Author: Shelby Wax

Every morning in Aix-en-Provence, I am regaled with a chorus of bonjours. It isn’t exactly as pleasant as the opening song in Beauty and the Beast—although I have been serenaded on the way to school. Each bonjour is accompanied by leering eyes, kissing noises and an occasional obstruction to my

Leonard Pronko first came to Pomona College in 1957 when they needed a new adjunct professor of French language and literature. Since then, Pronko—the epitome of a Renaissance man—has taught Spanish, Italian, acting, theater history, and Kabuki theater courses. He has directed numerous plays, traveled around the world, published numerous

The prison-industrial complex and solitary confinement will come under fire at Scripps College tonight. Melissa Krassenstein SC ’16 and Jing Gu SC ’16 organized a panel event called “Solitary Hope” at which they hope to discuss issues of imprisonment and justice with the Claremont community.  Krassenstein and Gu said they

Steve Comba has been a familiar face at the Claremont consortium since 1986, not only as a graduate student and Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA) assistant director and registrar, but also as an artist.  From April 26 to July 13, Comba will be showing his art piece Arboretum with the Claremont

Back in medieval England, peasants performed mystery plays—representations of biblical stories—out of traveling wagons. Half a millennium later, students from the 5Cs will also take on the challenge of portraying characters such as the Virgin Mary, Noah, and God. In the Pomona College theater department’s production of medieval mystery plays

Imagine revealing your deepest insecurities and flaws to a complete stranger, then allowing that stranger to take a photograph of you with your insecurity written on your body, then posting it online for millions of people to view. It is an absolutely terrifying premise, but also an incredibly empowering experience

Actors boil with rage, collapse into tears, put on airs of seduction, and jump about the stage while wearing ridiculously extravagant wigs and 17th-century garb in the Pomona College theater department’s production of Molière’s Tartuffe, or The Impostor, which opened yesterday and will show through March 9. Pomona’s production staging mirrors the play’s

TED is returning to Claremont on Feb. 22 with a few new tales to tell. In its third year, TEDxClaremontColleges has expanded its scope under the theme “Unexpected Narratives,” with a series of speakers set to tell their own stories as well as explore the idea of storytelling. “As we