Arts
Books, Movies, and PlaysCA Hosts the First-Ever 24 Hour Film Festival
Concord Academy has always been a school built on both academics and arts. However, during the pandemic, it has been difficult to express the...
Pretend It’s a City Review
“Do I look welcoming to you?” This is how Fran Lebowitz would respond to you if you are a tourist who’s standing on the street, holding a map, and...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream
You may have already heard the title Friday Night Lights before. After all, it is the title of both a movie and an NBC television series that ran...
A Student Artist’s Perspective on CA Art Show: Interview with Roger Ge ’21
On Wednesday, February 10th, Concord Academy held the Fall Art Show, exhibiting students’ art pieces for their peers, teachers, and parents to see. ...
The Silence of the Lambs 30 Years Later
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE 1991 FILM The Silence of the Lambs Hello, Clarice. Few horror films have entered the cultural...
OJ Slaughter’s Event With the Peabody Essex Museum
OJ Slaughter is a Black Queer artist who uses photography as their preferred medium of expression. Their work has been included in many prominent...
Visual Arts Classes During the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has changed Concord Academy’s courses drastically. Visual arts classes are among the ones that had to change the most....
A Beginner’s Review of From the Neck Up: An Illustrated Guide to Hatmaking
One rarely finds a book review of a reference book. The review industry holds a stigma against them, as the modern conception of “reference book”...
The (American) Movies of 2020
2020 was an odd year for movies. Cinemas closed; festivals were canceled; an entire world of film shifted virtual. Almost every anticipated...
CA’s HUE and Classism
CA’s fashion club CAFE has in recent months created its website, HUE. CAFE’s Co-Head, Carter Wood ’22, described HUE as a platform used to explore...
Performances through Zoom
In previous years at Concord Academy, there would be countless performing arts productions, ranging from music performances in the chapel, mainstage...
Winter Recipe: Cardamom Knots
Image Courtesy of Isabella Ginsburg '23 Dough ½ cup all purpose flour 2 ¼ cup strong white bread flour ¼ cup granulated sugar ⅔ cup milk, warmed...
An Interview with Zachary Tung ’22 About the Winter Mainstage
Despite the current circumstances brought by the pandemic, the Concord Academy Performing Arts Department is still putting on a Winter Mainstage...
Mank Review
Citizen Kane is one of the most important and influential films in American history. Whether you find its story exhilarating to watch or are bored...
The Platform Review
As customers nowadays fight for food and toilet paper in grocery stores all over the world, the Spanish sci-fi movie The Platform illustrates a much...
Movie Review: American Honey
The 2016 movie American Honey follows Star, played by Sasha Lane, and a band of teens as they travel the United States selling magazine...
Remembering Sean Connery
On October 31, 2020, Sir Sean Connery was found dead in Nassau in the Bahamas. After struggling with dementia for years, the 90-year old actor...
Baltimore Preview: Relevant or Limiting
This time last year, the cast and crew of A Midsummer Night’s Dream were deep in production. Due to COVID-19, Concord Academy’s long standing...