Toward a New City
For those of you who read my last piece, this week is about another Jane. Thanks to an elective I’m taking, my life has been filled with ideas about cities, and the way we
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BITCHES BREW, OR THE BIRTH OF JAZZ FUSION
In April 1970, Miles Davis released “Bitches Brew,” which completely changed the direction of the jazz movement and resulted in the formation of many jazz fusion bands As someone who worked at the frontier
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ego cogito, ego sum
ALP RODOPLU (HIST/MA) [Preliminary. It had always been his mother’s dream to have her family live under the same roof. Perhaps dream is too strong a word here — let’s hear this in terms
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What’s It Like to Be at Bilkent?
BY NAZ AKYOL (IR/IV) Name: Maheen Aziz Department: International Relations Age: 22 Home Country: Pakistan First Sentence in Turkish: Naber Kanki? What is your experience of spending time in Ankara and at Bilkent University? I’ve
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Clocking Dreams
As a person who loves reading and writing, I’ve been surprisingly ignorant about other forms of art as a means of storytelling. I’ve always thought of books as the ultimate way of telling stories,
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GASHUNK!
I am, suffice it to say, unwell. I had intended to celebrate Halloween, as usual, by going on a week-long horror binge that would hopefully deliver me from the hanging sense of dread associated
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Musical Journey of an Underground Singer-Songwriter
Chelsea Wolfe is a gothic, doom and folk music-influenced singer-songwriter from California. What makes her special and brings her to our “music recommendations” is her ambition in experimenting. She has released four LPs, each
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