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...read horror comics this week, you'd do better turning to Japan. The wealth of material being imported far outpaces the amount and quality produced domestically in the horror genre. Three outstanding recent releases range in style from a twist on the teenagers-in-peril subgenre (Junji Ito's Museum of Terror) to extreme gross-out humor (Toru Yamazaki's Octopus Girl) to a disturbing medical thriller by Japan's most revered comix creator (Osamu Tezuka's Ode to Kirihito...
...various publishers of translated manga, Dark Horse comics has distinguished itself in publishing superior horror titles, releasing five different multi-volume horror titles this year alone. Among them were two that should not be missed: Junji Ito's Museum of Terror and Toru Yamazaki's Octopus Girl. Arguably Japan's premier horror manga-ka, Ito has a fevered imagination that has given us Uzumaki, about a town beset by spirals, and Gyo, about dead fish that sprout legs and wreak havoc upon the land. Museum of Terror (two volumes so far, $14 each) collects the so-called Tomie tales...
Royall’s Medford estate—which includes the only remaining slave quarters in the northeast—is now a museum...
Growing up in Los Angeles, Paris A. Spies-Gans ’09 worked in the education department at the Getty Villa museum and became accustomed to spending much of her time there. When she came to Harvard, however, she found herself longing for that level of involvement with museum life. She found, too, that many of her friends—including her blockmate Anna M. Chen ’09—shared this desire. Together, the two contacted Lynne Stanton, the coordinator of public education at the Harvard University Art Museums. Stanton—who had serendipitously been...
...overall,” Eldridge says. Money is pouring into non-profit organizations, and Eldridge says consultants can give vital advice on managing it. “Organizations like the [Bill and Melinda] Gates Foundation are moving non-profits towards a more corporate model,” Eldridge says. Museums and other cultural institutions having been adopting ideas from the business world for decades. Eldridge says she has trouble getting excited about for-profit consulting projects, but she finds the non-profit niche very appealing. “I think it’s a happy medium...