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Archive for Katie Salmon
('15) is an English major who likes contemporary fiction, tall mountains, and cats.
For IDA Director Jeff Chang, Art is Prophecy
The first question that crossed my mind when I met Jeff Chang was: How does a Chinese-Hawaiian prep school kid from the islands with a hipster-esque fashion sense become one of today’s preeminent hip-hip scholars and activists?
Why We Fall for Certain Musicians (like Jake Shimabukuro)
Everyone loves Jake Shimabukuro. Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I wouldn’t have known it sitting in Bing Concert Hall, listening to the crowd’s seemingly uncontainable cheers and applause for the ukulele virtuoso.
‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ has Slapstick, Subtlety, and Sexual Innuendo
Roble Theater has been transformed into a turn of the century Parisian café for the production of Steve Martin’s comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile, directed by Max Walker-Silverman and produced by Safiya Nygaard.
Crawling Skin and Ambiguity: The Kathryn Harrison Reading
This is possibly the most difficult article I have written since I was learning the five-paragraph hamburger style essay (so you’d better enjoy it, damn it).
Visiting Poet Louise Glück’s reading is intimate and soaring A Reading With
Stanford has drawn great writers – they come as speakers, visiting faculty, permanent faculty, and writers in residence. Given how many speakers the creative writing department hosts each quarter, it seems like it would be difficult to continue to top expectations and make each reading extraordinary. But this past Tuesday, I was lucky enough to hear poet Louise Glück read to a large, absolutely silent Cemex auditorium. Expectations were met and exceeded.
Another Castle Brings the Funk Profiles of the Stanford Artist
It is a chilly fall night on campus and people are packed onto rows of couches and benches behind Slav, bundled in coats and scarves and swaying to the music of Another Castle, a three-piece band: a rapping drummer wearing a bright orange headband, a crooning guitarist in a hipster vest, and a bassist whose expression never changes, except for occasionally sticking out his tongue during, presumably, tricky parts.