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(04/13/06 5:00am)
Some creative programming and open-mindedness brought jazz legend McCoy Tyner to the Shriver Hall Concert Series this past Sunday night. The headliner of the Piano Celebration, a huge weekend event marking the 40th anniversary of the Shriver Series, Tyner was also the first jazz musician to grace the stage of SHCS. He played a robust program of standards and original compositions with a verve honed over 40 years and with some of the greatest names in jazz.
(02/09/06 5:00am)
A lot of people are taught that radicalism, in its various forms, is meant to make people take a step back and reassess the issues, to point them towards the extremes and maybe start them moving towards one of them. Communists, vegans, free-lovers: They all just want you to take a look at the most extreme form of living and perhaps take something away from it. Radicals don't necessarily want to instantaneously convert lots of people to a new and shocking doctrine.
(10/20/05 5:00am)
After more than three years at Hopkins, parts of which have been spent both as a van driver and a party-goer, I feel I have a bit of license to go out on a limb here: The security escort van service should be made, if anything, more like a free taxi service for drunks and party-goers.
(05/08/05 5:00am)
Michael Chabon
(05/08/05 5:00am)
I've always thought that blogs, in general, are cries for help and that writing a blog, like taking the one-hour-gallon-of-milk challenge or drunk dialing an old girlfriend, should be avoided at all costs. But now and then I find one that's tolerable enough to read. And last week I saw something interesting on a friend's blog. It was the last sentence of a posting, and all it said was, "Is it still cool to like Dinosaur Jr.?"
(04/28/05 5:00am)
The scene was strangely cold for late April this past Tuesday night, and for a few girls who walked by the backside of the MSE library, arms folded in sorority sweatshirts, the scene was just plain strange.
(04/14/05 5:00am)
"I think other, 'real' photographers might be jealous or mad that my photos are up???I mean, this was kind of an accidental thing," says junior Monica McDonough as we sit on the couches in the lobby of One World Caf??, where the works in her her photo exhibit, "Fazendas de Caf??," adorn the walls.
(04/07/05 5:00am)
Baltimore doesn't have the same kinds of racial dynamics that they have in a place like New York City. Here, everything is a black-white issue, a problem or a success that occurs between a minority and a majority. New York-based writer and director David Lamb's experiences led him to different insights about life and race.
(04/06/05 5:00am)
This is the second in a two-part series that seeks to explore community involvement at Hopkins as compared to two of our peer schools: the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago. This piece focuses on the students at all three schools and how they perceive their and the university's role in community involvement.
(03/30/05 5:00am)
Go to any Baltimore neighborhood association or community development meeting, and you can count on public transportation (or the lack thereof) being near the top of the agenda. Mobtown is a remarkably poor city, and the best way to solve a poverty problem is to get jobs for everyone.
(03/30/05 5:00am)
Four years ago, at the start of his second season as artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, maestro Yuri Temirkanov was described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "slim, dapper and handsome with an underlying Russian melancholy," and a man who "opens chasms of Soviet agony with an elegant sweep of an arm." Under his elegant arm, the symphony has made its first tour of Europe and has seen attendance surge during the subscription season. This past season saw sell-out crowds at almost every performance and included virtuoso performances of Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Hilary Hahn, Keith Lockhart and Joshua Bell.
(03/23/05 5:00am)
The half-cartoon, half-literate medium of the graphic novel has never quite gotten onto the radar of the general public. University of Michigan professor Phoebe Gloeckner is a good example of a graphic novelist that the world can take seriously - she has made a career of focusing on the narrative aspects of her genre, and she is teaching a new generation of young artists her craft. She will present the Spring Visiting Artist's Lecture at the Mattin Center this Thursday.
(03/10/05 5:00am)
This is the first of a two-part comparative investigation that seeks to further explore the role of Johns Hopkins in regard to the issues of service, community development, and civic responsibility in Baltimore City. Part one will compare the initiatives run by the administration at Johns Hopkins and two of its peer institutions, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago. Part two will focus on student-run community service initiatives at Johns Hopkins and its peer institutions.
(03/03/05 5:00am)
The Committee on Homewood Safety and Security held its first meeting on Wednesday morning in Shriver to discuss the current security status, coinciding with the release of the third security update this week.
(03/03/05 5:00am)
Both nationally and internationally, beer reflects the character of its birthplace. The differences among German, British and Canadian beers, for example, are as clear as the cultural distinctions. Here in the states, we all know that Coors hails from Golden, Colorado, Milwaukee means Miller and Boston boasts its Sam Adams.
(02/24/05 5:00am)
The novelist Joan Didion once wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it."
(02/24/05 5:00am)
This weekend, the Johns Hopkins University Theatre opens a two-weekend production of Brandon Thomas's Charley's Aunt, starring six undergraduates: Anthony Blaha, Tania Hamod, Elspeth Kursh, Michael Levy, Praem J. Phulwani, and Elissa Weissman. The play is directed by John Astin, the head of the Hopkins theatre program, and a star of dozens of Hollywood productions and theatre productions all over the world. The News-Letter got a chance to sit down at Silk Road Caf??? with Astin and former student Loren Dunn, who now teaches two levels of acting workshops, to talk about the upcoming play, about the future of theatre at Hopkins, and about acting instruction and methodology. Both Astin and Dunn will appear onstage in Charley's Aunt.
(02/10/05 5:00am)
Campus humorist, comedy-promoter, and playwright Adam Ruben proved this past weekend that he is a master of formula and an expert manipulator of words and gags. His aptly if graphically titled new play, Red Creek, was hilarious from the first act, and a great effort from the cast and crew of Witness Theatre.
(11/11/04 5:00am)
Since the Declaration of Independence, the people of this country have sought to understand just what it means to be an American, and literary minds from Twain to Steinbeck have conceived images of America in service of a vast spectrum of intellectual, cultural and political ideologies. Once the search for collective identity got started, it never slowed down. Out of this quest for understanding came the USA trilogy, written by Chicago-born Jazz Age novelist John Dos Passos.
(11/04/04 5:00am)
Whatcha up to this week? Countin' flowers on the wall? That don't bother you at all? What about playin' solitaire 'til dawn, with a deck of 51? Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo?