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...showcase a side of the Square that’s more personal, more in the background (or invisible) during the ordinary work week,” Bannatyne wrote. Subjects include Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, the Fallen Angels (a Harvard a cappella group), and the famous Grolier Poetry Book Shop. One video focuses solely on fortune cookies at The Kong. Another asks people on the street for their opinions on love, eliciting responses that range from tales of personal romance to a declaration, “[Love] sucks...women will get you in trouble every time...
...Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs is an important force in breaking down national barriers in East Asia. Jung-Sook Park described Hallyu as an “organic power,” with the potential to reduce cultural tensions across East...
...great comedy, but it was Felix Mendelssohn’s music that sparked the transformation of the delightful play into a full ballet. In 1962, New York City Ballet premiered “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” introducing not only the famous play as a new ballet but also the famous dancer, Balanchine, as a new choreographer...
...plenty of love and peace.All were gathered together to take a fresh look at Rickie Lee Jones, a once-prominent singer-songwriter who is making a comeback with the release of her new album, “The Sermon on Exposition Blvd.” Jones first became famous with the release of her self-titled album in 1979, and enjoyed great success in the rock/pop world of the 1980s, eventually winning two Grammies. It was clear on Saturday night that while Jones may have a new album, she does not necessarily have “new” fans.That...
Just days before the American invasion of Iraq, Nahdi Mahdi, one of Iraq's most famous comedians, was starring in a play called The Wanderers at the National Theatre in Baghdad to a packed house of almost 2,000 people. Like many then living in the misinformation bubble created by Saddam's regime, war was the farthest thing from his mind. "It was such a surprise," he said of the war soon after. "We never thought it would happen." Now war is constantly on Mahdi's mind, and he himself is sort of wandering, one of the million Iraqi refugees...