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The $12 Potato Chip- And Other Horrors<\/strong><\/a> [Podcast]
\n\u201cThe Colin McEnroe Show\u201d – WNPR
\nIn 2016, a Swedish brewery offered for sale artisanally-prepared potato chips. $59 for five chips in what looks like a jeweler’s box. They sold out. Crazy, right?
\nBut be honest: Have you gone to more than one place looking for just the right coffee bean or golden beet or …something? Meanwhile, behind all this posturing, what do Americans really cook and eat?
\nThe audio at the top of this page is the radio version of this show. The full-length, unedited, from-start-to-finish, fully-40-minutes-too-long-to-air-on-the-radio version of Colin’s Freshly Squeezed at Watkinson School is below.
\nGUESTS:
\nAlison Draper<\/strong> <\/a>– Toxicologist; director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Science at Trinity College
\nChris Prosperi – Chef\/owner, Metro Bis in Simsbury, Conn.
\nMarlene Schwartz – Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity; professor of human development and family studies at UConn<\/p>\n

Connecticut Arts Day Features Performances, Speakers, Panels<\/strong> <\/a>
\nHartford Courant\/CT Now<\/em>
\nThe theme of Connecticut Arts Day 2018, celebrated on April 25 in Hartford, is resiliency. Keynote speaker Bettina Love fits right in. Love has made her name theorizing on a new approach to education of urban youth: by embracing hip-hop not just as a genre of music but as a distinct culture, and using the norms of that culture to reach kids who can\u2019t relate to traditional teaching methods.
\n\u201cThese kids come from a beautiful culture that prepares them for education. There is resistance and there is resiliency in this culture,\u201d Love says. \u201cHip-hop comes out of African-American culture, the civil-rights movement, which is all about people resisting and fighting. It comes out of the black power movement. It\u2019s all about getting knocked down and getting right back up again.\u201d\u2026
\n\u2026Lunch will be followed at 12:30 p.m. by the presentation of a lifetime achievement award to dancer-choreographer [Professor of Theater & Dance, Emerita] Judy Dworin<\/strong><\/a>, who founded Judy Dworin Performance Project in 1989. The ceremony will include a speech by Greg Galle of Future Partners\u2026<\/p>\n

Amid funding crunch, CT colleges look to diversify revenue streams<\/strong> <\/a>
\nHartford Business Journal<\/em>
\nTrinity College generated headlines earlier this year when it announced that for the first time in the school’s history, its tuition \u2014 inclusive of room, board and annual fees \u2014 would exceed $70,000 beginning in 2018-2019.
\nYet, the 195-year-old private liberal arts college in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood is not alone at that price point. In fact, several private schools across New England, including Middletown’s Wesleyan University, Amherst College in Massachusetts and Dartmouth in New Hampshire, are all on the threshold of the $70,000 mark.
\n“The cost of our physical plant and operations goes up every single year,” said Angel Perez<\/strong><\/a>, Trinity College’s vice president, noting that the school’s costs \u2014 from housing and feeding students to providing health care and compensating a highly educated workforce \u2014 adds up. “It’s like running a small city, 24-hours a day.”
\nYet, as average tuition and fees for higher education have skyrocketed nationally over the past decade, American incomes have not kept pace, narrowing the affordability gap. At the same time, federal and state aid used to offset those costs is shrinking, forcing institutions of higher education \u2014 both public and private \u2014 to figure out how to diversify their revenue streams\u2026<\/p>\n

