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David Schraub: Project Runway Season 10: Designer Notes
We're back with a new season of Project Runway! Can any of this season's designers compete with the awesomeness that was Anya? Nope -- let's get that out of the way right now. But still, it looks like...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Comic Con And Beyond: 18 Mesmerizing Costumes
[ By Marc in Gadgets & Geekery & Travel & Places. ] The elevation of Comic Con from a niche event for super dorks into a stage for the launch of national products and films, has had one...
View ArticleTom Swift: Meat Market
It’s not necessarily coming to a theater near you, but if you have the chance, check out this film. Recommended for anyone who eats.
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Volleyball: Knights Collect AVCA Team Academic Award
The Carleton College volleyball team earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s (AVCA) Team Academic Award once again, the 10th time in the last 11 years that the Knights earned the accolade....
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Kevin Draper '10: The Slipperiest of Slopes - Proudly Presented To You by Adidas
Earlier this week the NBA Board of Governors held their annual summer meeting to discuss the state of the association, debate possible rule changes, and bask in the glory of being full-fledged 1%ers....
View ArticleTom Swift: A Blurb About a Blurb
“I can’t think of a better match between biographer and subject. Like the man he continues to so capably chronicle, Norman Macht is astute, authoritative, and meticulous. If you want to learn about...
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Jonathan Lin '13: SCENES | To Dye in Rural China
July 21st 2012 菊豆 /Ju Dou (1990) by Zhang Yimou Titling a film by the name of a central character usually means we'll be deeply invested in their psychology and livelihoods, constantly sitting on...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday, July...
A very Jeremy Lin-themed bathroom reader. It's a slam dunk!The Legend of Leremy Jin, James Leland Dolan and Carmelo McAnthonyTerry K. ParkHyphenIf Voltaire had witnessed Linsanity, he might've written...
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John Tischer '71: Bad Dog
I tell the truth No one likes that… I’m a bad dog. Trained to the truth Sniffing out deception I’m a bad dog. Don’t mess with me I’m junkyard bad Full of love. Your ideas are wrong That’s why I love...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Meet the Deadline: 20 Abandoned Payphones
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] Payphones appear to be following the Pony Express down the well-worn path of obsolete technologies and their ubiquitous appearance in urban...
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Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Harvest of Summer Bounty - Plant Nation - Pejuta...
Over the years at the Family Cabins near Pelican Lake, I would harvest choke cherries, pin cherries and other fruits from the land. One of my fun memories is making jelly with Winnie Leonard, our...
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Jonathan Lin '13: SCENES | Gotham's Rising Hero
July 22nd 2012 The Dark Knight Rises (2012) by Christopher Nolan Heroism is steadily becoming an overrated profession these days. No one gives you the respect warranted by your deeds and...
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David Ocker '73: The Peter Schmid Quartet Plays Maximum Wage
Last year I posted two tracks of my music as performed by the pianist Peter Schmid and his buddies. They're as close to an all-psychic musical ensemble as you could hope for. The tunes were called...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: New generation for reform as well
Several recent reports from China have emphasized how the power and wealth of several generations of an entrenched elite are putting a lid on political change in China. Now, Michael Wines, writing in...
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John Tischer '71: Watching A Video Of My Teacher
Watching a video of my teacher,Vidyadhara the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche,I realized that every gesture, every movement, every word that came out of his mouthwas not motivated by anyonebeing...
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Margaret Taylor: events_book_cover_1
Hi, all. Just thought you might like to know that I’m guest-posting over on The Mad Reviewer today on Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books. Check it out!
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