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Hundreds of students and parents braved rain and snow to queue up outside the packed Lowell Lecture Hall on Saturday night to catch the Black Students Association’s annual Apollo Night. Apollo Night, modeled after the Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, allows the audience to pick their favorite of competing performers by cheering or jeering. Before the show, co-emcee Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 instructed the audience, including parents visiting for freshman weekend, to “get up and dance.” The audience on Saturday night was vocal...
Gross, Malda and Dutton aren't rich or famous or even conspicuously good-looking. What they have in common is that they all edit blogs: amateur websites that provide news, information and, above all, opinions to rapidly growing and devoted audiences drawn by nothing more than a shared interest or two and the sheer magnetism of the editor's personality. Over the past five years, blogs have gone from an obscure and, frankly, somewhat nerdy fad to a genuine alternative to mainstream news outlets, a shadow media empire that is rivaling networks and newspapers in power and influence. Which raises...
...bloggers as a business by selling advertising on their sites. So far they aren't showing detectible signs of editorial corruption by their corporate masters--two of Denton's blogs, gawker.com and wonkette.com are among the most corrosively witty sites on the Web--but they've lost their amateur status forever...
Dear FM’s Amateur Ethicist, I bought a friend a number of gift vouchers to About Hair. Recently, I learned of the prostitution allegations Cambridge police have levied against the shop, and I’ve been struck with guilt. Should I tell him about the shop’s dirty goings-on? Should I be concerned for him or his safety? I feel really embarrassed about the situation. Thanks, Ms. Worried at the Breakfast Table Dear Ms. WBT, I understand that you’re concerned that you patronized a shop that may have broken...
Before he was an amateur fashion designer, Travis R. Wood ’07 was a skater. “I usually dressed in a skater-brand sweatshirt and jeans,” says Wood, sporting painted jeans and an inside-out Garment District sweater. “My father looked at me one day and told me that I looked like everyone else.” Realizing that his father was right, Wood was inspired during his gap year in China to start making his own clothes with the fabrics he found there. Wood is one of a group...