Writer

Kenneth Best

Ken Best served as editor of UCONN Magazine for 10 years. He is a co-host of the UConn 360 Podcast. He previously covered news and sports in Connecticut for The New York Times, edited the Weekend section for the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time, wrote arts and culture stories syndicated by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and was the media coordinator for Yale-New Haven Hospital. During the summer of 2015 he hosted “Walking a Blues Road,” a weekly program on WHUS in Storrs based on the holdings of the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African-American Musical Culture at UConn’s Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. He is the author of Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Pomegranate Books).

Author Archive

UConn Prof. Janet Pritchard is documenting the complexities of life along the Connecticut River watershed through photography, as in this picture of fly fishing in Pittsburg, N.H. (Photo courtesy of Janet Pritchard)

Janet Pritchard Considers the Lay of the Land with her Photography

UConn's Janet Pritchard talks about her approach to landscape photography as a blending of past and present.

April 2, 2020 | Kenneth Best

Materials arrayed on a table for the Ballard Institute paper puppet workshop.

Ballard Moves Puppet Workshops Online for Family Fun at Home

Undaunted by coronavirus closures, the Ballard Institute Museum of Puppetry is taking its popular puppet-making workshops online.

April 1, 2020 | Kenneth Best

Geno’s Huskies Leave American Conference in Perfect Fashion

The UConn women's basketball team won its final American Athletic Conference tournament this week, capping seven years in the conference without a single loss.

March 10, 2020 | Kenneth Best

Athletics
Student actors perform onstage in the play, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."

Solving the Mystery of the Curious Incident of the Dog at CRT

A new play at UConn will offer a performance specifically for audience members with sensory-input disorders.

March 4, 2020 | Kenneth Best

A group of students in front of the Student Union during an antiwar protest on October 15, 1969.

UConn Through the Viewfinder: Howard Goldbaum’s Campus News Photos

A new exhibit at the Benton Museum of Art captures the turbulence of the late 1960s on campus through the eyes of a student photographer.

February 12, 2020 | Kenneth Best

A drawing by R. Crumb entitled "Keep On Truckin'"

Keep on Truckin’ with the Art of R. Crumb at Contemporary Art Galleries

A new exhibit at UConn features a vast collection of art and memorabilia related to famed underground 'comix' artist R. Crumb.

February 11, 2020 | Kenneth Best

UConn Archives Collections Tell “A Hobo’s Tale”

A new exhibit at the Dodd Center examines the iconic American figure known as the hobo.

February 3, 2020 | Kenneth Best

An archival photo from a May Day parade in New York City in the 1930s, with men marching under a banner that says "We Will Fight Fascism to the Death."

Q&A: The History of Antifascism in the US

Prof. Christopher Vials discusses the new anthology he co-edited, which examines the history of fascism and its opponents throughout U.S. history.

January 29, 2020 | Kenneth Best

Q&A: AI and the Future of Your Mind

Philosopher Susan Schneider discusses some of the complexities surrounding the development of artificial intelligence.

January 23, 2020 | Kenneth Best

UConn men's ice hockey Coach Mike Cavanaugh on the bench during a game.

Men’s Ice Hockey Faces Off in Debut of Connecticut Ice Festival

UConn men's ice hockey Coach Mike Cavanaugh talks about the team's participation in the first-ever Connecticut Ice Festival.

January 22, 2020 | Kenneth Best

Athletics