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The Cry of The Reed Friday to Sunday, April 18-20, 2008, 8 p.m. Wimberly Theater, 527 Tremont St., Boston In a play by Sinan Unel, a photojournalist and her colleague are captured by insurgents in Iraq. Sevgi is given one telephone call, which she chooses to use to talk to her estranged mother. The lines […]
Akwaaba!: Re-presenting Africa to You Friday, April 18, 2008, 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Levin Ballroom Akwaaba means welcome in the Akan language of Ghana. Appropriate, because at this event, sponsored by the African Students Organization, you’ll be introduced to African Culture and History. Special guest Banky W, an artist who plays a large range […]
This year, Culture X was included as part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Needless to say, Culture X is the largest and one of the best shows held on campus. This year’s show was no different, with more than the usual handful of outstanding acts. Another more noticeable change, however: Spingold […]
Improvisational music remains one of the most exhilarating forms of performing art. Artists who can tame its fickle muse have the power to manifest the flotsam of a group’s collective unconscious, exploding traditional notions of creative conception. When they fail, however, the results sound more like a bad acid trip. When I went to see […]
You know those bands whose mainstream popularity is helped greatly by its music’s appearance on a television show or movie? Like The Shins and Garden State or Kimya Dawson and Juno. Well, Spoon is one of those bands and its breakthrough was thanks to The O.C. After relatively rough beginnings, Texan indie rock band Spoon […]
Think of it as the fashion world’s way of “slumming it.” More and more high-end fashion designers are putting to their thousand-dollar designs on hold to design for the masses. For instance, this month, British textile designer Celia Birtwell released a line of flowy blouses and dresses exclusively in Express stores, and this is a […]
The Constantines are one hell of a band. Three albums into their career, they have won over a devoted cult following and critical acclaim. 2001’s self-titled debut was a blazing set of post-punk and Fugazi-inspired songs, both revolutionary and sentimental. Beneath the fire-branding tracks, Constantines contained some small-scale gems. The scary crawl of “Hyacinth Blues” […]
The pillars of the world are crumbling, Falling into the darker ocean as they left the darkness of earth Light, white, blindingly beautiful light The kind that is pure and unkind in its harsh illumination of reality Darkness seeps in uninvited, obscuring the light, Whose bright life brings truth to our eyes. What have we […]
