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After a bizarre, costume-heavy, and not particularly funny musical comedy performance by a group known as Pleaseasaur, Pinback took the stage and launched into a set of crisp, dynamic rock. Vocalists Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow traded off lead and backup duties throughout the set, producing consistently beautiful harmonies. The band’s specialty is the mid-tempo pop-rock nugget, and they succeed in coming up with songs that are always pleasant, but never quite transcendent. This set showed off all the best moments from their 8+ year career...
...sunny morningin southern Mexico that my family gathered in an outdoor kitchen, ready to convert a mountain of ingredients into a four-course feast. Sun-dried chili peppers, fresh nuts, chunk chocolate and a score of other ingredients were waiting to be blended into a spicy mole sauce. Crisp jicamas had been set aside for salad. The buds of Castilian roses would be transformed into ice cream. It was an ambitious menu--especially since none of us had any idea how to make those dishes. But that was the point. We had enrolled in a daylong cooking class during...
...fourth movement’s “Thunderstorm” was the most convincing with its crisp brass pronouncements of thunder and windy string runs...
Haviland, the Harvard ace, tossed all ten frames in what is supposed to be a seven-inning contest, allowing one earned run over 149 pitches. With a crisp fastball pounding down-and-in and his usual knee-buckling curve, he struck out six while allowing just six hits and three walks...
...opus which came to an end in the 10th when Morgan Brown lashed the game-winning single to left with the bases loaded.Haviland, the Harvard ace, tossed all ten frames in what is supposed to be a seven-inning contest, allowing one earned run over 149 pitches. With a crisp fastball pounding down-and-in and his usual knee-buckling curve, he struck out six while allowing just six hits and three walks.For good measure, he also managed to pick off two runners in the fourth inning alone, thwarting a potential Big Green rally.“It was outstanding...