Cecily Carlisle
Cecily Carlisle
Recent Stories
Fleeting
Personal Essay
My mother kept lovers the way most people keep dogs: well-groomed and outside the house. I didn’t start to catch on ‘til I was ten.
CARLISLE: Rape without ‘rapists’
I’ll admit it: When I began reading Julia Fisher’s column in Thursday’s News, I was expecting to be offended. Her first sentence is bombastic, and her first paragraph is not only sarcastic, but misleading.
Language and sound
From Modern Love dance parties to slam poetry, we are no stranger to filling rhythms with our own voices and movements. But what happens when these rhythms are themselves a conversation with listeners? The product of DJ J. Period, best known for his work with Kanye West and Mary J. Blige and Somalia’s award-winning hip-hop artist K’NAAN, “The Messengers” sets out to push the boundaries of notation and noise-making, scripture and instrumentation.
Rubin ’99 talks urban design
The term “city” might typically conjure up images of sidewalks and high-rises, but for School of Architecture professor Elihu Rubin ’99, an urban environment is defined by “the interaction of three faces”: its physical environment, its social context and the power of its institutions.