The intention of this page is to highlight random interesting articles in current journals available in print form in the magazine section of the library. We hope that this will expand use of our journals, and help the community to know what we have!

This page will change every two weeks, so please keep checking back!

Entertainment Design, November 2000
The cover story concerns production designer Michael Corenblith, who created the look for the new Jim Carrey film, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Did you know that the interior sets for the movie were created without any straight lines? And the production included many Cirque du Soleil performers as background Whos because so much of the set involved winding staircases and high, narrow bridges without handrails. The article is also generously illustrated.

Science News, November 4, 2000
One major step in evolution was when animals began to walk on two legs instead of four. A newly described fossil of a 10-inch reptile discovered in Europe pushes back the advent of terrestrial bipedalism by about 60 million years!

The feature article describes a project at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Scientists analyzed the vessels from which mourners ate an elaborate feast during King Midas' funeral 2,700 years ago. And then served the same food at a museum fund-raiser. This is the first time an ancient meal has been analyzed by purely chemical means-rather than by reading ancient meal descriptions or recipes.

'Y guy' is a key figure in the debate over the location and timing of humanity's origins. Who is he? More like "what." Y guy is a "genetic reconstruction of the common ancestor of males today." How did scientists determine his makeup? Check it out!

And finally, the Triceratops has been reconsidered. When conservators looked closely at the fossils in the Smithsonian Institute's Dinosaur Hall, they realized that the Triceratops needed a renovation. While undertaking this project, they took the opportunity to use the latest technology to reevaluate these fossils. The new exhibit to be launched next year will show an animal with some changes!

World Literature Today, Spring 2000

Essays on contemporary literary and cultural topics, intended for a broad audience. This issue includes articles on Malaysian poetry and fiction, poetry from Singapore, and Philippine literature, poetry and theatre in English. There are poetry excerpts and fiction as well.

Pennsylvania Heritage, Fall 2000

The current issue highlights the arts. Three articles in particular:

The World of Jane Piper by Bill Scott.
Jane Piper (1916-1991) was one of Philadelphia's foremost painters and teachers. Several works are reproduced here, and an overview of her life and career is included.

Romancing the Stone by Donald Miller
Benno Janssen (1874-1964) was an architect responsible for many of the most important buildings in Pittsburgh. Again, a beautifully illustrated article covering his career.

Broadway Takes a Bow in Bucks County: A Conversation with Kitty Carlisle Hart and Anne Kaufman Schneider by Michael J. O'Malley III
Not only about the bonds that exist between these two women, but also the importance of Bucks County as the country place for Broadway legends from the early 1930s into the '60s.

Zoetrope: All-Story, Fall 2000 Created and published by Francis Ford Coppola, this magazine connects the worlds of fiction and film by publishing stories that have been or may be adapted for film.

This month stories by the following writers are featured: Stacey Richter, Gabriel Brownstein, Madison Smartt Bell, Jennifer Egan, Lee Durkee, Jason Coleman and the reprint of a story by Graham Greene.

The American Scholar, Autumn 2000 A journal of literature, science, and culture. Articles in the current issue include:

Love with a Capital L by Vivian Gornick
A rumination on her love of reading Colette in her 20s and why her writing no longer seem as perfect to her as it did then, and indeed why current young people are unlikely to read and appreciate her in the same way. How our culture has changed to make this true.

Narrow Ruled by Nicholson Baker
He writes of his habit of marking his favorite passages in books as he is reading and then later copying them out in longhand to really understand why they are special.

Starting from Scratch by Roger Shattuck
As the editor of a journal, how to consider a piece of fiction sent for consideration by an agent without any information attached. How to read without a context?