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Op-Ed: Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta
Cosmic Picture. SK Films. National Geographic.
By NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED
Friday, May 15, 2009 5:42 AM
This unusual, timely and beautiful film, Journey to Mecca, presents a more sympathetic interpretation of Islam both to the West and to the East.
Bernstein Bares It All
By SANDERS I. BERNSTEIN
Friday, May 01, 2009 4:07 AM
If you have any objections to the settlement struck between Google Books Search and the publishing industry, you better send it out soon. All objections must be postmarked May 5, 2009 or earlier. And objections, of course, are being raised from all sides.
Get Thee To A Nunnelly
By ANDREW F. NUNNELLY
Friday, May 01, 2009 4:20 AM
When Michael Scott (Steve Carrel) of “The Office” talks about paper with that little twinkle in his eye, I admit I get a little choked up. Like Michael, I have an affinity for paper, and I love to hold it in my hands. That’s what she said.
Johnson Does Noir
'Nobody Move' by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
By RYAN J. MEEHAN
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
“When she got to her feet, the knees of her pants were frayed and bits of gravel clung to the fabric, but she didn’t brush them clean or in any other way distract her focus from the figure kneeling on the opposite bank. The dark shape across the water grew elongated, also standing. They faced one another with the Feather River in between. In two or three more hours? they would kneel again and drink.”
Food For Thought
By REBECCA A. COOPER
Friday, May 01, 2009 4:21 AM
Carl Ehrlich ’09 has been eating the same burger almost every night for the past four years: a double cheeseburger with pickles, two packets of mustard and two packets of ketchup. Erhlich, captain of Harvard’s football team, a blogger for Go Crimson, and an aspirant novelist with a secondary in philosophy, was also the winner of b. good’s Cousin Oliver contest. He, in other words, is entitled to free burgers from the Dunster Street joint for the rest of his life.
Bader Talks Art
By MINJI KIM
Friday, May 01, 2009 3:34 AM
Do you consider electric fans, postcards, watermelons, and dollar bills art? Darren Bader, a New York-based artist known for his imaginative use of space in installations, thinks so, but he wants to know what you think. Yesterday, Bader engaged with students in a conversation about the definition of contemporary art.
Tricks of the Trade
By MADELEINE M. SCHWARTZ
Friday, May 01, 2009 3:37 AM
Clay D. Miller ’10, President of the Harvard Magic Society, refers to what his society does as “illusions.” Then he pauses. “They’re tricks, not illusions,” he says.
Tackling Textile Myth
Drawing on social theory, student show explores gendered conceptions of textiles
By CANDACE I. MUNROE
Friday, May 01, 2009 1:36 AM
Amy J. Lien ’09 wants to challenge what she calls the commercialized image of textiles, a medium often associated with femininity and domestic life. In order to do so, she has organized an Arts First show featuring student artwork that uses textiles as a point of inspiration. “Latent/Lubricious (Fabrication Methods)” opens tonight in the Adams Art Space.
Belle Époque Humor Amuses in Adams
By ROXANNE J. FEQUIERE
Friday, May 01, 2009 1:39 AM
Norman R. Shapiro ’51 has been affiliated with Adams House for several decades. During the 1940s and 50s, before the college began using randomization to assign student housing, he reveled in the house’s strong artistic community and later became a house tutor.
Student Artists Bring in the Benjamins
By REBECCA A. SCHUETZ
Friday, May 01, 2009 1:40 AM
It isn’t often that struggling college students can make $4000 in a single weekend through legal means. But in the Student Art Show—the first of its kind at Harvard, taking place through May 4—56 student artists from varying sectors of the community will have the opportunity to display and sell their work.
Copland’s Work Celebrated
By MATT E. SACHS
Friday, May 01, 2009 1:35 AM
“Copland is really one of the greats when it comes to American band music in the 21st century,” says Bilal A. Siddiqui ’11, one of the managers of the Harvard University Wind Ensemble. Tomorrow, the Wind Ensemble will perform “Old American Songs of Aaron Copland,” a showcase of songs from the corpus of this renowned American composer in celebration of Arts First.
