News and Updates

“It’s a good gig, kid.”

December 04, 2007

Monti’s La Casa Vieja in Tempe is perhaps best known as Arizona’s best replica of the actual, original Labyrinth from Greek mythology (you know, with the irritated minotaur, a piece of string, etc…). Despite the twisting corridors, it’s also a…


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What do you want to do today?

December 04, 2007

Our four-week Thanksgiving holiday is over at last, and there’s a whole bunch to catch up on. For starters, here’s the report that came in a little while ago from Niki Hale Price (’88), who writes for/owns the Oregon Coast…


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Pulitzer-winning writer Anna Quindlen visits with Flinn Scholars

November 21, 2007

Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen spent the evening of Nov. 16 with a dozen Flinn Scholars, wrapping up a weeklong residency at Arizona State University as the 2007 Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecturer.


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The esq. ledger, international edition

November 09, 2007

Mary Fan (’97), following law school and an MPhil courtesy of the Gates Cambridge people, is working for a year as an Associate Legal Officer for Judge O-Gon Kwon in the Hague. Judge Kwon is presiding over the “Srebrenica Seven”…


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Decisions, Decisions

November 09, 2007

Back in the day, a Dane was having trouble making up his mind. And one thing led to another, and then everybody except Horatio and a rambunctious Norwegian ended up cold and sprawled out on the stage. If our Dane…


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Six degrees of Tony Romo, vol. 2

November 08, 2007

We swear we’re not going to talk about football forever. In some ways, we think, Don DeLillo had it right. But still, this is fun: Nick T. Spark (’88 ) is producing a new documentary, “Pancho Barnes!“, which features Chuck…


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Six degrees of Tony Romo

November 07, 2007

It’s the start of a new dorm-room craze. Can anybody beat this? Kevin Bacon was in “Mystic River” with Marcia Gay Harden, who was in “American Dreamz” with Mandy Moore, who danced around on a Seattle stage during a concert…


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