Cynthia RockwellChef and business owner Michael Leviton ’88 of Lumiere Restaurant, in Newton, Mass., was nominated for James Beard Best Chef Northeast, which includes the New England states and New York region. The awards will be presented on May 3, in New York City’s Avery Fisher Hall, with previous award winners Alton Brown, Lidia Bastianich and Wolfgang Puck hosting. Nominations for the Beard awards, considered the Academy Awards of cooking, is open to the public. Culinary professionals and food journalists then use secret ballots to determine the winners. Leviton is not the product of any culinary school. Instead, he has trained…
David PesciWFSB-3, Hartford’s CBS affiliate, recently profiled the after school programming at Green Street Arts Center, Wesleyan’s community arts initiative that provides classes, mentoring and extensive arts instruction of all sorts to youths in the community. "Kids in Middletown can't wait to get off the bus and meet up with their friends at the Green Street Arts Center. It's not your average after school program. For the last five years, it's been one of the city's hidden gems," says the program's host. The newscast is online.
In a report on NPR’s MarketPlace, Alex Dupuy, Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of Sociology, comments on a United Nations plan to raise and distribute $4 billion of relief funds for Haiti. Dupuy has criticized the Haitian government in the past for settling into a culture of aid instead of trying to build sustainable infrastructure and industry from within. In the report, Dupuy supports the U.N.’s plan to decentralize economic activity, but with caveats that extend to the garment industry and food production.
Olivia DrakeClaire Potter, professor of history, professor of American studies, wrote an Op-ed titled "Intimate Partner Violence: A Scourge Hauled Out of the Shadows," for the April 4 edition of The Hartford Courant. Potter discusses the often unreported crime of intimate partner violence and how recognition of these incidents has at least increased over the last few decades. While awareness of these incidents as crimes has increased since the 1970s, when Potter was first exposed to it, the patterns and incidents themselves remain entrenched. "Reflecting on this as an adult feminist, I think that we — several women and men —…
A translation by Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, will be given its world premiere on April 15, 16, 17 at Harvard University. The play, translated from Eugène Labiche's comedy, is titled "PATER OMNIPOTENS (OR A SUITOR UNSUITED)." Shapiro also will be lecturing in the Boston University Translation Seminar series on April 16 on "Tour de Farce: On Translating French Comedy."
A simple, self-directed, 12-week program produced high success rates and results that lasted up to a year
Prof. Potter on how this crime has gained increased awareness but the overall trends remain disturbing
A profile of Green Street Arts Center, where art, instruction, community and support all come together
Renowned expert on Haiti discusses elements of the U.N. plan for $4 billion in aid to the island nation
Great indy films and their filmmakers will be at Wesleyan for talks and screenings Thursday Nights in April
New innovations, better technology are giving this old technique a new shot at viability.
President Roth reviews an account of the seemingly-improbable Berlin airlift at the dawn of the Cold War