EsleyanWay, for All Your Wes Merchandise Needs

Ed Thorndike '89 and Karen Kaffen-Polascik, the entrepreneurs behind Weswings and Red & Black, have launched their latest venture: esleyanway.com, the "unofficial marketplace for everything Wesleyan":

In esleyanway, you will find all kinds of products created by people associated with Wesleyan. In addition to books, apparel and DVDs, there are downloads and links of mp3s and videos. Many of them free. You can search the site by class year as well as by catagory.

We created esleyanway to help members of the Wesleyan community promote what they have created. While current licensing agreements limit the number of "Wesgear" items, we will be offering plenty of alternative items from local businesses, student groups and alumni.

So this is Amazon for Wesproducts, taking the branding of Wesleyan a pretty significant step up.

So far they've got all the obvious bases covered - among the available products are Weswings and Red & Black t-shirts, MGMT and Dar Williams CDs, Joss Whedon and Michael Bay DVDs, and books by Michael Roth and Mary Roach.

There's also more random stuff like Brunami martial arts fight gear, from Brian Lichtenstein '84.

The site's layout could use some work, but it's impressive that enough Wes-associated products exist to allow this venture - I doubt Amherst or Vassar could match this kind of merchandising.

Dinnertime heads-up: Red & Black Café

For anyone still on campus and planning on having a delicious dinner at Red & Black Café, beware: your options are limited. They've got no soups and no grill, so basically you can get a turkey or tuna sandwich.

Also, they will not be open as scheduled tomorrow, due to the impending snowstorm.

Winter Hours for WesWings, Red&Black Cafe

The kindly people over at Weswings/R&B have sent us their winter break schedules. Also, it turns out you can keep using leftover points from fall semester (if you have any) at Red&Black throughout winter break?? Ridiculous and awesome! (You also can use Middletown cash).

Red & Black Cafe
Through 12/16 - Regular Hours
12/17-12/18: 8am-6pm
12/19: 8am-4pm
12/20-1/5: CLOSED
1/6-1/9: 9am-6pm
1/10-1/11: CLOSED
1/12-1/16: 9am-6pm
1/17: Begin regular hours

Wes Wings
12/17-1/17: CLOSED
1/18: Re-opens for Sunday dinner

Thanksgiving break dining schedule

Bon Appetit has posted the 2008 Thanksgiving Break dining schedule. Check it out to make sure you're not going hungry (and click the image to make it bigger/readable):

Also, the Star & Crescent is open tomorrow (Tuesday 11/25) for lunch but not dinner - the menu is BBQ Chicken/ Tofu, Collard Greens, Creamy Polenta, and Coconut Cookies.

Non-BA-operated: WesWings is open regular hours on Tuesday, and returns for dinner the Sunday we get back. Red & Black Cafe is also open regular hours on Tuesday, and returns for regular hours the Sunday we get back.

Summary: Only the Usdan Marketplace and WesWings are open for dinner on Tuesday night, and nothing else on campus is open until the Sunday we get back for dinner, except Red & Black for lunch Sunday. Yeah, if you're staying on campus, that pretty much sucks. Neon and Cafe Ology will be your friends?

Free Coffee Mugs at R&B

Ed Thorndike '89 says:

The Red & Black Cafe will be giving out free coffee mugs this evening (Thursday) starting at 5:30 p.m. (while they last) Look for upcoming coffee specials with your new mug including free refills all day on Election Day!

Also, WesWings will be having election night specials and will keep our flat screens on past the 8 p.m. results!

Get em while you can!

WesWings closing for Fall Break

WesWings will be open during its regular hours this Friday, but will be closed on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. It will reopen on Tuesday night, for dinner only. The Red & Black Cafe, though, will be open its normal hours throughout break.