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While her teammates were at the D.C. Challenge Tournament at George Washington University bonding and gaining their footing, Olivia Wassner was playing overseas for the Switzerland National Volleyball Team in the European Championship.
Though it took longer than most in attendance expected, the AU volleyball team extended their winning streak to seven games on Tuesday night, improving their season record to 14-7.
Indie rock group Wilco brought their vast, 11-album discography to The Anthem on Oct. 15 for their “Ode to Joy” tour.
AU’s volleyball team has propelled itself to a 3-1 conference start as the Eagles swept the Bucknell Bison in three sets on All-American Weekend.
AU volleyball lost its final match against Temple, concluding the team’s up and down weekend at the American Volleyball Classic on Saturday.
Emmy-award winning game show host and comedian Ben Bailey will perform at DC Comedy Loft on Friday and Saturday.
Pop star Hayley Kiyoko will headline AMFest, an arts and music festival, at American University on Saturday, April 20, the AU Student Government Student Union Board announced Wednesday.
Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” will perform in the Tavern on Saturday, Jan. 26, the Student Union Board announced this week. Doors for the event will open at 6:30 p.m.
Jack Rasmussen is the University’s central figure in the D.C. arts scene, due in large part to his role as the director and curator of the AU Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
Early fall exhibitions, arts and crafts, an interactive mural and more were on display on Sept. 29 at the Katzen Arts Center as the museum took part in D.C.’s citywide one-night art festival event, Art All Night.
On Saturday Aug. 25, producer and DJ Metro Boomin offered up his talents for Bender Arena as the headliner for Student Union Board’s Welcome Week concert. The show was opened by Shiva, who performed a DJ set, and local DMV rapper Kelow LaTesha. Metro opened his set with one of his most famous productions, “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1” by Kanye West.
“I still think I’m kind of underground.”
AU seniors in the theater and musical theater programs aim to provide fun and enlightening themes this weekend as they present their capstone project, an original work titled “Un/Done: A Theatrical Odyssey.”
If you walk through the hallways of the Katzen Arts Center, you may hear familiar lines of Shakespeare’s works. It’s the AU Rude Mechanicals rehearsing for an upcoming play.
An American University student was struck by a car Tuesday night and is in critical condition.
University President Sylvia Burwell released a statement Tuesday morning addressing the discovery of eight anti-immigration flyers on campus Monday.
Dec. 1 marked AU Photo Collective’s fourth exhibition, Distressed and Distorted, at Studio 1469, located in the heart of Columbia Heights. Last semester’s theme was Vibrancy, so the turn to Distressed and Distorted is a noticeably important change.
My high school psychology teacher once explained alternative music as “guys with guitars in tight jeans singing about their ex-girlfriends.” It is hard to say that the French alt-rock band Phoenix doesn’t fit this criteria, but to pigeonhole them would be missing the bigger picture of their discography. Their latest album, “Ti Amo,” is a language hopping summer album, upbeat yet laid back in tone and style, that rides background guitar and foreground pop synth.
AU’s literary scene has a lot to look forward to this year, including a slew of new books by AU professors. These books span a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from the political far right youth in Germany all the way to childhood development issues facing the U.S.. The Eagle has compiled a great reading list from three of AU’s five schools, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Communication and the School of Public Affairs, just in time for summer reading.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers paid a visit to a sold-out Verizon Center on April 12, putting on a show celebrating a majority of the band’s discography. The band continued its tour in promotion of 2016’s “The Getaway” but, of course, did not forget about its timeless hits.
