{"id":5606,"date":"2017-08-12T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2017-08-12T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:33:08","slug":"weekly-round-up-8-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/08\/12\/weekly-round-up-8-12-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 8-12-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Corelings, how we pine for you in the air-conditioned, quiet, peanut butter pretzel-stocked Core office. You know, you&#8217;re welcome to visit us, alumni and incoming freshmen included. (CAS 119!) In the meantime, here are this week&#8217;s links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This weekend, catch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/artery\/2017\/08\/09\/weekend-free-shakespeare-protest-punk\">Brown Box Theatre Project&#8217;s production of <em>Hamlet<\/em><\/a> in nearby Allston at a formerly abandoned amphitheater in Christian Herter Park. Free performances run Friday through Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Even closer to home, BU Stage Troupe presents the final performance of <em>Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/calendar\/event.php?id=199857&amp;cid=397\">a comedy based on Chekhov&#8217;s plays and themes<\/a>, in the Student Theater at Agganis Arena at the end of this month. Like Hamlet, this show is also free, and it is included as an optional part of orientation. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/107530533175071\/\">Here is a link to the Facebook event<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>From one hermit to another:<\/strong> &#8220;Hermit&#8221; lit, rated by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Thomas_Knight\">Christopher Knight<\/a>, a man who lived alone in the woods in Maine for 27 years. Lao-Tzu, Emerson, Frost, Dickinson, Thoreau, and Dostoyevsky are all<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/a-man-who-spent-27-years-alone-in-the-woods-on-the-best-of-hermit-literature\/\"> subject to Knight&#8217;s criticism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Erica Jong, accompanied by Paul Muldoon of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, waxes poetic on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/poetry\/erica-jong-reads-john-updike\">British Romantic John Keats<\/a> in her poem &#8220;Dear Keats.&#8221; (Begins 10:53)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"54\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/thenewyorker\/?share=1#file=\/audio\/json\/781197\/\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Just for fun:<\/strong> Photographer Freddy Fabris reimagines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/08\/renaissance-recreations\/\">famous Renaissance works<\/a> in a new setting: the garage. Where else can you see mechanics recreating Michelangelo&#8217;s <em>The Creation of Adam<\/em> or Rembrandt&#8217;s <em>The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn77.sadanduseless.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/auto11.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" alt=\"Anatomy lesson. Photograph by Freddy Fabris. (via Sad and Useless)\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anatomy lesson. Photograph by Freddy Fabris. (via Sad and Useless)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week. Be safe, make good decisions, read lots of books, etc.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Corelings, how we pine for you in the air-conditioned, quiet, peanut butter pretzel-stocked Core office. You know, you&#8217;re welcome to visit us, alumni and incoming freshmen included. (CAS 119!) In the meantime, here are this week&#8217;s links. This weekend, catch Brown Box Theatre Project&#8217;s production of Hamlet in nearby Allston at a formerly abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6590,2671],"tags":[48685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}