Photos By Amy Street
From “Arts, Etc.” to “Culture”
BRITTANY GARRETT bgarrett@butler.edu CULTURE EDITOR Young adults lounging in late summer air with novels in their hands, two runners giving each other high fives as they pass, peers rushing to retrieve the scattered items from a woman’s dropped bag. These are not scenes from a utopian-based film. They are realities witnessed from a gazebo…
Marine band music man comes to direct
TYLER WAGNER twagner@bumail.edu STAFF REPORTER There’s not yet a table prepared for visiting students in Col. Michael J. Colburn’s office. There’s only a lonely set of chairs, but experience already hangs in bulk on the walls, and ornate awards of every imaginable size garnish the shelves, seemingly multiplying with each swivel of the head.…
Literature comes alive with Visiting Writers Series
SARAH COFFING scoffing@butler.edu ASST. CULTURE EDITOR More than 400 of the world’s best writers have come to Butler University since 1989 to participate in the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. The program’s goal stays the same this year: to allow Butler students and the Indianapolis community the experience of a lifetime—to hear from…
“Dance is a universal language” Members of Butler Ballet tour Europe
EMMA EDICK eedick@butler.edu STAFF REPORTER An American-themed pizza restaurant, with walls decked in Route 66 signs and Top 40 Radio playing in the background, is where Butler Ballet ate one night last May. But this was not down the street in Indianapolis; this was the first night they arrived in Poznan, Poland. After…
Take one down, pass it around, 131 beers on tap
HALEY BAAS hbaas@butler.edu Staff Reporter A crowd of Broad Ripple bar-goers lines up to try out Broad Ripple’s newest bar. The new bar showcases craft beer, including 50 Indiana beers and 50 international beers. HopCat boasts the title of Indiana’s largest beer bar with 131 beers on tap. The new bar opened in Broad…
The Butler Ballets
MALLORY DUNCAN AND BREANNA MANLEY | Arts, Etc. Asst. Editor and Staff Reporter The Butler University dance faculty is contemplating adding a sixth ballet to its repertory. The dance department has been rotating five ballets—Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan Lake and Coppélia—for many years. “As a faculty we are trying to enhance what we offer…
Percussionist Presents Final Recital at Butler
VANESSA STAUBLIN | Staff Reporter With drumsticks in hand, senior Eric Sanders marches to the beat of his own drum. Sanders is preparing for his upcoming senior recital Saturday morning in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall. Sanders said this recital is an accumulation of everything he has learned during the past four years at Butler University.…
English Department Hires Documentarian
BRITTANY GARRETT | Staff Reporter Butler University’s English department has hired accomplished screenwriter Alix Lambert to teach screenwriting courses. The English department made a recognizable stride with the opening of the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing in 2012, and now it is building on that achievement. According to Lambert’s website, pinkghettoproductions.com, her most recent event…
Welcome to Arts, Etc. – Why Are You Here?
KEVIN VOGEL | Arts, Etc. Editor When I took over the Arts section in 2012, I posed a question to you, dear reader: Why are you here? Why are you reading this section today? I gave you my thoughts on what the “et cetera” in this section’s title meant for you and me, our staff…