Follow Tim Cahill to Death Valley, Brown Bags Are Out. Green Lunches Are In, Awards for American Gangster?

Adventurer writer extraordinaire, alumnus Tim Cahill, has trekked through the lowest and hottest place in America–the largest national park outside Alaska. Check out his fabulous feature on Death Valley in this month’s issue of National Geographic: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/death-valley/cahill-text.html

 

This weekend, alumna Amy Hemmert, the cofounder of Laptop Lunches (a very cool way to pack a lunch and protect the environment at the same time!) will be on hand at the San Francisco Green Festival at the SF Concourse Exhibition Center. According to her monthly newsletter, you just might find “great ideas, positive energy, abundant hope…and earth-friendly holiday gifts.” For more information: www.laptoplunches.com

‘American Gangster,’ written by alumnus Steve Zaillian, is reviewed in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Critic Peter Travers writes, “Call it ‘the black  Scarface’ or ‘the Harlem Godfather’ or just one hell of an exciting movie, but the fact-based 1970s-era ‘American Gangster’ is already looking like a major awards contender.” Read the entire review here: http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/14592531/review/16971598/american