What do you get when you combine artistic vision with a college portfolio and a few students at Choate? You get a movie project like Elle Rinaldi’s ’17, the writer, director, and visionary of the her own film, which will premiere this winter. Rinaldi said, not long ago, “I’m reallyRead More

Combining science and art to inspire her students, Ms. Jessica Cuni has been teaching visual arts at Choate for three years. Ms. Cuni’s original plan was to be a doctor when she graduated from Swarthmore College with a biology degree. “I started pretty late in life as an artist,” sheRead More

Last Friday, I set aside my pile of schoolwork to indulge in an evening performance of Ron Howard’s new documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years, at the Madison Art Cinemas. It was a spontaneous trip to the theater; I had originally planned to spend theRead More

You’re broke, you’re bored, and you’re dying to get off campus. You think to yourself, “What could possibly make my uneventful weekend stimulating enough for an appealing Instagram post?” Dear readers, fear not. A four-hour trip to New Haven may not be the first item on your list of choices,Read More

Arts Concentration, one of Choate’s most well-known and widely respected signature programs, accepts a small number of students every year. A majority of the accepted artists tend to be incoming juniors or sophomores, so it is rare for students to start their Arts Con careers entering senior year. Sophie BallRead More

On Saturday, September 24, members of the Choate Chamber Chorus piled onto a school bus full of music stands, overloaded backpacks, and multiple speakers playing at once. The bus was bound for The Wisdom House, a conference and retreat center situated on 70 acres of land in the woods ofRead More

On Friday, September 16, legendary playwright and Choate alum Edward Albee ’46 passed away quietly in his home in Montauk, New York. The death of the 88-year-old playwright, a winner of three Pulitzer Prizes and two Tony Awards, has left the world feeling numb. From the moment he first steppedRead More

It was an amazing surprise to see the walls of the Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC) full of new and unseen art when students walked into Choate’s annual registration at the beginning of the year. To many people’s surprise, however, the art was not student-made this time. It was createdRead More

Sherman Alexie’s Flight intertwines themes of estrangement, vengeance, and mercy through the main character Zits’s time-traveling escapades. Over the summer, Choate students were able to follow Zits in his adventures, but not everyone enjoyed the ride. While some students were impressed with Zits’s intelligence and thought his narrative was theRead More