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Vampires are demon lovers - courtly but toxic beaux, your dreamiest, most dangerous blind date. That's been the movie norm, from the Bela Lugosi Dracula in 1931 to today's Twilight saga. But there's another view of the tradition, an alterna-vamp, that begins with the first important horror movie, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, and was touched on in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and the Francis Coppola Dracula. It's the vampire as pure predator, a gaunt, subhuman pestilence, the ultimate parasite whose host is the rest of us. Nothing sexy about these creatures, or their...
Issuing an alternative currency is perfectly legal, as long as it is treated as taxable income and consists of paper bills rather than coins. In the U.S., where local currencies were popular during the Depression, the biggest alterna-cash system is in Massachusetts' Berkshire County. Go to one of several banks there, hand a teller $95 and get back $100 worth of BerkShares, a nice little discount designed to reel in users. BerkShares are printed on special paper (by a local business, naturally--a subsidiary of Crane Paper Co., which has been printing U.S. greenbacks since 1879). And since...
...long-awaited Birds and the Bees club party lived up to the hype with lots of dirty grinding and scantily clad vixens. In the Quincy cage, the alterna-crowd wilded out to the soulful stylings of Clem Wright and the Star Wars-inspired rocking out of So Long Princess...
...indicate a desire for more student participation in planning future events. In past festivals where the President’s Office has offered funding, student control was more limited; however, this year the dynamic of student input has changed. During the preparations for the 2003 Springfest, which featured alterna-rock band The Verve Pipe as a performer, the president’s office, in addition to the HCC, had “some input” in the artists being considered for performance, recalls Michael R. Blickstead ’05, former vice-president of the Undergraduate Council...
...however, there was a dissenting voice. The usual liberal-feminist coterie of Summers-haters was challenged by a lone Summers supporter who wandered in from across the hall. This brave soul was buttoned-up in a simple ensemble he might have purchased at the Gap, in contrast to the alterna-duds others were sporting. Abstaining from the bubbly, he light-heartedly mocked the celebrants with a sarcastic take on a protest chant overheard at an anti-Summers rally. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Larry, Larry, go away!” he shouted. “Larry spits...