A&E

BY LEAH MOSS ’20 Arts and Entertainment Editor When one typically thinks of Shakespeare, they think of a somewhat boring text that they have to read in English class. However, this fall a new and very unique interpretation of Macbeth will take place here at Lake Forest College. In the Shakespeare class last semester, the students were assigned a paper on a Shakespeare play they hadn’t read in class. Tyler Madeley ’18 chose to write…

BY SOPHIA ROUMELIOTIS’20 STAFF WRITER Grouplove is an indie-pop band consisting of five members: three who are both vocalists and instrumentalists and two who are instrumentalists.They’ve had a consistent happy-go-lucky sound since 2010 and recently released their new album, Big Mess, on September 9. This album can be a bit unconventional, mixing familiar dance vibes with the occasional unconventionally edgy guitar riff. Here are four of the best songs from the album:     Good Morning This…

By KALINA SAWYER’18 MANAGING EDITOR What started out as one student’s “hobby” is now a hub of discovery for music lovers. Fatima Hasan ‘18 recently founded The Good Music Collectiv, “an online music media company that is inspired by electronic music.” An incorporated LLC as of June 2017, the Collective features “written coverage on relevant news, album releases, local shows, festivals across the nation, and artist interviews/spotlights.”Hasan said her business was inspired by her long-held…

By CHRISTIAN METZGER ‘20 STAFF WRITER Remakes of classic films often earn scorn from general audiences, but It, based off Stephen King’s novel of the same name, manages to trump its predecessor in spades. Perhaps the biggest godsend of the remake is time—the original It is just over three hours long while the remake is only an hour and thirty minutes, and with the original you feel every minute. Part of that is the sloppy…

BY MATT DEMIRS ‘18 EDITOR IN CHIEF One could say the Lake Forest College art department added a Swiss Army Knife to their list of faculty this semester. The mixed-media artist and new assistant professor of sculpture and expanded media, David Sanchez Burr, has worked in a variety of disciplines from sound to sculpture, to painting and engineering, and everything in between, making him a man of many talents. The number of skills Burr developed…