Alumna Allegra Montanari wanted to do more as a cellist than play in an orchestra, so she started Musicians in action, a volunteer music corps of largely Roosevelt students, who regularly lift the spirits of the sick with music….Continue Reading [Spring 2013] Music As Medicine
You won’t learn much about the world of 2012 by reading the science fiction of the 1950s, but you can learn a lot about the 1950s, and that, in the end, is what science fiction (like all fiction) is really good for: it tells us something about ourselves—our hopes, dreams, fears, nightmares….Continue Reading [Spring 2012] On (not) getting to the moon…and other adventures in science fiction
Feminism and fashion are not often considered allies. If feminism is thought to be serious, high-minded and ideological, fashion is considered its very opposite: trivial, superficial and subject to the whims of personal taste….Continue Reading [Summer 2011] Fashion forward?