Author: Tessa Paoli

This weekend, the Pitzer mounds will transform into festival mode—complete with bands, artists, vendors, day-drinking and free food—for the college’s annual Kohoutek Music and Art Festival. Kohoutek is a chance for students of the 5Cs to attend a free music festival right in their backyard. This year’s festival marks the

Students and musicians came together on April 14 for the free 5C music festival, No-Chella.  Developed in response to the popular albeit expensive Coachella festival, which started last weekend., and presented by PEC Live Arts, No-Chella seeks to challenge the corporate sponsorship model for popular music festivals like Coachella, organizer Amaru Tejeda

Electronic sensation Sleigh Bells performed at the Fox in Pomona Wednesday. Sleigh Bells, a Brooklyn-based duo consisting of former pop princess Alexis Krauss and guitarist/producer Derek Edward Miller, has an emerging sound that incorporates electronic, hip-hop, rock, punk and hard core. The Wednesday night show in Pomona brought a diverse

Ryka Aoki, Asian-American transgender performance artist, activist and poet, comes to the Claremont Colleges tomorrow. The Asian American Resource Center’s Queer and Asian Committee organized a three-part series of events surrounding Aoki’s visit. The Queer and Asian Committee strives to bring a diverse range of queer individuals, like Aoki, to

The 5C all-female a cappella group Women’s Blue and White hosted visiting Yale a cappella group Proof of the Pudding at their March 7 Snack concert on the Frary steps. Women’s Blue and White is a mixture of women from all 5Cs. The group performed a diverse range of popular

The Kohoutek Battle of the Bands united music lovers across the Claremont Colleges and raised enthusiasm for the Kohoutek Music and Arts Festival Feb. 24 at the Grove House. The show featured eight Pitzer College student performers or groups that competed for four spots available at Kohoutek, the largest music

Los Angeles-based musician Ferraby Lionheart performed at the Motley Coffeehouse Feb. 18. Lionheart, a folk- and country-inspired singer-songwriter, primarily plays the piano, guitar and harmonica and captivates audiences with his romantic lyrics and gentle voice. The Motley performance was sponsored by Scripps Live Arts and organized by member Edie Adams SC

Ukellective is a new Claremont Colleges group dedicated to playing the ukulele. Founded by Eliza Longnecker PO ’14 and Adam Buchholz PO ’12, Ukellective strives to unite the ukulele players across the colleges and to diversify music culture on campus. Both Longnecker and Buchholz feel passionately about the ukulele and want

Pitzer-based band The Sweet Nothings performed an acoustic show at The Shakedown Café’s spring semester opening Feb. 5. The Shakedown Café, Pitzer’s student-run organic eatery located in the Gold Student Union, provides students with local and organic produce and is committed to sustainability. The café, which first opened in the

Pitzer’s Lenzner Family Art Gallery hosted the opening reception of Vanitas, an exhibit by Long Beach-based artist Matthew Ohm on Jan. 21. Ohm’s project is the sixth edition of the Lenzner Gallery’s Emerging Artist Series, which has been in progress for the past four years. The series showcases up-and-coming artists