Author: Rachel Grate

The Public Fruit Jam took the term “jam session” to a whole new level Feb. 19. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., around 200 people jammed together at Claremont’s San Antonio High School, creating custom marmalades from Seville oranges, kumquats, grapefruit and lemons, or out of fruit from the community’s own backyards.

From events at Pitzer’s Grove House to Friday Band Night at Scripps’s Motley Coffeehouse and a cappella performances all across the Claremont Colleges, the 5Cs celebrate a multitude of musical genres. However, a band of first-years recently found that the colleges don’t represent music from different cultures—cultures like the ones

Not knowing about a party isn’t something one can blame on an invitation “lost in the mail” anymore. In fact, because the 5C party scene is open to all students, the invitation is implied. So when the weekend comes, why are some students still left in the dark about where

The Pomona College Museum of Art will host the opening reception of the second installation of the year-long “It Happened At Pomona” exhibit tomorrow from 5-7 p.m. “Part 2: Helene Winer at Pomona” is an exhibition focusing on the artwork Winer curated while she was the Gallery Director of the

Scripps’s Vita Nova Lecture Hall was transformed into an intimate concert hall, complete with blankets, hot cider and Donut Man donuts, on Nov. 11 before folk bands Penny Dreadful and Spectre performed for an event hosted by Scripps Live Arts (SLA). The event was originally intended to take place in

This Saturday the Claremont Colleges will host their first Taizé service at 4 p.m. in Scripps’s Toll Living Room. Taizé is a Christian worship style that was founded in France by Brother Roger, who sought an inclusive community that devoted itself to simplicity and contemplative worship, according to organizer Becca

On a dark Thursday night at Pomona’s Museum of Art, students covered in scars and fake blood swarmed. If it sounds like a scene from a horror movie, that’s because it was. Last week’s Art After Hours was co-hosted by the club Studio 47, which helped people live their dream

A fifties-style tea parlor, complete with frilly linens, flowered wallpaper and hostesses donning cinched-waist skirts, is not where one would expect to find a group of 5C students discussing contemporary feminist issues. This is just one of many expectations that artists Caitlin Rueter and Suzanne Stroebe are challenging as part

When Harvey Mudd senior Lowell came out on National Coming Out Day in 2008, it was a coincidence. A picture of him with his high school’s Gay Straight Alliance appeared in the newspaper on that Oct. 11, and when his mom asked him about it, Lowell told her he was

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