JOANNA NEWSOM SUSPECTED ELF QUEEN
Pixie trips over harp, stumbles upon heaven
SHAW’S MAJOR BARBARA
Fillet of the theater right here on Oberlin soil
Thursday, December 14, 2006
By Seymore Butts
Staff Writer
It’s early December in Oberlin, and that can only mean one thing: the event we’ve all been waiting for with baited breath for the entire semester is upon us! Or at leas
DO WHAT WE TELL YOU!
The Grape Recommends: Girl Talk
Thursday, December 14, 2006
By Michael Waldrep
Staff Writer
Come December 16, you will have the chance to watch me make a complete and total ass of myself on the dance floor. It will be ugly. Maybe not as awful as the hippie sh
By Nina Moffitt
Staff Writer
Joanna Newsom, folk harper and singer from Nevada City, is and has been a mystery to us since the release of her first album, Milk Eyed Mender. Here is an artist whose aesthetic seems to have been plucked straight out of the 16th century and colored with traces of a true love affair with nature. She is often received with shock upon first listen because of her unusual voice quality, which has been described as both childlike and decrepitly aged.
