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...Aesop’s fable “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse,” a mouse from the hinterlands visits his big-city cousin who has long bragged about the superior fare city larders offer. The country mouse finds that while city food is rich, his cousin can partake only by risking his life in a trap or at a cat’s jaws. After narrowly avoiding being eaten on one of these death-defying food forays, the country mouse returns home to enjoy his humble meals in peace...
Chad grew up with Harvard football. He was a spotter for the team as a child. His cousin, David Anderson, joins him in the booth today and thinks about the similarities between the only two regular PA announcers Harvard football has known...
That first book, "Double Happiness" (Shiga Books; 72 pp.; $4.95), self-published through a grant by the invaluable Xeric Foundation begins when Tom, a shy Chinese-American who barely knows how to hold chopsticks, travels from Boston to San Francisco. There he meets a distant cousin immigrant who introduces him to the city's Chinatown. Tom learns to squat on the balls of his feet, wins money at a smoky mah-jongg club, and starts to fall for Li Jian, the cute girl whose karaoke version of "Hey, Jude" is "Hey, Jute." She teaches him to read the fruit merchant...
...electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations: “emo rap” and its unfortunately named cousin “smart...
...Post-show in(s)anity. Kirby’s 30-year-old cousin Dustin offers to buy me a shot, though he insists, “I’m not a groupie.” I later find out he’s an accountant...