From the alums who brought NYC the Freegan Fashion Show comes Surreal Estate, a new community space planned for 15 Thames Street in Brooklyn, NY. The project includes several recent alums of Wesleyan.

Check out their Myspace page:

www.myspace.com/surrealestate

From their Myspace page: 

SUR

Did you know that Wesleyan has a student-organized English as a Second Language program that pairs student-tutors with Wesleyan's workers? 

Check out the information available on the group's website (needs some updating, but it's really cool to learn more about the recent histo

Belly Boat is comprised of Silvie Margot-Deutsch '09 and her best friend who plays the accordion and goes to some other school that is not Wesleyan and so must be ignored. Just kidding, her very marvelous name is Zoe Ruth Cusmus Latta and she's really neat from what I remember. Only met her a couple times

Their summer tour was made up of three solo performers including Max Horwich '08, Ben Seretan '10, and Jacob Milstein '09. Max told me in an email earlier this summer that each performed their "own material, sometimes alone and sometimes supported by the other two."

Check out the three tour mates' Myspace pages for more: 

Wesleyan has finally found a good use for the huge, abandoned building in the center of campus, home to the previous campus center before that monstrosity Usdan came along last year. The Davenport Campus Center is slated to become Wesleyan's new Center for Social Justice. Last semester an

The newly established Green Street Arts Center in Middletown's North End neighborhood began as a community project of Wesleyan University and has taken on a life of its own in the rapidly changing area. Many Wesleyan students volunteer and have work-study positions at Green Street. It's a becomin

MOBIUS BAND according to Wikipedia: Mobius Band is an electronic rock trio from Brooklyn, New York consisting of drummer Noam Schatz, bassist, singer and keyboardist Peter Sax and guitarist, singer and keyboardist Ben Sterling.

MOBIUS BAND according to Wesleyan fans: Awesome! 

Check their Myspace: 

 http://www.myspace.com/mobiusband

MGMT.

Even the frat boys of Beta were blasting MGMT songs at their parties over the last week (although their MGMT picks were hideously mismatched with their "I'm a white boy from the suburbs and I consume mainstream rap to feel like a rebel" musical choices). Enough about the crowd. Everybody's a fan. E

Get your work-study spots quick! It's that time of year and picking the right work-study job can be as important as picking your classes. Don't take working while in school lightly. College jobs are a great way to gain valuable work experience, especially in the areas of education, lite

...as does the rest of the newer architecture at Wesleyan. Why they keep hiring the same conservative firm is beyond me. There must be an alumni discount in there somewhere. What else can explain why Wesleyan keeps adding more ugly, soul-crushing architecture to its grounds? I'm not even being melodramatic, pe