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...traveling companion, Mak cuts a charming figure. But his portrait of the last century is almost unremittingly dark. The mayor's scythe sweeps through the book as Mak tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors...
Brian Viglione, percussionist for The Dresden Dolls, made it a point to prove in a recent workshop that he is anything but a “Coin-Operated Boy,” the title of one of the group’s biggest hits. At the event, held Monday night in Hilles Library, Viglione emphasized the importance of individuality and focusing on the present—both in art and in life. The workshop was sponsored by the Office of the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll (HCARAR), and it drew a crowd...
...race to market, Plastic Logic took an early and significant lead. On Jan. 3, the company announced it would build a factory in Dresden, Germany, to create its flexible, portable text display - a device that would let you carry your whole library on a sheet of plastic. That makes it the first plant proposed anywhere that would produce plastic transistors on a commercial scale. Plastic Logic's plant attracted $100 million from such backers as Oak Investment Partners, Intel, Bank of America and BASF. "We believe there is nothing silicon transistors can do that polymer transistors won't be able...
...collaboration with cast and crew members from the American Repertory Theatre (ART), The Dresden Dolls and director Marcus Stern have recreated Grass’ subterranean nightspot. “The Onion Cellar” will run through...
...Dresden Dolls, who got their start in and around Boston, the production is a homecoming of sorts. Palmer says she’s been coming to Harvard Square’s Café Pamplona for years, and one song on “A Is For Accident”—the Dresden Dolls’ debut album—was recorded in Sanders Theatre...