Hardie has published features in Stanford magazine, Triton magazine, Via, US-China Review and Spaceflight among others.
Maurizio Seracini is seeking the lost Leonardo DaVinci mural of the Battle of Anghiari, unseen since the 1540s
The New York Times dance reviewer dubbed Monica Bill Barnes “The downtown darling.”
Rachel Axler: OK, grab a coffee, sit down and be funny—for a living
Every four years, theater designers from around the world gather in Prague.
Cecil Lytle is a music professor and a celebrated pianist
ROAD TRIP: Hellman filmed Two-Lane Blacktop on a coast-to-coast marathon. Photo: Thad Russell
The Stanford campus was overrun with automobiles and 'backyard junk.' Then Thomas Church came along and dreamed up a peripatetic's paradise.
BEYOND HEADLINES: From the Marketplace studios in downtown Los Angeles, Brancaccio tells listeners "how the world works."
ART, NOT ANGER: Gail Gutierrez McDermid displays two of the paintings done by inmates working in the Arts in Corrections program at Folsom Prison.
A DAY AT THE RACES:
Last year, Bob Hess won $1.5 million at the track - and he doesn't even gamble.
MIX MASTER: David Easton challenges modern building methods with his ecologically friendly mud-walled houses.
Mars has always fascinated to me, ever since listening to Journey into Space on BBC radio when I was a kid. What can I say!
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"The security guard at Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio waves Maurizio Seracini through the door of the Salone dei Cinquecento (the Hall of the Five Hundred). Ahead of him, a busload of English tourists shuffle to a halt under the mural on the east wall. It is a hot, humid, late-summer Tuscan day and the Brits are beginning to wilt under the weight of packaged culture." "The Village Voice says Monica Bill Barnes creates “zippy and understated magic.” For the New Yorker she evokes “silent film comedians with coy primping.” She has also been called one of the wittiest young choreographers around, as well as zany and too much fun to miss."
"Welcome to Comedy Central’s Emmy Award-winning The Daily Show located in a nondescript red brick building at the corner of Eleventh Avenue on Manhattan’s West side—as Rachel Axler describes it “just one horse stable and a small highway from the Hudson River.'"
"It had all the excitement of a rock concert. Swarms of exotically garbed and coifed young theater designers milled around the forecourt of Prague’s historical art-nouveau Industrial (Prumyslovy) Palace, chattering away in a babble of languages."
Cecil Lytle is the youngest of 11 children. His father was the janitor of two apartment buildings in Harlem, New York, and the church organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Lytle was a music professor at Grinell College in Iowa before joining UCSD’s music department in 1974. He has also been a visiting professor and artist-in-residence at the Darmstadt Music Festival and the Beijing Conservatory of Music. He has played in venues ranging from Jazz Clubs to the Boston Pops and has recorded 19 albums and CDs.
STANFORD MAGAZINE
"Four of the 17 chapters in Brad Stevens’s Monte Hellman: His Life and Films (McFarland & Co., 2003) are titled “In Between Projects.” It is a quintessentially Hollywood phrase for a man who is quintessentially non-Hollywood, a testimony to the rough-and-tumble life of independent filmmakers. According to Hellman, ’51, he is never in between anything. He is always working, always creating, always Four of the 17 chapters in Brad Stevens’s Monte Hellman: His Life and Films (McFarland & Co., 2003) are titled “In Between Projects.” It is a quintessentially Hollywood phrase for a man who is quintessentially non-Hollywood." Click to read the article "His hats first drew the eye. Squashed, stiff-brimmed or floppy, they all shared one feature: practicality. Then the high-laced boots, scratched by tree roots, scuffed by rocks, speckled with tar and invariably layered in dust.
If you attended Stanford anytime from the late ’40s to the ’70s, you might have seen Thomas Dolliver Church in one of those trademark hats, sporting an old tan corduroy jacket with shears poking out of the pockets, striding across campus or just standing, looking up at the trees." Click to read the article "David Brancaccio puts a down-home spin on business.
Voss's truck stop on old Route 66, near the town of Cuba, Mo., is at the very center of the U.S. census map. Fascinating? David Brancaccio, host and senior editor of public radio’s Marketplace, thinks so. That’s why, for a week last winter, he chose to broadcast his financial news program from the hair salon at Voss’s, right in the middle of Middle America. 'It’s the sort of thing regular listeners have learned to expect from us—keeping Main Street, not Wall Street, at the front and center of our coverage.'" Click to read the article "A California prison administrator oversees a successful--and controversial--arts program for inmates.
On a half-finished canvas, a gray, weathered boardwalk winds around grass-tufted dunes, then dips down toward the sea. Gail Gutierrez McDermid, a diminutive figure in a wine-red jacket and black skirt, steps up to the painting. It could be an art studio anywhere--a teacher appraising a work, a pupil listening. But this is Solano State Prison. McDermid, '66, is administrator of California's Arts in Corrections program, and the artist, Robert Small, is an inmate serving 15 years to life for murder." Click to read the article "A young trainer listens to his horses, but he also believes in patience, teamwork and experience.
As one of the most successful young thoroughbred trainers in Southern California, Hess has had 10 stakes winners in the last three years. The 40 horses stabled in his barn at the Santa Anita Racetrack are worth about $2.5 million." Click to read the article. "David Easton is a visionary with his feet firmly planted on the earth. Literally. On a 2-acre site, nestled under steep, wooded hills outside Napa, Calif., Easton is building atwo-story, 2,600-square-foot, French-style farmhouse for himself, his wife, Cynthia Wright, and the two children still living at home.
And he's building it out of mud." Click to read the article. SPACEFLIGHT
"A study, led by Bruce Lusignan of the Department of Electrlcal Engineer ing, Stanford University concludes that the first humans could land on Mars by 2010 and that a permanent base could be set up within four years. The interplanetary spacecraft will take nine months to reach the Martian orbit. Every spacecraft launch is planned to take advantage of the fact that the optimum time for the journey between Mars and Earth occurs only every 26 months." Click to read the article. |