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...open up the Alice Tully-Juilliard building, Diller and her partners more or less exploded it. At one triangular corner they greatly extended the lobby, wrapped it in glass and stacked a glass-walled dance-rehearsal space just above. That transparent box cantilevers over the street to offer free performances for whoever walks by - like a JumboTron but with real people dancing inside it. "We were trying to strike a balance," says Diller, "between the monumental and the dematerialized." Then they sliced the new space with a multistory diagonal plane. It creates a giant triangular canopy that launches itself toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln Center's New Come-Hither Design | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...have Star Wars branding, which possesses a magical retail power all its own. The toy features 15 levels of training: increasingly difficult challenges involving how high to raise the ball and how long to hold it steady before changing its height. Along the way, Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi offer words of encouragement as hopefuls try to attain Jedi Master status. May your limited discretionary-spending power be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind-Control Toys: The Force Is with You | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

This year, Hall said, a group of Harvard cadets decided they wanted to invite Petraeus to speak at the commissioning ceremony, and Petraeus—who spoke at the Kennedy School in 2002—accepted the group’s offer...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen. Petraeus To Address ROTC | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

This semester, it may become a whole lot more common to hear people commenting on that annoying bitch or hot hound in lecture. But with History of Science 137: “Dogs and How We Know Them,” a new course offered this semester, Professor Sarah Jansen is getting a pack of students drooling over the study of canines in the classroom. Jansen, whose course focuses on the role that dogs have played throughout history, is no newcomer to the study of four-legged animals. “The very first research paper that I ever wrote...

Author: By Sarah B. Schechter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Put This Class on a Leash! | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

Umami editor-in-chief Christine W. Li ’10 also emphasized the escape that restaurants offer. “It’s great to get away from the atmosphere of academics, pressure, and stress...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Umami’s So Phat | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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