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The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The Performing Arts Department will update AACC’s music degree, adding classes that focus on recording technology and sound production.

AACC updates music degree, adds new classes

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

The Performing Arts Department will offer a new associate of arts degree in music, replacing the old one, starting this fall. The new degree requires students to take more of the music classes that will...

The cast and crew of "Hurricane Diane" prepares for their January performance at their first rehearsal.

Theatre preps for January “Hurricane Diane” staged reading

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief December 12, 2023

Theatre AACC will perform a staged reading of the comedy “Hurricane Diane” in January. The performance, which will run Jan. 19 and 20 at 7 p.m., is a dark comedic take on climate change by playwright...

Kain Lakis, who plays drums for an alternative grunge-inspired group called "Fire Escape," is one of several students on campus who plays in bands.

Students perform in off-campus rock bands

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor November 29, 2023

The classmate sitting next to you in math class could be the next rock ‘n’ roll superstar. AACC students who have their own bands off campus say a lot of time and effort goes into being in a band...

Steve Konopelski, a first-year communications student, performs in a regional production of “Guys and Dolls,” one of multiple shows he has appeared in.

Ex-Broadway dancer is COM student now

Rebecca Merkel, Reporter November 6, 2023

A first-year communications student is also a three-time Broadway dancer and the winner of a Food Network cooking show. Steve Konopelski, 46, danced in the Broadway productions of “Hot Feet” in 2006,...

Professional casting director Brette Goldstein will teach students how to succeed in the acting industry in an event on Oct. 12. 
Photo courtesy of Brette Goldstein.

Casting director to speak at AACC

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief October 4, 2023

A professional casting director will talk to students about “all the s**t that no one will ever tell you about the industry” in an event on Oct. 12. Brette Goldstein, who has worked as a casting...

Students say they would recommend Starfield, the latest video game from Bethesda Softworks, which released on Sept. 5.

Students give video game ‘Starfield’ thumbs-up

Jason Kalshoven, Reporter September 27, 2023

Students are checking out the new video game “Starfield,” which is the latest title from Bethesda Softworks, the publishers of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” Released on Sept. 5, “Starfield”...

AACC's black box shows--which students write, direct and act in--will begin production this semester. Shown, the cast of AACC's "Twelve Angry Jurors" rehearses for the November production of their mainstage show.

Theatre AACC to produce student-written plays

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief September 18, 2023

Theatre AACC will produce four plays entirely written, directed and acted by students starting this fall. Theatre AACC will recruit students this semester to act as the directors and stage managers...

Some students say they spend time on social media that they could be using to study.

TikTok most popular social media at AACC

Andrea Bridgett, Reporter May 2, 2023

AACC students said in March TikTok is their favorite social media platform. In an informal survey of 50 students on campus, 16 said TikTok is their favorite, while 13 said they like Instagram the best....

AACC’s journal for the arts, Amaranth, features student works from creative writing to photography. Shown, last year’s 47th edition.

Literary journal puts out 48th annual issue

Jordan Crymes and Payton Thompson May 1, 2023

The 48th edition of AACC’s student literary journal will come out on May 18. Students can pick up a copy of Amaranth, the journal of literature and arts, on Campus Current newsracks in the Humanities...

Student podcasters like first-year transfer studies student Micah Walker say the production is time consuming but doesn’t cost much money.

Student podcasters create original series

Andrea Bridgett, Reporter April 28, 2023

More than 2,000 listeners follow “Stoppage Time,” a two-year-old podcast by AACC student Joseph Angerome. Fellow student Micah Walker’s podcast, “At Least You’re Not Me,” has fewer fans. To...

Theatre AACC put on "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" this weekend. Shown, AACC alumnus Eliza Geib as Rosencrantz and theater student Cameron Walker as Guildenstern.

Theatre AACC takes existential comedy to the stage

Tomi Brunton, Associate Editor April 14, 2023

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” is my favorite play of all time, and Theatre AACC’s Friday night production of it lived up to my high expectations. Tom Stoppard’s comedic, tragic, existential...

Opera AACC will perform "Pirates of Penzance" from May 19-21. Shown, an Opera AACC rehearsal.

Opera AACC to put on “Pirates of Penzance”

Tomi Brunton, Associate Editor April 13, 2023

Opera AACC will perform the comedic opera “Pirates of Penzance” in May. The company’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1880 show will run May 19-21 in the Kauffman Theater. “It's really...

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