she is happy to be who she is and likes where she stands in her life right now. It’s not hard to see that she is very happy to be an art student at Vassar, and judging from this project, I think she is a very creative one. Personally, I’m looking forward to see her future projects.

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Film lecture series: the saga continues

April 1st, 2010 by

The Film Department and Vassar Filmmakers have been hosting lecturer after lecturer in rapidfire succession this semester, each speaker a respective badass in the realm of film and television. The series has been made possible by a grant received by the Department from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. TONIGHT in Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film 109, the next iteration of this series is here, this time funded solely by the Film Department.

Check out a screening of the 1978 Oscar nominee Pretty Baby at 5:00 pm, starring a 12-year old Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon and Keith Carradine. And try this on for size: AT 7:00 PM in the same locale, Keith Carradine will discuss Pretty Baby, his other films and his experiences as an actor. The man might be familiar to students thanks to his robust television career. “Damages,” “Dexter,” and “Dollhouse,” have seen his latest roles (the killer D’s of drama, one might say).

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