The New Taylor Swift Album is… Good.
Like a little bit. Kinda. by Max Miller Staff Writer art by Olive Polken This review was supposed to be almost purely criticism. After...
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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
- Nov 7, 2022
Detroit Bootytech Legend DJ Assault Actually Gets Oberlin to Shake its Ass
by Saffron Forsberg Editor-in-Chief art by Saffron Forsberg Until last Friday, when DJ Assault finally found his way to the ‘Sco, I...
- Oct 14, 2022
Unheard-of//Ensemble Plays the Birenbaum
By Orson Abram Contributor Unheard-of//Ensemble, the Brooklyn-based contemporary classical music-based chamber ensemble — consisting of...
- Oct 14, 2022
CONCERT REVIEW: Jeffrey Lewis at the ‘Sco 10/7/2022
By Catie Kline Staff Writer On Friday night, almost exactly 16 years after he first performed in Tappan Square in 2006, antifolk...
- Oct 14, 2022
$oul $old $eparately Album Review
By Max Miller Staff Writer Freddie Gibbs’ $oul $old $eparately is a strange one. It seems to have been met with the coveted combination...
- Oct 14, 2022
Ethel Cain, Persona Theater, and the Tragic Allure of White Working-Class Femininity
By Saffron Forsberg Editor-in-Chief CW: brief mention of eating disorders, physical abuse She may not like me saying so, but it seems...
- Oct 14, 2022
Dirty Blonde; or, The Late-Stage Hollywood Biopic
By Zach Terrillion Staff Writer 1 hour and 45 minutes into Blonde, Netflix’s new 2 hour and 46 minute fictionalized biography of Marilyn...
- Oct 14, 2022
Rhiannon Giddens (OC ‘00) Graces Finney Chapel with Franceso Turrisi
By Saffron Forsberg Editor-in-Chief Despite the heft of her accolades, Rhiannon Giddens still worries you may flee during the show’s...
- Oct 14, 2022
For Edmonia: Visiting Artist yétúndé ọlágbajú Comes to Oberlin
By Skye Jalal Staff Writer At Oberlin, it can be easy to forget just how old these buildings are. This past week, yétúndé ọlágbajú...
- Sep 12, 2022
Habibi Funk, Hamid El Shaeri, and The SLAM! Years
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer art by Martina Taylor [originally published June 3, 2022] Of all the numerous treasures unearthed by Habibi...
- Sep 11, 2022
A Trip to the Grape’s Archives: Vintage Porno Reviews and the Sports Section
by Anna Holshouser-Belden Staff Writer A page from a 2006 edition of The Grape [originally published May 20, 2022] Whether this is your...
- Sep 11, 2022
Interview with Vikram Perry: The Trials and Tribulations of a Barrows RA
by Cal Ransom Contributor Vikram Perry [originally published May 20, 2022] Vikram Perry (they/them), a fourth-year history and musical...
- Sep 10, 2022
Arcade Fire and the Importance of (Not) Being (Too) Earnest
by Fionna Farrell Staff Writer [originally published May 20, 2022] Because it is populated by humans, it seems that the earth is very...
- Sep 10, 2022
CONCERT REVIEW: Helado Negro @ The ‘Sco, 5/7/22
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer art by Henley Childress, photo courtesy of Helado Negro's Twitter [originally published May 20, 2022] Though...
- Sep 10, 2022
“I Just Wanna Make Dumb Shit”: an Interview with Comedian Patti Harrison
by Juli Freedman & Teagan Hughes Bad Habits Editor & Staff Writer art by Amelia Connelly [originally published May 20, 2022] When I...
- Jul 13, 2022
WOBC vault picks with Levi Dayan, host of Everything is Improvisation
by Teagan Hughes Staff Writer Free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor [originally published May 9, 2022] The couch on the south wall of the WOBC...
- Jul 13, 2022
DJ Kopano Talks Musical Curation and Decentering the White Gaze
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer [originally published May 9, 2022] If you’ve been to a show or a house party at Oberlin in the past few...
- Jul 13, 2022
Perspectives on Current and Not-so-current Happenings in Occupied Palestine
by Zane Badawi Contributor [originally published May 9, 2022] Recent events have gotten me thinking about my dad’s time in Gaza when I...
- Jul 5, 2022
Long Live Nipsey Hussle
By Jason Hewitt Staff Writer [originally published April 12, 2019] On March 31st, the world lost a real one. That’s one of the best ways...
- Jul 1, 2022
The Bleary Radicalism of Billy Woods’ Aethiopes
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer Aethiopes album cover [originally published April 22, 2022] From the very first moments, it feels like the...
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