Avant-Garde Incubator
The blip festival may be unfamiliar to you, but for lovers of “low-bit music,” it’s the world’s premier event. Late last...
Godmothers of The Namesake
Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent...
Reviewing "Reality"
The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President George W. Bush emerged...
John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2007
Last and Best
In sports, as in life, a momentary twist of fate can change everything that follows. So it is with wrestler Olabode “Bode&rdquo...
Features | January-February 2007
The Science of Happiness
This doesn’t feel like a normal academic conference. True, the three-day Positive Psychology Summit is a sellout, with 425 attendees...
John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2007
Forecourt Phenoms
In the world of college squash, Harvard was once a perennial national champion. The Crimson have bagged 30 such titles, far more than any other...
Montage | January-February 2007
Walls of Power
Following the “decisive moment” tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carlin Wing ’02 started out doing New York street photography...
Montage | November-December 2006
Big Sky Blues
In high school, Philip Aaberg 71 took train voyages lasting 12 hours each way between his hometown of Chester, Montana, and Spokane to study...
New England Regional | November-December 2006
Edible Flora (& Fauna)
Textile mills reinvent themselves as airy, exposed-brick shopping malls. Auto showrooms metamorphose into art galleries and old schoolhouses...
John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2006
Fleet Policy
Her mother says that Lindsey Scherf 08 was running as soon as she could walk; she might almost have sprinted out of the womb. Given her current...
Montage | November-December 2006
Arriflex and Amber
At nightfall, the hyenas began to cry and laugh after we had eaten and were enjoying our recent successes in the art of nonfiction filmmaking...
Montage | September-October 2006
Vulnerable Sculpture
Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released into the wider world, sculptures may even inhabit the fourth...