- Issue Archive for
- Mar 1 - 31, 2006
- Vol. 3, No. 21
News & Features
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Resources
27 With a Grain of Salt
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Mother Nature Cleans Up
A pioneering design concept makes its U.S. debut in Baltimore
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What's Next?
Edited by Elizabeth A. Evitts and Joan Jacobson
Research and Writing by Maria Blackburn, Heather Dewar ,William J. Evitts, Anne Haddad, Cate Han, Alice Ockleshaw, Stacey Seltzer, and Jason Tinney
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Q & A with Astrophysicist Mario Livio
Mario Livio, PhD, spends much of his day observing the heavens as a senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and translating deep science for regular people in lectures and in popular books. His new book is The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry.
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The City of Tomorrow
Kids compete to plan the ideal future metropolis
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Ladies' Night
On the town with the Red Hat Honeys
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Behind this Issue
Marc Alain, who designed this month’s cover, graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003 with a BFA in photography. He is the cofounder of the artist collective Splotch (www.splotches.org), which holds exhibitions and curates a juried online publication featuring art from around the globe. In 2005, Alain won first place in the “Art of Human Life” category for Esquire Japan’s annual digital photography competition. His work has also been featured in Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts, Radar, Look-Look magazine, The NOWW Book of Contemporary Photography, and mooncruise magazine. Currently he splits his week between working for fashion photographer David LaChapelle and photographer Ryan McGinley in New York City.
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What's Next?
Research and Writing by Maria Blackburn, Heather Dewar,William J. Evitts, Anne Haddad, Cate Han, Alice Ockleshaw, Stacey Seltzer, and Jason Tinney
Arts & Culture
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Poetry
A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Lia Purpura is the writer-in-residence at Loyola College. Purpura is the author of two collections of poetry: The Brighter the Veil (1996), which won the Towson University Prize in Literature, and Stone Sky Lifting (2000), winner of the Ohio State University Press Award. Her collection of lyrical essays, Increase (2000), won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfi ction. She is the recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and won a Pushcart Prize for her essay “Glaciology.” Sarabande Books will publish Purpura’s new collection of essays, On Looking, in August.
Jane Hirshfield’s sixth poetry collection, After, has just been published by HarperCollins. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Hirshfield’s honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in multiple editions of The Best American Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many leading literary reviews. She will be reading her new work at Goucher College on March 29 at 8 p.m. at the Alumnae and Alumni House. Go to www.goucher.edu/calendar for more information.
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Epiphany
Food & Drink
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With a Grain of Salt
Gray, red, pink, smoked … exotic salts are the latest culinary trend
Home & Design
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Designed for Healing
A local hospital embodies a national architecture trend
Style & Shopping
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