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What’s So Funny? Andrew Cawley ’17 Investigates Social Criticism in Stand-up...
Andrew Cawley ’17 Andrew Cawley had somewhat of a funny job this summer. He spent his days alternately laughing and taking notes as he watched videos of stand-up comedy. Cawley, an English and...
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Hari Kondabolu ’04 on Being a Mainstream American Comic (Washington Post)
Hari Kondabolu ’04. Photo by Karsten Moran ’05. Hari Kondabolu ’04 debuted his latest comedy album, “Mainstream American Comic,” this summer. The Washington Post discusses how race, social justice, and...
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‘Game of Thrones’ Producer Offers Career Advice to Bowdoin Students
“Game of Thrones” producer Chris Gary speaks about his TV career. Chris Gary, the HBO producer who oversaw Game of the Thrones and True Detective, began his talk at Bowdoin Monday by looking out at the...
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Visiting Artist, Filmmaker Lyès Salem Inspired by French-Algerian Roots
Lyes Salem. Photo: Savannah Simmons-Grover Algerian-born filmmaker and visiting artist in Francophone studies, Lyès Salem, is teaching a seminar class on creative writing and filmmaking in which he...
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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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Fake News, and How to Avoid It (LA Times)
The 2016 Presidential election was replete with fake news stories promulgated by social media—the President-elect himself has even retweeted fake statistics. Melissa Zimdars, assistant professor of...
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Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will
Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will has just a few more days to run in New York City at the Morgan Library and Museum. The exhibition, which opened at the end of September 2016, coincided with the...
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Need to Waste Time? Try These Mensa Puzzles (Scientific American)
Have a long trip ahead of you? Try solving these games, which Scientific American calls “Mensa puzzlers.”
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True Story? The Accuracy of Hollywood’s Recent Historical Films (Information...
Image detail: Information is Beautiful The website Information is Beautiful has turned its attention to 14 recent biopics and other “historically accurate” Hollywood films to judge them for their...
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The Politics of 2017 Super Bowl Ads (The Atlantic)
The current political divide over President Trump has made it harder for brands to take a bipartisan approach to Super Bowl advertising. The early release of Budweiser’s “The Hard Way” displays the...
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What ‘Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel’ Teaches Us about Technology (The...
The Atlantic explores Virginia Lee Burton’s Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, an early twentieth–century children’s book and ostensible parable for technological change. The book, and other Burton...
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The Latest at Bowdoin’s Museums and the Nine Other ‘Must-See’ Museums of 2017...
“Rooftops of Nagoya,” 1963, woodblock by Junichiro Sekino (準一郎關野), Japanese, 1914–1988. Gift of D. Lee Rich, P’78, ’80 and John Hubbard Rich Jr., Class of 1939 Litt.D. 1974, P’78, ’80. Part of the...
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Two European Culture Capitals are Partying Like It’s 2017 (Newsweek)
Two European cities — Aarhus, on the coast of Denmark, and Kingston-upon-Hull, 450 miles away on the coast of England — promise year-round celebrations of art and culture to boost their morale and...
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Boycott Culture Has CEOs Walking the Tightrope (Bloomberg)
A Bloomberg study finds 57 percent of executives believe boycotts do indeed impact their companies, and many are finding it’s difficult to avoid political controversy—even through silence. “Consumers...
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The True Value of an Oscar (Mic)
Everyone who works in the movie industry dreams of winning an an Academy Award. But for those select few who do attain an Oscar, what is the accolade actually worth? What is the material value of the...
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Dave Fogler ’90 on ‘Visual Effects in Film – Art, Craft, and (Sometimes) Bad...
Image from ‘Stars Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens’ (2015). Courtesy: Industrial Light & Magic Dave Fogler ’90 has worked on special effects in the movie industry since 1997, when he joined...
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The Answer is Always Bowdoin College, Except on ‘Jeopardy!’ When It’s the...
Bowdoin College got a shout-out on Jeopardy! March 1, 2017, when the popular game show featured the College as the correct response to an answer in the category A Small College.
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Bowdoin Gets Shout-Out on ‘Mindy Project’
Bowdoin was featured in the plot of a recent episode of The Mindy Project, starring comedian Mindy Kaling. Characters mentioned Bowdoin half a dozen times in the episode titled, “Take My Ex-Wife,...
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Updating Facebook’s ‘Media Company’ Status (Wired)
Though Facebook has resisted the descriptor “media company”—insisting instead it is a technology platform—the implementation of the “spotlight module” long-form video created specifically for the...
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Hamilton: The Lego Set (Mental Floss)
Tickets to the Broadway show “Hamilton” are hard to come by, but if enough people weigh-in, you could build your own. A Lego community member submitted a Hamilton inspired Lego set to the toymaker’s...
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