Culture

  • 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

    “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

    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…

  • Clowes Hall Installs New Sensory Seating

    VANESSA STAUBLIN | Staff Reporter Those in the hard-of-hearing and deaf communities will now get to experience sound on a whole new level during performances at Clowes Memorial Hall. Clowes Hall installed eight new chairs that are designed to enhance concert experiences. These seats are considered “audio sensory enhanced seating.” They are the first ones…

  • Gallery Preserves Legacy of Master Photogtapher

    BRITTANY GARRETT | Staff Reporter In a floodlit gallery, more than 80 photographs transport passing visitors into a black and white world of beauty and natural elegance. These photographs were hand-picked by their photographer Ansel Adams and hang in the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. “A bulk of the works are images…