Oberlin Alumni Magazine
Cat Batch Fever
June 21, 2023
Hanna Raskin ’98
According to the cookie recipe tacked to a wall of the Cat in the Cream , one tablespoon of molasses can be substituted for one cup of sugar. But when Hillel Hinton-Williams is working at Oberlin...
Feels on Wheels
June 21, 2023
G.M. Donley ’83
“I’m embarrassed to admit it, but it was a huge relief,” he recalls. “I hated riding that thing.” In his fourth year, Bisker inherited a broken-down family bike that had...
The Golden Age of Obiewood
May 30, 2023
Annie Zaleski
Oberlin creatives have the talent to make it in Hollywood. Now they have the network too.
John Lewis Talks Jazz
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet talks jazz and more in a 1956 radio interview with Jim Neumann ’58, host of “Jazz Hot and Cool!” on WOBC.
Meet Joe Smith
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine Staff
Joe Smith ’86 learned to meet people through his love of photography. As an Oberlin student in the 1980s, he took hundreds of images that capture—through mostly straight-ahead portraits—the look of an era, and sometimes more.
On the Record with Rhiannon Giddens ’00
January 24, 2023
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
Rhiannon Giddens began 2022 with a starring role in Porgy and Bess, the iconic Gershwin opera often criticized for its derogatory depictions of Black characters. The widely hailed production...
Rhiannon Giddens’ American Tunes
January 24, 2023
Jeff Hagan ’86
A 2000 graduate of Oberlin, Giddens was trained as an opera singer under Marlene Rosen, and so the opera part is easy to understand. But it was after she returned home to North Carolina that she took...
Still Hot, Still Cool
January 24, 2023
Erich Burnett
To some, jazz signaled a decadent departure from the European masters who had inspired the work of conservatory faculty and students for more than a century. But there were also students smitten by...
