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CSA Hot Pot

May 14, 2010

Zoe McLaughlin

Maybe this bit of sentimentality was brought on by the fact that I was standing in a normal kitchen, not a tiny dorm kitchen or an industrial-sized co-op kitchen.

Asian Pop Night, etc.

April 10, 2010

Zoe McLaughlin

I pointed out that no one in CSA is going to go out there and start any sort of dance-off, but that bit of sanity seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Broken Spring

April 3, 2010

John West

In this post: vegetable gardening, homemade compost bins, the anti-rot properties of cedar, sleep, Wilder Voice, inscrutable comics, the Coal River Valley, Obie activism, and much, much more.

The Ballad of Balboa

April 1, 2010

Aries Indenbaum

One of the best dancers in America lives in Cleveland: Valerie Salstrom. OSwing, in its great and powerful wisdom, invited her to visit Oberlin for a weekend to teach balboa and blues.

Building a magazine from the ground up

March 20, 2010

Sam Jewler

I spent the last two years of my life learning journalism at the Oberlin Review. But the time came for change, and now I've used what I learned there to help create a new environmental magazine at Oberlin.

Chinese New Year Banquet!

February 28, 2010

Zoe McLaughlin

How exactly were we supposed to tape a tea light in a lantern? Did that even matter, since they wouldn't be able to see the tea light anyway?

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