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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...club that's been hailed as the temple of satire - its alumni list reads like a Who's Who of modern comedy, from John Belushi and Alan Arkin to Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert - you wouldn't know it to look at its interior. The small, intimate club's black walls and stark stage are meant to keep the focus on the talent; the only signs of its pedigree are the photographs and signatures of the stars who once trod its boards on the walls backstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second City | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...matter how messed up Mary Karr's childhood seemed in The Liars' Club or how tumultuous her adolescence in the follow-up, Cherry, those two best sellers stood as proof that this howlingly funny writer had not only survived but also stayed sufficiently clear-eyed to tell her tales. We loved Karr, but we didn't have to worry about her in adulthood. Or so we thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Memoirist's Club | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...been around Harvard for more than 50 years, through challenge and change, and the wealth of talent in our community never ceases to amaze me,” added the former Lowell House history concentrator and active member of the A.D. final club, whose visage hangs on the wall of the upstairs bar room in the club’s house to this...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Houghton To Leave Harvard Corporation | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Strings of twinkly lights and a strategic re-orientation of the blue plush couches to face the piano gave the normally fluorescent-lit Penthouse a classy, jazz club vibe...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Have We Found the Next Regina Spektor? | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

...that is HarvardFML cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant—every community has its own normal state, around which good and bad become dependent on the shared conditions, and websites like HarvardFML reveal the status quo. “I am a closeted gay man in a final club. FML,” reads one post, expressing a sentiment that betrays the particular heteronormativity and final club atmosphere at Harvard that those outside our community might not have have experienced. The distress expressed is not negated simply because the writer is part of a disproportionately privileged organization. Instead, problems...

Author: By Zachariah P. Hughes | Title: Our Confessional Community | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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