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Talented DJs like VanMiddlesworth and Zisiadis consider the obligation to pander a good reason to avoid Harvard’s conventional party scene. “I DJed at a bunch of places around campus at the end of sophomore year and just realized that to do that you have to stay on top of what music people are listening to. I wasn’t very good at that and didn’t want to spend so much time listening to T-Pain,” said VanMiddlesworth. Now, though, “I basically have retreated...
...have a worse time—your set will be worse overall.” For Thorn, songs like “Party in the U.S.A.” are not intrinsically problematic; according to him, “the mainstream party culture at Harvard is focused around a really small canon of Top 40 music but I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing... I don’t feel disappointed not playing the music I’d rather listen to on my own. That’s not what those parties...
...secular ritual to bring people to a place of ecstasy.” This moment, she elaborated, embodies the term “communitas,” or an “über-community feeling: [the] feeling of in a moment being boundaryless, being connected to everyone around you. The DJ is trying to maintain that feeling, picking the right song at the right time to keep the crowd dancing at this moment of ecstatic communitas...
...human will is messy, and inevitably collides into those around it. Try as one might to make people do what one wants, there is always some unpredictable element on the margin that can overturn it all. In setting “Tosca” in the middle of a totalitarian régime, LHO’s production suggests that the potential for chaos that lies at the outer rim of any agenda is the essence of freedom itself—that, whether in victory or tragedy, we live most fully where the plans of others fail. The stakes...
...Eatery, the defending champion, clad in a boxer's robe and wearing a giant title belt. "We do classic burgers at Bill's," said Brett Reichler, chef of the upstart Bill's Bar and Burger, a first-time entrant who followed Mendelsohn's lead in having hot models stand around getting out the vote. "What can I say?" said Randy Garutti, czar of Danny Meyer's phenomenally successful Shake Shack. "The Shack burger is a classic...