The end is near, at least for this stage of the journey. Standing between me and the end of my college experience, part deux, are three classes and a semester-long internship. The internship is the most important item on the schedule in that it may point the way to a career and the return [...] Read more »
Is it really necessary to have four police cars converge on a 50 year old tourist walking down the street with a beer? Further, is it really necessary to throw him in the slammer for nine hours? I get the broken window theory and all, but has the police force lost its measure of common [...] Read more »
These are either the scariest words ever written or the announcement of our impending immortality… "We make a genome from four bottles of chemicals; we put that synthetic genome into a cell; that synthetic genome takes over the cell," said Dr. Gibson. "The cell is entirely controlled by that new genome." The scientists didn’t [...] Read more »
One of the operas produced at this year’s Spoleto USA festival is Flora, an Opera. In the form of a ballad opera, Flora is significant because it is the first opera performed in the United States, making its inaugural appearance in Charleston in 1735 on the second floor of a tavern. Flora was presented again [...] Read more »
MOST PEOPLE probably don’t realize that Spoleto is one of the few festivals in the world that produces its own opera and presents other forms of artistic expression. I didn’t either until my Spoleto 150 class at the College was so informed by Nunnally Kersh, Producer of Spoleto USA. Nor [...] Read more »
