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Category 2006 Issue 4Posted on

A Better Vibe

BY LARRY GETLEN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART IN BEAT THIS: A HIP-HOP HISTORY, a 1984 BBC documentary about the seminal days of hip-hop, rap pioneer DJ Kool Herc talks about the South Bronx house parties where he helped ignite the fire of the B-Boy nation. Off to one side sits a light-skinned, 10-…
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Category 2006 Issue 3Posted on

Culinary Creativity

BY CLARA SILVERSTEIN ’82 Alternately wielding a knife, a spoon, and a pair of stainless steel tongs, Michael Leviton ’88 spends most of his workdays in perpetual motion. As chef and owner of Lumiere restaurant in the B…
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Category 2006 Issue 3Posted on

Rainforest Classroom

NORA CONNER ’07 KNEW that “Tropical Ecology” would be wildly different from any other class she’d taken at Wesleyan. Still, she hadn’t expected to wake up and find a tarantula the size of her hand above her bed. “An eve…
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Category 2006 Issue 2Posted on

Voice From Liberty

IN LATE JANUARY WE CAUGHT UP WITH DAVID BRANCACCIO '82 while he was in Liberty, Maine, shooting the opening segment of Now, the PBS show he hosts. Liberty is just off Route 3 as the two-lane highway heads east out of Aug…
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