Oberlin Blogs

It's been over a week since the final performance of the Johnson Family Circus. I'm in an extraordinary position to continue reliving the show for days, weeks, even months after.

Is this safe? Safe enough.

First things first: if you're around town you should go see the opera Cendrillon when it goes up this coming week. The Opera Theatre department here is probably the best undergraduate classical

I listened to Jim's piece "Chorale" this morning. Damn, it was great.

Ratatat, playing at the Sco on Tuesday, was insane.

The Oberlin Conservatory attracts a number of world-class musicians, but its presence on campus is also a major draw for college students who wish to continue studying music without committing to a pre-professional program.

We Oberlin students are a lucky bunch. The campus provides an impossible number of lectures, exhibits, readings, and performances, and we are burdened with the enviable luxury of bouncing around from event to event, gorging ourselves on art and music and culture until exhaustion necessitates a break.

I usually don't like bowling at all. (This might be just because I am exceptionally bad at it.) But last night, I had a good time.