JOANNA NEWSOM SUSPECTED ELF QUEEN Pixie trips over harp, stumbles upon heaven http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/Arts.html 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. iWeb 1.0.0 http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/Arts_files/joanna%20newsom.png JOANNA NEWSOM SUSPECTED ELF QUEEN Pixie trips over harp, stumbles upon heaven http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/Arts.html SHAW’S MAJOR BARBARA Fillet of the theater right here on Oberlin soil http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/094104DF-0EA2-4CB2-B652-6B55F26DF3C5.html http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/094104DF-0EA2-4CB2-B652-6B55F26DF3C5.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:32:36 -0500 <a href="http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Images/major%20barbara.jpg"><img src="http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/Images/major%20barbara.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:174px; height:131px;"/></a>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 http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/19C065D3-D005-40F4-A21E-871B769A1255.html http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/19C065D3-D005-40F4-A21E-871B769A1255.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:24:13 -0500 <a href="http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Images/girl%20talk.jpg"><img src="http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/thegrape/Grape/Arts/Images/girl%20talk.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:174px; height:174px;"/></a>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