MAGAZINEGood FencesWHERE Washington Magazine, Washington D.C.
July 2010 Most fences divide, but in 1976 two artists erected one that brought people together. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the 'Running Fence," revisits the lengthy, sometimes controversial process that characterizes any project by the couple known for grand-scale installations. Nothing remains on the 24.5-mile course that ran across California ranches and into the sea. But visible here: hundreds of candid images, 46 large preparatory drawings and a nylon panel and a 21-foot steel support pole. Touch screens allow visitors to see original documents and video interviews of the cooperative but bemused ranchers. How to Crack a Crab
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Baltimore, Md. Summer/Fall 2010 Forget mama's rule: don't play with your food at the dinner table. Eating crabs means ending up messy -- a condition not just acceptable but required. Start with a pile of steamed crabs, encrusted in seasonings and stacked on a table that's been wrapped in butcher paper. Step One: Grab a leg (the six smaller appendages), and pull it out. If lucky a piece of crab meat will come along. Discard the rest and repeat. Twist off the front claws, then crack with a wooden mallet to find meat inside. Step Two: Flip over the crab. Slide a knife under the tip of a triangular piece on the belly; pry up. Then stick the knife between the carapace and the inside, and give a turn, popping off the main shell. Step Three: Discard lungs and possibly the yellow "mustard." The equivalent of the crab's liver, the mustard is considered a delicacy by the most intrepid of crab-crackers. Snap the remaining crab body in half, and dig a mini fork into the cavities. Step Four: Procure Sweet chunks of white crab meat, and savor the delicious results. Chill Out
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Baltimore, Md. Summer/Fall 2010 Desperate to escape the heat? Well, at Minus5 everything from the furniture to the bar is made of ice. Visitors don Eskimo-like jackets to enter the 27° F portable site. "Ice Wizards" serve specialty drinks made of juice and vodka (it won't freeze!) in glasses sculpted from ice (gloves provided). The "ice lounge" debuted at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and now makes its way to the East Coast. |
NEWSPAPERWitnesses to HistoryThe Daily Universe, Provo, Utah
Jan. 29, 2009 It was not yet 2 a.m. when Andrew Dougherty camped out at the nation's Capitol in anticipation for the inauguration. "We wore everything we had," said Dougherty, a junior from Irvine, Calif. "We brought blankets and used the curb as a pillow. A man who used to be homeless even came up and gave us some pointers on how to survive, telling us that what we really needed was cardboard and newspapers." Dougherty was one of the students participating in Washington Seminar who had the opportunity to experience the inauguration of President Barack Obama firsthand. Being in the crowd at the inauguration provided the students with a unique perspective. "It was awe-inspiring," said Mandi Critchfield, a senior from Oakley, Idaho. "You didn't notice any of the mess-ups. It was just really cool to stand back and look around at all of the people chanting 'Obama.'" It is estimated that 1.8 million people attended the inauguration, breaking the previous attendance record from when Lyndon Johnson took the oath in 1965. "It was so incredible because all of the people had traveled to D.C. from all across the states and were just so excited for this change," said Lauren Hagee, a senior from McKinney, Texas. "It was a piece of history that's bigger than me and the group that was there." Hagee had tickets in the seated section and ended up sitting between two strangers, a mayor from North Dakota and an 87-year-old black woman named Odessa. Though they didn't know each other before, they bonded while trying to stay warm and enjoying the experience. "Odessa has lived through discrimination and thought that she would never see this," Hagee said. "When Barack Obama took the oath of office, she did a little dance and chanted 'Obama' with the enthusiasm and energy of a woman half her age." CLICK HERE TO KEEP READING Petition for campus demonstration deniedThe Daily Universe, Provo, Utah
March 23, 2010 By ALYSSA SHARP and NATALIE CROFTS A student’s request to hold a demonstration on campus calling for more responsibility and transparency in BYUSA’s spending was denied last week by administration. “A recent request for public demonstration to ‘enact change’ on a perceived lack of transparency in the budget of the Student Service Association was denied,” Jonathon Kau, associate dean of Student Life, told The Daily Universe in an e-mail. “The purpose of the demonstration could not be supported because it calls for BYUSA to violate university policy which safeguards budget information.” As a private university and private property owner, BYU reserves the right to control public demonstrations on its property, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said. Following BYU procedure, Hunter Schwarz, a junior from Gilbert, Ariz., applied through the office of the Dean of Student Life for permission to hold an on-campus demonstration. Schwarz has been a critic of BYUSA’s spending practices and created a Facebook group — which currently has 140 members — titled Concerned Students for Responsible BYUSA. Schwarz said he wanted to organize the demonstration so that students could express their frustration with what he considers a lack of transparency in BYUSA’s spending process and how the organization spends its allotted budget. Schwarz said he was told to fill out paperwork to attain permission for the demonstration. Before he completed the process, however, Kau told him they had decided to reject his proposal. “In my conversations with people from BYUSA and the staff from Student Life, I was told that I didn’t know the whole story,” Schwarz said. “But they wouldn’t say what it is. I think that’s unfair.” CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING |