The program to "Collective Voice" offers a peculiar anecdote: Two summers ago, Karen Chernick '06 stumbled upon an anonymous painting while working in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
JustNews: There's been a lot of controversy surrounding your receiving an honorary degree. What's been your reaction?Tony Kushner: I'm not really happy about it.
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.
Miriam Krant, who for over three decades archived the modern Jewish experience through film, died of influenza Feb.
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.
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.
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.
At first glance, it's a perfect hostage scenario: Two damsels, the girlfriends of the two best detectives in Idaville, Fla.
Prof. Stuart Altman (Heller), a prominent health economist, was named the dean of the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, according to a Jan.
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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