Everyone knows the best films come out closest to the holidays, and this year seems like no exception. November is already seeing a great many fantastic looking films. Here are five notable films that recently opened or will open within the month. 5. “Honey Boy” The screenplay for this film…
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Travel Diaries: Iowa City
I’ve never taken a trip over fall break before. Being from Liberty, I’ve never even gone home because I was home. But after spending the last year at Oxford, where a trip to London or even the European continent was a few hours away, the last couple of months here…
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Locke’s “Here’s the Thing” shows artist’s breadth
Hew Locke’s exhibit “Here’s the Thing” opened at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 12 and goes until Jan. 19, 2020. The exhibit is a collaboration between Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK; Colby College Museum of Art in Maine; and the Kemper Museum in Kansas City. The exhibit is…
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New group of sculptures in historic Liberty bring flair to downtown
On a recent trip to Liberty’s historic town square, you may have noticed several new sculptures. The rotating sculpture display is in its third year. The Liberty Arts Commission, per their website states that “We serve as a catalyst – to support, sustain, and strengthen our community by increasing awareness,…
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Reconsidering taste
I double park in a construction zone because we’re going to be late. Walking up to the theater and the around-the-block crowd, I notice a group of women taking a photo under the marquis and mischievously suggest that while their attention is elsewhere we jump the line. Quickly inside due…
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An in-depth study on diversity within Jewell’s curriculum
Of the 69 required books from Critical Thought and Inquiry (CTI) classes offered at William Jewell College this semester, 47 of their authors are white men, five are men of color, 14 are white women and six are women of color. One text, the Bhagavad-Gita, is of unknown authorship. 131…
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“Queer Eye”: Queerer and Funnier
The Netflix reboot of the 2003-2007 show, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” now renamed simply “Queer Eye” has been a smashing popular success. The show follows the same basic premise: five exuberant and discerning gay men help ill-kept, uncultured and generally schlubby ones redo their lives in the areas…
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Social Justice Book Discussion Group to read “In the Time of Butterflies”
This spring, William Jewell College Library Services will host a Social Justice Book Discussion Group (SJBD) in partnership with the Jewell Theatre Company. The book for this iteration of the group is Julia Alvarez’s 1994 novel “In the Time of the Butterflies.” The group will meet to discuss Parts I…
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Ely soon again to be the place to “b-ely”
In an all-campus email sent Feb. 1, William Jewell College President Dr. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls announced that the school would be launching “Phase One of a comprehensive effort to renovate and redesign our first-year residence halls.” The email explains that through a gift from Mark and Karen Mathes, Liberty residents…
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