Knox Grad Co-Hosts MTV Video Music Awards India
From: MSN - Entertainment India
[2002 Knox graduate] Vir Das is pictured at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards India. More photos…
“Touted as India’s answer to Jay Leno and the funniest guy in India,” Das and Imran Khan co-hosted India’s first-ever MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on March 23.
Das also has his own theatre production company, Weirdass Repertory, that produces both spoofs of big international films as well as “high-content plays,” Das told a newspaper earlier in 2013. “I want to bring back the lost culture of watching plays.” More about Wierdass Repertory…
Vir confirms the news, “In India, award ceremonies follow strict formats, certain rules and regulations. So [our] idea is to break that pattern.”… Adds Imran, “Vir [and I] had a blast while shooting the movie and so I am sure this time around as well it will be a riot and I hope the audiences enjoy us on stage.”… 
[2008 Knox College graduate] Katie Bell is named “One of 8 Great Brooklyn Artists Under 30.” The L Magazine states that she “could be showing nowhere and she’d still make this list because her work is so good. Of course, we’re not exactly the first people who’ve taken note… Bell’s sculptures vary in scale and are made from a mix of traditional and non-traditional materials. Scraps of drywall and wood are often collaged together and affixed to the wall, with paint overlaid as if it were a binding element. The effect is stunning…
[Playwright Tony] Kushner [told New Republic magazine] that he has “a short list of 20 or 30 books that were significant to me” in writing the script of the film Lincoln. Included on that list are Herndon’s Informants and Herndon’s Lincoln, both edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, emeritus faculty and co-directors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. “One of the great joys of working on this,” Kushner said, “is I’ve gotten to read a number of really, really brilliant books… I heartily recommend everything on this list.” 