The 9th Annual Doug Pollock Polar Chef Cooking Competition in Thorne Dining Hall pitted a team of seasoned faculty and staff against a team of fresh students. Though the students cooked up two gourmet quail dishes — roasted quail leg and quail wing wrapped in bacon — as well as lemon-glazed and brown sugar-encrusted snapper with a side of sprouts and wild mushrooms, the faculty-staff chefs triumphed, according to judges Kristin Mather, Scott Meiklejohn, Lisa Rendall and Melissa Quinby. Continue reading Slideshow: Faculty and Staff Outcook Students with Wild Mushroom Ravioli
Brunswick ME May 22, 2013, 9:23 am  50°F wind speed: 2 mph ENE |  The Good Swimmer cast: Molly Knox '15 (left), Nate Houran '13, and Tess Chardiet '13 For the last two weeks, Broadway has been at Bowdoin, workshopping a new project. Kevin Newbury ’00, a world-renown opera, theater, film director and recent Common Hour speaker, brought to campus an ongoing project he’s collaborating on with writer Donna Di Novelli and Tony-nominated composer Heidi Rodewald. They are creating what they call a “pop requiem,” titled The Good Swimmer.  Photo: Holly Sherburne Maine might have the most food-themed license plates in the United States. Or maybe it just has the best chronicler of foodie license plates: Holly Sherburne, Bowdoin’s director of social media. Sherburne takes photographs of the best license plates she spies and posts them to her blog, The Maine Plate. She is also the author of The Maine Plate: Maine Vanity License Plates and Their Meanings. The Daily Meal credits Sherburne with being possibly the “one person above all others who has excelled at spotting and collecting some of the coolest food license plates in America.” While dog-themes plates are her first passion, Sherburne says she loves to collect food plates as well.
“I think this is one of the most beautiful plays ever written,” Thompson said of her choice to direct Quake her first year at Bowdoin. “I find it really important because I rarely see plays that deal with a relationship between women that doesn’t put them in competition with each other or in relation to a man.” Story by Margot Howard ’13, Photos by Emily du Houx         Every year for the past two decades, the African-American Society has thrown a big party, the Ebony Ball, for all students. Last year, the ball was inspired by the Oscars, and the Af-Am Society staged a party with touches of Hollywood glamor. This year, their theme — no less glamorous — was Harlem Nights. The party was organized by Raven-Seymone Johnson ’13 and Zalika May ’13. EBONY BALL 2013 from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.  Carl Spielvogel ’13 discussing squirrel diabetes Eager to learn about the dangers of diabetes in squirrels, as well as what it’s like to grow up as a Christian Scientist, students crowded into the Chandler Room in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library on a recent evening to listen to talks given by Bowdoin seniors Carl Spielvogel and Daisy Alioto. Spielvogel and Alioto were the two debut speakers of Food for Thought, a new lecture series that invites students to talk about whatever they want in front of their peers. Organized by Bowdoin Student Government, the series is meant to draw out the many unusual or enlightening stories students have to tell. Continue reading Student Lecture Series Debuts with Talks on Christian Science and Squirrel Diabetes  Left to tight: Janet Ying (violin), Ayano Ninomiya (violin), David Ying (cello), Phillip Ying (viola) For five days this February, the four musicians who make up the highly acclaimed Ying Quartet, a string quartet based in Rochester, N.Y., made their home at Bowdoin for an intensive music residency. While they were here, the group performed for the college’s regular Common Hour on Friday, at the Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon, and in Studzinski Recital Hall Monday night. In between performances, the musicians carried their instruments to classrooms and to student practices all over campus to work with Bowdoin musicians. Continue reading Multimedia: Ying Quartet Leaves Lingering Notes on Campus
The Bowdoin Music Collective describes itself as a group of musicians and non-musicians dedicated to improving the musical culture at Bowdoin. They schedule and promote live performances by student musicians, set up impromptu public jam sessions around campus, and serve as a network for musicians to meet each other and collaborate. The two videos include a sampling of acts. Continue reading Video: ‘Bowdoin Music Collective’ Collectively Shines | |||
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