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Food Blog: Dress Codes and Props to Scripps for Dr. Bob's
By TSL Editors | Blog I just got back from the fantastic film "Coco Avant Chanel" starring the always delightful Audrey Tautou as the famed fashion house's designer. Seeing the constant stream of various fashions in the film got my foodie mind thinking about fashion... in the food world. What to wear at a restaurant is always quite the predicament, especially in Los Angeles where ...
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Editor's Notes: New Issue of the Elephant Room
By TSL Editors | Blog Check it out here: http://saje47.wordpress.com/the-elephant-room/."The purpose of The Elephant Room is to encourage self-education toward understanding the multi-layered system of privilege and oppression that we are all a part of and affected by everyday. It is an anonymous written forum meant to serve as a springboard for further thought and dialogue on questions of power dynamics. Each edition of The ...
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Green Blog: Of Trays and Wolverines
By TSL Editors | Blog In the past weeks, there has been a lot of debate on the 5C campuses about the consortium dining halls’ decision to go “trayless”. This change not only drew opinions from students on both sides in the form of published articles (Nick Hubbard PO ’11 in The Student Life and Sam Gordon PO ’11 in Claremont Progressive), but mainstream media ...
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Food Blog: Foundry on Melrose and the Ethical Question for Critics
By TSL Editors | Blog So the secret restaurant near Hollywood I returned to a few nights ago was Eric Greenspan's Foundry on Melrose. The experience was night and day from my visit on a Tuesday night last January when there were 3 tables with people in the dining room, the food was off, and there were only 2 servers- the bus boy and the ...
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Dean's Blog: Thoughts on Student Work Allotment
By TSL Editors | Blog I read the story on student work on campus (“Student Wage Allotments Cut for Non-Financial Aid Pomona Students” by Lauri Valerio) in this week’s TSL with great interest – I also have listened to many questions and concerns from students about the decision to cut the student wage budgets and reduce the allocation cap for non-financial aid students to $1,000. ...
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Food Blog: Jar—Certainly Not Just Another Restaurant
By TSL Editors | Blog For the week leading up to my recent visit to Suzanne Tracht's sleek modern chophouse Jar, I kept trying to figure out what in the world a jar has to do with a steakhouse? Do they cook their filets in a some new jar-like oven? Does Ms. Tracht love cherry preserves served in jars? Well, as it turns out, the ...
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Dean's Blog: Post-Harwood Halloween Thoughts
By TSL Editors | Blog Harwood Halloween night with 2 alcohol transports from Pomona’s campus (one of them was not a Pomona student). Is one alcohol transport too many? Can we work together to get to a point where students are not drinking to such excess or in such a way (for example, pre-gaming with shots) that requires calling paramedics, and transporting the students to ...
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Food Blog: The Sushi Classics—Nobu Matsuhisa and Katsuya Uechi
By TSL Editors | Blog Sushi has certainly been giving tacos a run for their money this past decade for the definitive "dish" of Los Angeles, like deep dish pizza in Chicago and sourdough bread up in San Francisco. However, sushi actually has been an important of the Los Angeles culinary landscape since the 1980's ... Nobu Matsuhisa was creating Peruvian-Japanese fusion sushi long before ...
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