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Almost every major grassroots-turned-pop trend in recent history has had, at its center, a basement or a nightclub in which the phenomenon was born. ’77 punk had CBGB’s; Grunge had Seattle’s Crocodile; Berkeley punk had the Gilman St. Theater. And so Harvard must have its share of venues...
Kubik, who arrived in Chicago in 1987, when he was not yet three years old (one of his first memories, he says, was seeing the black and white checkered floor of his grandmother’s basement, where he and his parents lived for three years after emigrating) has seen Walesa before. About five years ago, Walesa spoke in Chicago, though in a setting very different from the IOP forum. He spoke then without a translator, addressing a crowd of locals gathered in the neighborhood Polish Catholic Church. (“Chicago has as many Polish people as Warsaw...
...alikes frolicked around the Yard with drafts of government theses in tow. Not that I knew what theses were—I had only heard about them in With Honors, a film starring Fraser as a hunky Harvard student and Joe Pesci as a homeless man living in the basement of Widener Library...
...alongs. But even if the album doesn’t always do justice to the act, it should be more than enough to expand their audience for their next burst of deranged brilliance. They’re here, they’re weird, and they’re making basement hip-hop with uncommon glee...
...only power tripping as traffic directors on Freshman move-in day that gets them off. Apparently, a strategically placed knee-to-the-groin on the dance floor will suffice. At Key’s final Freshman Week fete in the Fox basement, amidst pelvic thrusts, crotch heaves and a one-woman choir of orgasms that brought everyone in the room to attention, Abbas, ever the sex-kitten, could be overheard admitting in mid-pant, “you’re a great dancer but I really want to fuck [other fellow keyster] Dave?...