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While the day after graduation marks a new stage in the lives of each member of the Class of 2010, May 28 represents an even more momentous occasion for Billy M.K. Stallings ’10 and his fiancé Paul G. Nauert ’09. Trading a gown and mortarboard for a tuxedo, Stallings will head to Memorial Church on Friday to tie the knot with Nauert...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wedding: Billy M. K. Stallings ’10 and Paul G. Nauert ’09 | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Photo by Bora Fezga/The Harvard Crimson. Crimson gown photo courtesy of Charlie Huang/Wikimedia Commons...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduation Robes, Explained | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

...small sacrifice. Refusing to eat bluefin tuna isn't one of those empty gestures, like a celebrity wearing a relief-aid ribbon on a $12,000 couture gown. The reason bluefin became the go-to fish for chefs from Tokyo to Tampa is that it tastes so good - and more important, from the point of view of restaurant owners, because it looks so good. What self-respecting sushi restaurant would be caught without a thick ruby slab of tuna under its sneeze guard? How would unimaginative hotel chefs provide their guests with poolside tartare platters if they couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning My Back, Sadly, on Bluefin Tuna | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Asian to become a Master of Wine (an international group of fewer than 300 experts so certified by London's Institute of Masters of Wine). But hers does not, on first perusal, come across as a serious work. The cover image of Lee posing in a flowing red evening gown isn't calculated to enhance the book's credibility, and there appears to have been no budget for original food photography - so the reader is served up stock-house images of congealing soups and stone-cold stir-fries (or so they appear), devoid of context. Then there are the baffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The East Is Red, White And Rosé | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...musical, Madea's Big Happy Family, a day after I sat through a Broadway revival of Noel Coward's 1939 play Present Laughter. I noticed a few differences. In Coward's play, the main character, a famous stage actor, spends most of the evening in a dressing gown delivering bons mots to an entourage of fellow theater people. In Perry's show, a sharp-tongued grandmother delivers sassy put-downs and motivational lectures to a brood of squabbling family members. Coward's plot reaches a climax as the actor finds out that several pestering women have all booked passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler Perry's Big Happy Family | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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