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Jonathan Fischer


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Festival of the Arts

Sometime around 2 p.m. Sunday, my sensory receptors reached critical mass.I was only an hour into a rather peculiar assignment: Traverse the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts' Performance Festival and cull the best and worst moments into a single article.


A Merely Mediocre Macbeth

To pervert and quote its bard, so foul and fair a Macbeth was never seen.Until this weekend, that is, when William Shakespeare's famous Jacobean tragedy received a faithful but curiously kitschy treatment in the Shapiro Theater, in which murderous betrayal, tragic ambition and blood-soaked comeuppance abounded despite something wicked plaguing the Hold Thy Peace production.


Visiting band The Franklin Kite failed to fly

Post-rock, prog, avant-jazz: Some genres were born nerdy. Cambridge's The Franklin Kite channeled all these styles Saturday at Cholmondley's, blending with mixed results a virtuosic and often adventurous musicianship with pop-rock sensibilities.


BIPAC presents petition to lobbyists

A petition calling on national leaders to "act appropriately and swiftly" to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons presented to the student body passed, according to a communitywide e-mail from Student Union Secretary Aaron Braver '07 Friday.


On The Record: Cat Power

Ignore her indie pedigree: Chan Marshall has always been a soul singer. That she's opened for Liz Phair, recorded with members of Sonic Youth and Dirty Three (not to mention Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl) and made a highly acclaimed career out of her unsettling yet seductive brand of indie folk is negligible-Marshall, the voice behind Cat Power, has always captured a husky, cigarette-stained sensuality that is unique and unmatched among her peers.


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