Q&A with author Elizabeth Charlebois

Q&A with author Elizabeth Charlebois

Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Charlebois Tracy Wamarema ‘28wamarematwa@lakeforest.edu Staff Writer Elizabeth Charlebois is an author and English professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.  She co-authored Hip Hop Hamlet in collaboration with incarcerated performers at the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, Missouri. The play was a part of the Prison Performing Arts program. A week after her talk, Bard Behind Bars at Lake Forest College in March 2025, I met with her over Zoom…

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Exploring A.I., equity through Ragdale

Exploring A.I., equity through Ragdale

Caleb Pope ‘27popecse95@lakeforest.edu Staff Writer Lake Forest College is partnering with Ragdale, an artist residency program, to explore artificialintelligence (AI) and how it intersects with equity and social justice through their work.The HUMAN Residency Fellowship is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the MellonFoundation in New York. The fellowship is designed to explore artificial intelligence through ahumanities perspective, equipping students with the skills to ethically integrate AI into theirprofessional lives. The partnership is led…

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Spring fashion at Lake Forest College

Spring fashion at Lake Forest College

Atala Johnson ‘28 johnsonael@lakeforest.edu JOUR 320 Writer dden under layers of winter clothing, Lake Forest is about to trade in its puffer coats and reveal a new fashion season. But what you see in town will probably differ from what you find on campus.   For Chrissy Davis, a business developer at a women’s fashion boutique, the Lake Forest Shop, her trend predictions for this spring are a nod to the styles emerging in New York. On the…

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Pilar: from technology to Techno-Tamaladas

Pilar: from technology to Techno-Tamaladas

Eddie Coardos ’26coardoseem@lakeforest.eduJOUR 320 Writer In a recent visit to journalism classes at Lake Forest College, Colombian performance artist and scholar Praba Pilar presented her most innovative approach to art and AI. Since 2017, her project Nixtamalizate-te-te has combined modern technology such as artificial intelligence with indigenous technologies to create sculptures, photography, and community projects.  Her objective is to show the public how “contaminated” our world has become due to reliance on technology and highlight…

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Film Review: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Film Review: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Rating: 3/5 Jacqueline Toledo Soto ’24Staff Writertoledosotoj@lakeforest.edu Mr. and Mrs. Smith premiered on Amazon Prime on February 2, 2024. Donald Glover plays John Smith, and Maya Erskine plays Jane Smith. The show is a spin-off of the 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The story revolves around a married couple who turned out to be assassins who were ordered to kill the same target—each other. The Amazon Prime show…

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New Artist Alert: Yellow Days

New Artist Alert: Yellow Days

Emerging in November with the release of a twenty-five minute EP titled Harmless Melodies, Yellow Days transports your ears and brain into an airy, psychedelic, and even ominous soundscape. His voice has a pleasant deepness and a raspiness that makes his delivery sound as if the music were coming from a record player. There is undoubtedly jazz and blues influence in both the melodies of his songs, as well as the content of his lyrics….

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