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IN PHOTOS: Winter weather 2024-25

1 month ago | vanderbilthustler.com | Ophelia Lu |Alex Brodeur |Isabella Bautista |Jo Anderson

Time at home, travel and the Zeppos Tower sum up the winter season for our Photography Section staffers. Mar 5, 2025 From the break between semesters to a January snow day back on campus and everything in between, saying hello to spring is as bittersweet as the goodbye to winter. This winter break, I traveled to Japan with my family. I spent several days in Kyoto visiting temples and shrines. Luckily, it was not peak tourism season. The city was beautiful and quiet, waiting for its first snow.
Manning Fireworks’: MJ Lenderman opens tour with electrifying performance at Brooklyn Bowl

2 months ago | vanderbilthustler.com | Alex Brodeur

Indie rock musician MJ Lenderman and his touring band, The Wind, kicked off their 2025 tour at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, performing a setlist that featured Lenderman’s hit songs and his entire recent album, “Manning Fireworks.” Throughout the night, Lenderman and The Wind put on an incredible show while receiving lots of support from their fans.
IN PHOTOS: A look at McGill’s monthly coffeehouse

Nov 7, 2024 | vanderbilthustler.com | Alex Brodeur

Once a month, McGill Hall organizes a coffeehouse that brings together a group of students who perform various songs and tell stories. For the October coffeehouse, titled “The Annual Transylvanian Convention,” students sang along to a number of classic hit songs and listened intently to poems and Halloween-themed stories. Performers on stage throughout the evening included members of the project who live in McGill Hall and some members who don’t, the latter of whom are known as satellite members.
Vampire Weekend’s performance made it feel like a ‘Holiday’ at Ascend Amphitheater

Oct 18, 2024 | vanderbilthustler.com | Alex Brodeur

The band played classic indie rock hits and new album tracks at their first performance in Nashville since 2019. 3 minutes ago Vampire Weekend, an indie rock band from New York City, returned to Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater after five years to perform hits and songs from its newest album, “Only God Was Above Us.” Throughout the night, lead vocalist Ezra Koenig, guitarist Chris Baio, drummer Chris Tomson and members of their touring band delivered a remarkable performance for their fans.
IN PHOTOS: A beauti-fall break

Oct 17, 2024 | vanderbilthustler.com | George Albu |Naomi Alvarado |Isabella Bautista |Alex Brodeur

Staffers turn over new leaves with a few days away from classes. 4 minutes ago From a mock Stars Hollow to the Rocky Mountains, photography staffers share how they captured fall break on camera. Lindsay Glaccum, Staff PhotographerThis fall break, I was fortunate enough to visit the beautiful city of Sedona, Arizona, which is famous for its red rocks. As someone who grew up in a humid, forested area, I was surprised by the natural beauty of the desert.
‘Gloss’: A look at the first video art exhibition in Nashville

Oct 5, 2024 | vanderbilthustler.com | George Albu |Alex Brodeur

Tucked away on Vanderbilt’s Peabody Campus, Cohen Memorial Hall houses the Vanderbilt University Museum of Art, which is currently presenting its newest exhibition, “Gloss: A Measured Response to New Video Art.” The museum, which is currently in the process of becoming accredited under the American Alliance of Museums, has been hosting the exhibition for the past month. The exhibition features 10 displays of video art created in the past decade. Rachel P.
Croatia Checklist Part 2

Mar 8, 2024 | medium.com | Alex Brodeur

In part one, you read about an unfortunate set of events that led me to live off the grid in a foreign country. Below are five personal suggestions based on this experience. SuggestionsPrint out documentsBefore you leave, have a printed copy of anything you might need. That includes your passport, plane tickets, bus tickets, hostel or hotel payment confirmations, and anything else that’s imperative to your trip. The only ones I had were my passport and return plane ticket.
Living off the Grid in a Foreign Country

Mar 8, 2024 | medium.com | Alex Brodeur

Cell phones have been ingrained in our daily lives. They’re also essential when we travel; they store our plane tickets and hotel reservations. We message our loved ones back home and use Google Maps to get around. It’s difficult to imagine now how we’d manage without one. Luckily, you don’t have to because I went through it. This is my experience living off the grid in a foreign country for ten days. BackgroundIn September of 2017, I planned my first solo ten-day backpacking trip to Croatia.
IN PHOTOS: Thankful for a Break

Nov 28, 2023 | vanderbilthustler.com | Barrie Barto |Josh Rehders |Ophelia Lu |Alex Brodeur

Staffers shared appreciation for everything from family pets to the beauty of nature on their Thanksgiving breaks this season as they begin to hunker down for the final three weeks of the semester. Barrie Barto, Photography DirectorI spent Thanksgiving this year in South Carolina. The slow pace of life on the coast helped me rest from the bustle of being a Vanderbilt student. I flew back to Tennessee early to catch the football game against the University of Tennessee.