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Archive for October 15th, 2010

Looking beyond the walls: Tory Fair discusses sculpture

Recently featured in Sculpture Magazine, Professor Tory Fair (FA) crafts figures that explore the subject of the body, nature and the imagination. Since spring, Professor Fair’s series of figures titled “In the wall” has exhibited at the LaMontagne Gallery in South Boston. Using her own body as a model for the figures, Fair has used […]


View of Fall

The trip leader, Cass, wanted to find a view of fall, with the trees in their splendid orange and red and yellow colors spread on the slopes of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Robbie wanted to find a waterfall. I think we all wanted a break from the college bubble, away from work and […]


Going beyond the bubble: Wilson’s Diner

Wilson’s is hardly the place Brandeis students dress up for, wait for a late-night BranVan and head to with a huge group of friends. I bet most haven’t even heard of the Waltham diner; I certainly hadn’t when I stopped there for a morning breakfast Saturday. The place is small, rectangular and reminds one of […]


Sushi Yasu makes for great dining

Sushi Yasu is a small, unpresumptious Japanese and Korean restaurant on Main Street, and makes for a delightful evening of scrumptious food and generous service. Whenever I enter a restaurant that I’ve never been to before, I pay attention to who’s sitting down and eating, so I was worried when I entered Sushi Yasu and […]


Cook of Matthew: Butternut Squash

Eating the same vegetables (or, more likely, no vegetables) every day can get boring. Luckily for you, it’s fall, and there are some delicious squashes in season. Don’t like squash? You will. Squash dishes are easy to make, tasty and good for you too. Here’s one of my new favorites … BUTTERNUT SQUASH (a.k.a. Winter […]


Breaking bread, defying borders

I must admit that I was a little nervous as I stood waiting in line to ask a question of the speaker, who minutes before had captivated an audience with a short, but well-crafted and well-spoken speech. She spoke in immaculate and steady tones with little-to-no hesitation, and had a stony, contented expression that would […]


Brandeis Sailing Goes North

Meghan Breslin-Jewer ’11 was an athlete all through high school, but she didn’t want to participate in a varsity sport when she got to Brandeis. She was at the activities fair when she discovered the sailing team and decided to give it a try. It was only two weeks into practice that she realized sailing […]


What is the social network?

The Social Network, if you haven’t already heard (or seen for yourself), is a real ripper of a film. Between sharp performances, a Rice Krispy script (it snap-crackle-and-pops!), and the kind of visual electricity we have come to expect from David Fincher, the whole thing is just filthy—in the good way. It could make your […]


Open your eyes, close and lock your doors

During the past month, the Brandeis community has been the subject of many events that some may consider uncharacteristic of the university. The flasher, castle dorm thefts and credit card frauds are all examples of incidents we would like to think occur in the outside world, not at Brandeis. We like to think that here […]