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An undergraduate discovers the psychic benefits of running
Had anyone asked me a year ago about my biggest pet peeves, I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of humidity). It was not entirely surprising, then, that I was feeling contemplative this past Father’s Day as I ran the Boston Athletic Association’s annual 10K race in the midst of a torrential downpour.
Artistic director Joshua McTaggart and the redesigned Chelsea Theatre
London’s Chelsea Theatre can be found off a main road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a neighborhood where household incomes are typically three times the national average. By contrast, the theater itself is tucked into the World’s End Estate, a public-housing complex built in the 1970s that also includes a school and a church.
“Write Your Own Songs”
This Sunday, two recent graduates will be going for the gold at the ninety-second Academy Awards ceremony. Gabe Fox-Peck ’19 and Joshuah Campbell ’16 collaborated on the creation of “Stand Up,” written for Harriet—last year’s biopic about abolitionist Harriet Tubman—and now a nominee for Best Original Song. Campbell composed the melody and co-wrote the lyrics with the film’s star, Cynthia Erivo, who can be heard performing the song during the credits of Harriet.
The continuing appeal of Rachel Ingalls
Rachel Ingalls’s 1983 novel Binstead’s Safari has been reissued by New Directions this February, and that is no surprise: her cult novella Mrs. Caliban (1982) attracted renewed interest and a reprint in 2017 when its plot—a lonely housewife named Dorothy falls in love with Larry, a scaly green frog-man—drew parallels to Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, winner of four Academy Awards that year, including Best Picture. Ingalls grew up in Cambridge and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1964.
27 Shots | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
The man at CVS slid a yellow cardboard envelope across the counter. “Here are your photos. That’ll be $6.51.” By Olivia M. Munk Jan 11, 2013 The man at CVS slid a yellow cardboard envelope across the counter. “Here are your photos. That’ll be $6.51.” I stared at the package. I always developed pictures in high school; why was I so wary to look at these ones? Shouldn’t I be itching to upload them in the hopes of a new profile picture, or something?
The Best of Holiday-Themed Procrastination | Flyby | The Harvard Crimson
The point of finals period may be to finally complete those problem sets or crack the spine on the $300 textbook you were supposed to be reading all semester, but we all know what the end of classes actually means: extra procrastination time. Luckily, with the end of exams comes Winter Break, and with Winter Break comes the holidays.
Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights
There are many things about the “real world” that no one tells you upon graduating college, such as: you can take a ladder on the London Tube, but not on a bus. I learned this the hard way while attempting to move set pieces for my first non-collegiate theater production. I do not have a learner’s permit, let alone a license, but suddenly I found myself fervently wishing I owned a van.
Edinburgh Previews 2018: The Squirrel Plays
There’s only one thing you need to know about newlyweds Tom and Sarah: They are definitely not “squirrel people.” Not that they judge, of course. So when they discover a critter in the attic, they’re faced with a marriage-testing decision: To exterminate, or not to exterminate? But the squirrels aren’t only invading Tom and Sarah’s home. They’ve infested the whole neighborhood. This time, the issue doesn’t only tear Sarah and Tom apart. It threatens the peace of an entire community.
Harvard Graduate of School of Design opens renovated Wimbledon House in London
This past Tuesday, a crowd gathered at Wimbledon House, the home that esteemed British architect Richard Rogers built for his parents in Wimbledon, London, to celebrate the inauguration of the Richard Rogers Fellowship in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD).
Harvard students find not being connected is not really an option, but still…
One sketch from the pilot episode of Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s eclectic homage to the niche (read: hipster) culture of Portland, Oregon, has always resonated with me. Surrounded by an iPad, Macbook, and iPhone, Armisen becomes entrenched in what can only be described as a technological Scylla and Charybdis: as soon as he checks one buzzing device, another one beeps.
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