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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sign beside the thick single door into the Upstairs at the Middle East Club in Central Square proclaims the room’s capacity to be 194 people. A glimpse into the club last Friday however left one with the distinct impression that such an official sounding regulation was little more than ceremonial. Indeed, the spirited crowd looked to number well over 200 as the Kickovers, one of Boston’s up-and-coming pop-punk bands, put on a frenetic and energetic show. Although ostensibly opening for Brenden Benson and the Well Fed Boys (who gained prominence recently...

Author: By Nathaniel D. Myers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room For Squares | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...baby boy ("Play with me, or I'll break your arm!" he squalls to Chihiro); her enforcers are three severed heads that follow her like bowling balls with a grudge. But as in the best fantasies, Spirited Away creates a fully imagined world: hundreds of critters, each with a distinct personality, populate the descending circles of this teeming dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: High Spirits | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...they went to work on him, his story featured a theme of exclusivity. "If you want a symbol for universal humanity, go to Adam," he says. "Don't go to Abraham, because his whole story is about the singling out of one guy to found a new family, a distinct family marked off from the rest of humanity. He was always a particularist." Another stumbling block between Jews and Muslims is that they are working from two different texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...story by H.H. Munro, about a housecat who, upon being taught to speak, reveals its owner's most embarrassing secrets. Fantastic animals become a kind of sub-theme, as in David Lasky's adaptation of E.A. Poe's "The Raven." Testing the definition of a comic, instead of containing distinct images, the panels themselves form a picture when viewed as a whole. "Orchid" splendidly mixes modern comix storytelling with a bygone era's mastery of prose and atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix Cornucopias | 9/20/2002 | See Source »

...Philippe literally embodied that space between two distinct but related worlds, the African continent and its diaspora,” Gates told the New York Times this weekend...

Author: By Emily M. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Africana.com Editor, 31, Dies | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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