Taking Center Stage
Academy Award, Tony, and Grammy winners call it home. So does the National Symphony Orchestra. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., is one of the foremost performance venues in the United States, and now a group of Shepherd School students have been invited to grace its stage.

by Ellen Chang

Cinema Rénové
A recent visitor to the Rice Media Center marveled at the pine wood floor with its shiny smooth surface. For years, the floor had been covered with a charcoal-black paint, but last summer, it was sanded, polished, and coated with a protective sealant, revealing the true beauty of the wood.

A Global View
While the cosmetic changes and equipment improvements to the Rice Media Center generated the building’s rebirth, there still remained a problem of how to get people to attend the cinema.

A Noble Vision
The director of various documentaries, including Who Killed the Fourth Ward?, Blue was hired by John and Dominique de Menil, who decided in 1969 to support a new media center at Rice.

by David D. Medina

As the Grass Grows
If you leave the kiddie pool out on the lawn too long, you end up with a circle of yellow grass. The biological process behind this axiom of suburban lawn blight also is responsible for the 32-foot-long photograph that covered the back wall of Rice Gallery in January and February.

by David D. Medina