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Cue Lights! New LED Lamps Enhance Bowdoin’s Theatrical Offerings — And Save...
Love’s Labour’s Lost in Rehearsal The Theater and Dance Department’s production of the Shakespearean comedy “Love’s Labour’s Lost” wraps up its run this evening. The production is an unusual one — set...
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The Enduring Appeal of Pokémon (The Atlantic)
Many early adopters of the Pokémon card game during its inception 20 years ago continue to play the game now in their 20s and 30s. It’s part of the reason why the Pokémon franchise is still booming,...
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Students Multicultural Center Starts Up ‘Freedom Fridays’
Benjamin Harris Freedom Fridays is a new program at Bowdoin designed to spark interesting, informal discussions about popular culture and social issues. The first meeting began with a conversation...
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Netflix Cofounder and CEO Reed Hastings ’83 on Campus
Netflix Cofounder and CEO Reed Hastings ’83 on Entrepreneurship from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Fans of Netflix will recognize the cliffhanger technique of leaving the really good stuff to the last...
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Things You Said You’d Never Do as a Parent and Now Totally Do (The Ugly Volvo)
From putting your child on a leash and parking your little one in front of the television to thinking about cooking meth—these are the things you swore you’d never do, but now, as a frazzled and...
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Cue Lights! New LED Lamps Enhance Bowdoin’s Theatrical Offerings — And Save...
Love’s Labour’s Lost in Rehearsal The Theater and Dance Department’s production of the Shakespearean comedy “Love’s Labour’s Lost” wraps up its run this evening. The production is an unusual one — set...
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History of Ouija Board Reveals Spiritual Past with the Dead (Smithsonian...
The ouija board, a talking board popular since the late nineteenth century, has spawned a range of reactions about the amusement, and potential allure, of communicating with the unknown, unconscious,...
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Actor Paul Adelstein ’91 Reprises Role in Fox’s ‘Prison Break’ (#Maine)
Paul Adelstein ’91 Paul Adelstein ’91, known for roles on ABC’s Scandal and Private Practice, and Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, will be reprising his role in the drama Prison Break, which...
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The Enduring Appeal of Pokémon (The Atlantic)
Many early adopters of the Pokémon card game during its inception 20 years ago continue to play the game now in their 20s and 30s. It’s part of the reason why the Pokémon franchise is still booming,...
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Faculty Collaboration Reassesses Chekhov as a “Thinker” As Well As “Dramatist”
Bowdoin’s Russian and Theater departments are collaborating for a pair of events Friday and Saturday designed to re-examine the work of Anton Chekhov. Alongside his role as a renowned dramatist, the...
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Chris Brown ’91 Gears up for Record Store Day 2016, Nine Years After...
Chris Brown ’91 Chris Brown ’91 set up Record Store Day in 2008, nearly two decades after helping fellow Bowdoin grad Brett Wickard ’90 set up Bull Moose Music in Brunswick – now a chain of 12 record...
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Bowdoin’s ‘Northern Bites’ Take Second in 2016 RoboCup US Open
Bowdoin’s “Northern Bites” prepare to take the field against the University of Miami’s “RoboCanes” Bowdoin’s team of autonomous, robotic soccer players—the “Northern Bites”—took second place in the...
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Moving Timeline of How Music Taste Evolved (1958-2016)
For popular music fans, this is pretty cool: it’s a moving timeline by Matt Daniels at Polygraph that displays (and plays) more than 20,000 songs that appeared in the Billboard top five from 1958...
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HBO-Bowdoin Diversity Internship Brings Students into Movie, TV Business
For many years, HBO executive Kary Antholis ’84 regularly extended a hand to Bowdoin students, inviting them to intern at his company where he oversees the Miniseries and Cinemax programs. About four...
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Remembering ‘Pink Panther’ Actor Burt Kwouk ’53 (Washington Post)
Burt Kwouk ’53 from the 1953 “Bowdoin Bugle.” Burt Kwouk ’53, a British character actor of Asian descent best remembered for his role as Inspector Clouseau’s manservant Cato in the Pink Panther movies,...
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Breaking Down the Popularity of Star Wars (The Economist)
Star Wars is one of the most popular franchises in human history. But how did it become so popular and sustain this level of acclaim over several generations? The Economist breaks down the film...
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Are You on the Happy Side of the ‘More Time or More Money’ Question? (Vox)
In a recent study, researchers at Penn and UCLA asked the age-old question: would you rather have more time or more money. Most people surveyed said that they would prefer more money, but it was the...
View ArticleBart D’Alauro ’95 on Running a Movie Rental Business in the Age of Streaming
Bart D’Alauro ’95 jokingly winces when you mention the name of fellow alumnus and Netflix cofounder and CEO Reed Hastings ’83, who drew large crowds when he spoke on campus in March, describing how he...
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Bowdoin’s Rael on What’s Right and What’s Wrong in Civil War Film ‘The Free...
Patrick Rael Professor of History Patrick Rael delves into the recently released film The Free State of Jones with an essay in Muster that examines where it fits in the broader Civil War film...
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Laurence: Pokémon Go Unlikely to Boost ‘Cool Japan’ Economy (The Diplomat)
Despite breaking records since its release in early July, Nintendo’s new online augmented reality game, Pokémon Go, is not likely to have any wider positive impact on Japan’s creative economy,...
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