Star Studded: Covenant College’s Hello Dolly Production

The long-awaited musical production Hello! Dolly first made its appearance on stage in the beginning of February first, with its beautifully crafted canvas backdrop, hand painted by members of the art and theater departments, and then later with the rest of the set and props. The cast was jam-packed with amazing talent from across the departments, including many alumni who came back for the opportunity to star in this show. Hello! Dolly was directed by Professor Claire Slavovsky in the theater department, with music direction by Professor David Tahere in the music department, and costumes designed by Courtney McKenzie.

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Puss and Boots

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” by DreamWorks is a stellar work of animation and storytelling that came out of absolutely nowhere. As the sequel to the original Puss in Boots released in 2011, it surpassed all expectations and turned out to be a genuine masterpiece of a film that blows most other animated movies out of the water. 

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Avatar: The Way of Water

"Avatar: The Way of the Water" was supposed to be the next big hit, but for me, the three-hour twelve-minute film was underdeveloped in its storytelling and lackluster in its character development …. Don't get me wrong, the special effects were top-notch and the world of Pandora was as stunning as ever. However, the connection to characters in the first movie just did not carry over into this sequel. Jake Sully, the main character of the first movie transformed and created a bond with audiences and was built into an incredible character. Unfortunately, this second installment fails to give the beloved character any further development, depth or purposeful story; instead it offers only meaningless filler.

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Winsten the Turtle

Should you take a stroll down to Jackson Pond, you might find a caravan of critters recently discovered by the biology department. A cousin of the desert tortoise, the Pumpkin turtles are native to the south and some valleys of the north in the Americas. They only come out for 2-5 months of the year to enjoy the fall festivities: drinking cider, snuggling in the fallen leaves, apple bobbing, and everything else (except pumpkin carving. That’s considered offensive).

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The Most Reluctant Convert

On the evening of Monday January 3, the English department hosted a showing of “The Most Reluctant Convert,” a film reprisal of C.S. Lewis’ partial autobiography “Surprised By Joy.” Students from across campus gathered in Sanderson 215 for a night of dining on popcorn with garlic salt, sipping earl grey tea and seeing the life of a great Christian writer portrayed on the “big screen.”

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Poetry

Title: Distance Wears a Blue Jacket


a leap

as i grip my blue dress

my white arms

sway above concrete steps

weathered


i am blue

i am wind

i am a creature of distance

for I covered it

with blue




Title: What is it Like to be Loved?


Flora

My body sways to nothing at all

This is lace

This is tea

Soon my face is cupped in warm hands

Debussy knew how that felt

Eyes gentle with blue water

The dusk that glazes the infatuating house pink

Conjures the kind of pantomime rapture that persuades me

Now I am flower-picking

The flowers whose colors are haunting

More Than Dynamite

There is a lot of truth to the bit that Chris and Hannah did to introduce the KPOP act for CultureFest. What is the first thing people associate with KPOP other than the fact that it isn’t in English? Globally revered boy group BTS or 방탄소년단 who have risen to the tops of the charts since their debut in 2013 are widely recognised as the standard of KPOP in most of the western world.

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