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2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

In Texas, Some Bands Know Foss Hill On Sight

By Jake Nussbaum ’10 It’s mid-March and I’m standing in the front row of The Phoenix, a swanky dance club on Colorado Street in downtown Austin. The house is packed and we’re all waiting for Das Racist, the New York-based rap group starring Himanshu Suri ’07 and Victor Vazquez ’06, to take the stag…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

The School That Rocks

By Eric Gershon ’98 When Teddy Gage ’05 saw Wesleyan classmate Andrew VanWyngarden’s face staring back at him in 2008 from an ad on the side of a New York City bus, he decided it was time to dig out the videos. Gage had…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Back to the Photographic Future?

By Tom Nugent Want to craft a stunning work of photo-art, then frame it and send it off to friends around the world—all in the space of a few minutes and without ever using a traditional camera? Allan Hoffman ’84 can s…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Alzheimer’s: Progress Toward Elusive Cure

By Peter Saalfield ’06 As a young neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in the early 1960s, Don Price ’56 often encountered elderly patients who were losing their memories. Typically the mental lapses were trivi…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Unfathomable Waste

By Jan Ellen Spiegel It wasn’t as if Jonathan Bloom ’99 had dreamed of being a food waste expert. “Whenever anyone calls me a food waste expert, I just laugh. How can you hear that and not?” he asks. “I often say I nev…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Trusted Source

During the last six weeks of the 2010 elections, The New York Times, Politico, NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg News, CBS Evening News, ABC News and more than 100 other news media outlets repeatedly referred to one…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Vanished Port: Middletown and the Great Era of West Indies Trade

By Erik Hesselberg Middletown lies at a great bend in the Connecticut River, 26 miles up from where it flows into Long Island Sound. A four-lane highway by the river at Middletown separates the city from the waterfront.…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

No Laughing Matter

Among this year’s most popular SuperBowl ads was the latest installment in CareerBuilder.com’s “monkeys” campaign, starring a horde of rowdy chimps with corporate jobs. In the ad, chimpanzees in ties and trench coats cr…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Our Man in India

By Eric Gershon ’98 | Photography By Vidyun Sabhaney William Nanda Bissell ’88 has big ideas for a big country. He would abolish the presidency and one house of parliament. He’d lift corporate taxes and income taxes, r…

2010 Issue 3September 15, 2010April 28, 2014

New Forum for Environmental Issues

By Tom Christopher | Photography by Paul Horton “Something big could happen here,” Barry Chernoff remembers thinking when he first arrived on campus as a job candidate eight years ago. When he joined the faculty as Robe…