Performance of Pop’s Past
By SUSIE Y. KIM
Friday, May 01, 2009 1:34 AM
Camera Obscura is an indie pop band. Camerata Obscura is what an indie pop band might have been like back in the Renaissance. “A lot of small playing groups call themselves camerata,” explains Anna H. de Bakker ’10, who sings the alto part in the vocal ensemble, “and we were making a pun.” The program that Camerata Obscura will be presenting on Saturday May 2 at 2:30 at Adolphus Busch Hall, titled “Music of Lament,” showcases music’s ancient past.
‘Hamlet’ with Modernist Influences
By SUSIE Y. KIM
Friday, May 01, 2009 1:42 AM
In the HRDC’s production “The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark,” the cast and crew dare to tamper with the sacred texts of Shakespeare. “Hamlet is this worshipped thing. A lot of Shakespeare’s works are. It’s really quite sad, I think,” says director Jason R. Vartikar ’11.
Portrait in a Crimson Mirror: JOHN ASHBERY ’49
By JESSICA A. SEQUEIRA
Friday, May 01, 2009 3:41 AM
Reading a poem by John Ashbery ’49 for the first time feels like walking into the room of a stranger. The space is mysterious; the language, unfamiliar. There is some sort of order, but it is known only to the owner. Slowly, though, orienting details emerge. Ashbery’s words take on a reassuring rhythm, thrumming steadily, visually, against the walls of the mind. Gradually one gets one’s bearings, locating oneself within the discursive beauty. “How does it feel to be outside and inside at the same time, / The delicious feeling of the air contradicting and secretly abetting / The interior warmth?” asks Ashbery in “The Bungalows,” lines that could apply to his work itself.
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Calories for the Harvard Soul
By REBECCA A. COOPER
Friday, February 27, 2009 12:09 AM
Dear bagel scoopers, Brain Break crumb eaters, steamed broccoli mound-makers: This column is for you.
Around Harvard Square in Foreign Fare
By ALIZA H. AUFRICHTIG and MARIANNE F. KALETZKY
Friday, April 11, 2008 5:42 PM
With spring break already two weeks in the past, our tans have already faded, and we’ve already forgotten most of the inside jokes that inspired the captions in our facebook albums.
Economy Collapses, Artists Start Revolution
By RUBEN L. DAVIS
Friday, February 27, 2009 12:33 AM
By now you’ve probably heard that the world as we know it is spiraling out of control, and no one—not even Savior-In-Chief President Obama—knows what to do. Everyone, from salt-of-the-Earth Middle Americans, to class of 2006 Harvard economics graduates, is losing his job. That more than a few current seniors will likely be spending the coming year living in Mom’s house, “working things out,” has gone from an unspoken reality to a common experience. Who knew a little banking crisis could make such a stir?
TV Is Art--Why Don't You Watch?
By ALLIE T. PAPE
Friday, April 25, 2008 8:47 AM
“I don’t watch TV.” That’s got to be the most common response I hear whenever I get giddy about my favorite subject, and while it isn’t exclusive to Harvard, I encounter it here most often. I’ve never heard any of my classmates say that they don’t see movies, don’t read novels, or don’t like art, but when it comes to the idiot box, the claws come out.
Paging Crichton, 'House' Hurting
The death of Michael Crichton ’64 and the end of his “ER” leaves a void on TV
By ANDREW F. NUNNELLY
Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:28 PM
Nearly buried in the non-stop media coverage of Election Day was a much sadder story, especially for those who, like me, grew up idolizing Velociraptors and wanting to visit Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton ’64 died of cancer at the age of 66. As fate would also have it, “ER”—the primetime TV medical drama Crichton created, wrote, and produced—is in the midst of its 15th and final season, ending after February sweeps in 2009. As can already be seen in other medical dramas like “House,” Crichton’s absence in this genre will be strongly felt.
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