Annual Samba Fest April 28<\/strong><\/a>
\nWRTC
\nThe 12th-annual Samba Fest takes place April 28 on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. The event runs 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and features a variety of local, regional and international artists. The fest takes place rain or shine and admission is free.
\nWRTC coverage starts at noon with Sam Braga, Chris Cowles and other staff members who will be interviewing artists, organizers, dignitaries and spectators as well as providing an overview of the proceedings. Click here to listen live.
\nThe main stage will be located behind 240 New Britain Ave., with parking available around the Koeppel Community Sports Center, on New Britain Avenue, Summit Street and Broad Street.
\nArtists include 30-plus musicians directly from Brazil (Adrianna, Gilvan de Oliveira Trio, Meninos de Minas with Mai(accent)ra Baldaia and Guilherme Ventura, Jose (accent) Paulo, Ginga Brasileira, Friendz World Music, Zikina, representatives from the Congado Association Itabira) as well as local groups \u2014 Trinity Samba Ensemble, Trinity Steel and Hall High School Choirs.
\nIn addition to musical performances, the event will also include drum building with Trinity alumnus Oludare Bernard \u201915, Amazing Face Art, Juggle Joy, and various Trinity campus organizations. Several food trucks, including Samba\u2019s Cuisine, Sweet Pan Brazilian Desserts, and Story and Soil Coffee will also be present the entire day.
\n\u201cThe 12th anniversary celebration of Samba Fest is a virtual panorama of Brazilian and world music and culture,\u201d says Eric Galm<\/strong><\/a>, the creator and producer of the event. \u201cThere will be everything from the refined strains of contemporary jazz-influenced melodies and harmonies, the hard edge of grit and perseverance from working class communities and exciting dance workshops.\u201d
\nGalm, an associate professor of music and ethnomusicology at Trinity, where he directs the Samba Ensemble and is the coordinator for the music track of the Trinity in Trinidad Global Learning Site.
\n\u201cThe optimistic musical carnival-like atmosphere,\u201d says Galm, \u201cis a great way to sample the flavor and feeling of Brazil.\u201d
\nFor directions and additional information, click here. For general information, contact the Austin Arts Center Box Office at 860-297-2199. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. and Saturday from 1-6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u2018Monet & Architecture\u2019 Review: Watching a Painter Build His Career<\/strong> <\/a>– By Mary Tompkins Lewis<\/strong> <\/a>
\nWall Street Journal<\/em>
\nLondon – The French Impressionist Claude Monet\u2019s paintings of landscape, lush gardens and the sea as captured in sunlight or through veils of atmospheric effects have largely defined our perception of his art and its appeal to modern viewers. Though scholars have studied his works through the lens of history or as harbingers of 20th-century abstraction, a fresh approach to Monet\u2019s exceedingly familiar painting has become a rare phenomenon. The National Gallery\u2019s \u201cMonet & Architecture,\u201d organized by Prof. Richard Thomson of the University of Edinburgh, is one such event. The exhibition, in which 77 meticulously curated canvases (many rarely seen) trace a novel path through the painter\u2019s long career, substantially enriches the way one approaches and remembers the art of an artist we thought we knew.
\nArchitecture mattered to Monet. It provided geometric structure and formal order for Monet\u2019s untamed natural vistas, and indispensable scaffolding on which to hang the evanescent effects he sought to capture on canvas. It could make recognizable a rural subject or urban street scene otherwise buried under the glimmer of his painterly touch, or establish a sense of time or a semblance of mood beyond the reach of his brush. Perhaps most evocative is the show\u2019s suggestion that architectural subjects could stimulate the artist\u2019s insatiable appetite for experimentation\u2026
\n\u2014Ms. Lewis teaches art history at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Reagan Aide\u2019s New Job: Downplay \u2018Polish Complicity in the Holocaust<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Daily Beast<\/em>
\nA former speechwriter and special assistant for President Reagan and then-Vice President George H.W. Bush has been quietly assisting a Polish Warsaw-based organization to minimize the Polish role in the Holocaust, a Daily Beast review of foreign lobbying records has found.
\nThe records, filed under the Justice Department\u2019s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), include a document signed by Clark Judge, the former speechwriter, stating that he would \u201crectify the false narrative, dangerous to Poland’s national security and roles in NATO and the EU, of Polish complicity in the Holocaust, extermination camps, and other war crimes.\u201d\u2026
\n\u2026The bill renders illegal the use of phrases like \u201cPolish death camps,\u201d making them punishable by up to three years in prison.
\nThe bill has been championed by Poland\u2019s right-wing Law and Justice party, to which Duda claimed membership until becoming an independent in 2015\u2014–though he maintains a close relationship with Law and Justice.
\n\u201cThe most direct reason for (the law) is Poland\u2019s internal politics,\u201d Samuel Kassow<\/strong><\/a>, a Trinity College historian, told PolitiFact last month. \u201cThe Law and Justice Party in power has a base that is very nationalistic and that is very angry at what it sees as people ignoring Polish suffering during the war, people not paying attention to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 where 200,000 Poles were killed.\u201d
\nIn response to the legislation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had \u201cno tolerance for distortion of truth, the rewriting of history and the denial of the Holocaust.\u201d
\nThe U.S. has not been silent on the matter, either, though perhaps not in the way one might think. According to a report by Israel\u2019s Channel 10 News quoting senior Israeli officials, the Trump administration\u2014including Vice President Mike Pence himself\u2014pressured Israel\u2019s government and its opposition to shut down criticism of the Polish law\u2026<\/p>\n

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