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...lines marked by his own cadence (Cianci, for example, often stopped and looked pointedly at the audience to elicit laughter), it was clear that they represented one voice.In many ways, the original design of Gray’s performances was preserved. The set consisted of three black platforms, some dark simple furniture on which the actors perched, and a simple backdrop that changed color as the monologues changed in tone and content. Each actor took turns reading Gray’s words from their black binder, occasionally moving around the set but never breaking out of character.The actors resisted Gray?...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At ICA Event, Spalding Gray has ‘Stories Left to Tell’ | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...Kanye plays the poor-little-rich-rapper card while simultaneously re-enacting his latest acid trip. The video opens with West in sunglasses and a color-block sweater—think Will Smith on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”—against a dark background which unexpectedly starbursts into sensory-overload. Wildly colorful images are digitized and distorted, stuttering choppily from frame to pixilated frame. Weak-stomached watchers beware: you may find “Welcome to Nausea” to be a more accurate title. All the while, in a thinly-veiled attempt...

Author: By Arhana Chattopadhyay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Kanye West | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Arboretum” and a species of western Indian grass as their namesake, it is not surprising that the genre of their music is self-described as “Naturalismo.” With “Tight Knit” Vetiver is leaving the dark, comfortable environs of the forest and setting off into the new territory of the night sky. The result is a less consistently redolent and distinctive but more exciting and sociable collection of songs than we have heard from Vetiver before. Bandleader and songwriter Andy Cabic plays all of the instruments on many...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vetiver | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...soda. As the town folk retreated to their homes, dusk gave way to night and only the outlines of the wind-blown palm trees could be seen swaying against the starry sky of the moonless night. Amador and Iglesias, whom I had been talking to moments earlier in the dark, were suddenly snoring in their hammocks. I sat in the back of pickup truck trying not to smell like vampire bait and hoping I wasn't in charge of the hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Vampire Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

Confusion about bats is understandable, considering the scientists who named them were equally confused. According to vampire-bat expert Bill Schutt, a zoologist and author of the book Dark Banquet, about 10 species of bats were erroneously named "vampires," while the true blood feeders were given more innocuous-sounding Latin names. "Bats [with scientific names that include] Vampyrum, Vampyrops, Vampyrina, Vampyressa, Vampyriscus and Vampyrodes aren't sanguivores [blood feeders], while Desmodus, Diaemus and Diphylla are true vampires," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Vampire Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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