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Meals Under $20 | Chicken, swiss chard and polenta

November 5th, 2009 by

Nate Silver prepares pan roasted chicken with balsamic mushrooms, swiss chard, and creamy polenta. Photography by Scout MacEachron.

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To read the entire recipe and see directions to prepare this for yourself, see Silver’s column, “Chicken, chard and polenta serve up plenty of flavor.”

Meals Under $20 | Brie burger, cabbage and carrot slaw and blue potato chips

October 1st, 2009 by

Nate Silver prepares a brie burger with sauteed red onions; jicama, red cabbage and carrot slaw; and blue potato chips. Photography by Scout MacEachron. View the column and recipe here.

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Vassar College’s first all-water Serenading

September 9th, 2009 by

From Miscellany News photographers Juliana Halpert, Eric Schuman and Dana Harris comes a record in images of the first all-water Serenading at the College.

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From Assistant Online Editor Liz Jordan’s article about the change: “This year, the day of the tradition was moved from a Friday to Saturday, and faculty were absent from the event. Most notably, though, the campus-wide food fight between seniors and freshmen that previously marked the beginning of the academic year was no longer a food fight—instead, a water-only Serenading took place last Saturday, Sept. 5.” To continue reading and to find out more about the procedures and processes behind revisions, click here.

Drawn by New York

September 2nd, 2009 by

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center features “Drawing in New York,” a new exhibit featuring six centuries of watercolors and drawings at the New-York Historical Society. Artists range from

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This exhibition has been organized by the New-York Historical Society. The exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and the publication of the catalogue and its research were generously supported by The Getty Foundation, Leonard L. and Ellen Milberg, Barbara and Richard Debs, Pam and Scott Schafler, Eli Wilner & Company, Inc., The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, Alexander Acevedo, and Graham Arader.