Word: crowd
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...There, the winners of each prelim will compete for the ultimate prize: their name in Rolling Stone magazine and on RollingStone.com, a three-track EP recording session at a top studio in New York, and a cash prize. The stage was set, the Loft packed with a sold-out crowd of low-top Nike Dunk SB’s (and five pairs of parents’ penny loafers). Tommy Doyle’s great upstairs venue was well-lit with a low-slanted cabin ceiling, a small but very visible stage, and good sound. In fact, despite the weirdly-placed...
...product, the spirit of the spoken word tradition and its interactive nature are rarely available to students looking for a consistently available venue. One stronghold at Harvard remains however; on Thursday nights, artists at the Harvard Epworth Methodist Church unleash the Unchainable Squawk.Every week, an avant-garde, atypically bohemian crowd sporting overgrown hairdos and too-tight jeans gathers for a “session” at the Squawk Coffeehouse—an open mic remedy that banishes the stress of the long week. Unlike open mics geared to one form of artistry like music or poetry, Squawk opens...
...flexible tonal palette deserved the most attention. The preludes, which became an amalgam of musical reflections under Lang’s touch, proved that while Lang sometimes employs frivolous shows of technique to draw in his audience, the thought and soul within his playing truly captivates listeners. With the crowd already coming to its feet, Lang jumped into Chopin’s “Heroique” Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat Major, his final number. The treacherous double thirds at the beginning were no obstacle to the pianist, who zipped through the chromatic introduction to settle into...
...accuracy with which Mendoza captures the environment of his characters.By the end of “Serbis,” no problems have been resolved. One cousin throws his clothes into a backpack and, without a word, leaves the theatre, meaningfully weaving his way against the candle-bearing crowd of a funeral procession. But the rest are left behind to attend to their dilapidated movie house-of-homosexuals, caught between the old world and the new. “I’m not choosing sides!” shouts Naday in an earlier scene, and this attitude...
Sitting in press row at TD Banknorth Garden, with lights dimmed and strobes flaring, it was easy to envision a playoff atmosphere with a sold-out crowd for the Bruins or Celtics...