Wesleyan University

Sprinkled with smarts

2013-05-04 00:00:00

The gig: Sprinkles Cupcakes, the Beverly Hills chain beloved by bold-faced Hollywood names such as Tom Cruise and Ryan Seacrest, launched in 2005 with six workers, including founders Candace and Charles Nelson. The company has since expanded to 400...

Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'

2013-02-01 10:00:00

Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...

Art appreciation 101: 'Glittering Images' by Camille Paglia

2012-12-28 07:00:00

-------------------- Glittering Images A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars Camille Paglia Pantheon: 202 pp., $30 -------------------- In the 1990s Camille Paglia established herself as a cultural critic to be reckoned with. Her daring...

Columbia University administrator chosen to head UC Berkeley

2012-11-08 12:38:33

Claremont McKenna names legal scholar as next president

2012-12-06 16:46:04

George McGovern dies at 90; liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72

2012-10-21 08:01:00

George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while...

Andrew Sarris dies at 83; longtime film critic

2012-06-22 00:00:00

Film critic Andrew Sarris began his rise to prominence in the early 1960s when, fresh off an extended visit to Paris, he became a primary spokesman for a theory that would reverberate throughout the cinema world. Screenwriters and producers may have...

Bob Burnett dies at 71; member of folk group the Highwaymen

2011-12-11 00:00:00

The members of the folk group the Highwaymen were freshmen in the same fraternity at Wesleyan University in Connecticut when they came together to perform at a campus party in 1958. By their senior year, the quintet had a No. 1 single with their haunting...

Former Sen. George McGovern stable after fall

2011-12-03 16:37:00

Virtual campus tours courtesy of Google

2012-01-11 16:36:21

Book review: 'Nicholas Ray' by Patrick McGilligan

2011-07-28 00:00:00

Nicholas Ray faced a roomful of film students. They had come to learn from the director who'd made James Dean an icon in "Rebel Without a Cause" and a gunslinger of Joan Crawford in the distaff western "Johnny Guitar." Ray began a mock exercise in filming...

Did Magic Johnson play high school ball with WWE's The Undertaker?

2011-11-16 16:33:27

Dan Wissinger of Danville, Calif., left, and James Dottin from Boston, right, are students of Kaoru Watanabe, who teaches World Music, and play the Japanese Taiko Drums while students proceed to their seats at Wesleyan's commencement for undergraduate and graduate degrees earned in 2013 at Wesleyan

2013-05-26 00:00:00

'River of No Return,' Coming to Wesleyan University

2013-04-26 07:56:00

Wesleyan University's Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace in Middletown, will have a series of free screenings of Marilyn Monroe movies this July, on Tuesday nights at 7:30.

2013-04-24 00:00:00