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...fascinating. Unlike Philadelphia mash-up guru Gregg Gillis (a.k.a Girl Talk), who mixes hit pop songs and familiar classics, many of the YouTube clips selected by Kutiman, when viewed apart from one another, are ... well... bunk. Who wants to watch - or, for that matter, hear - a vintage fire siren wailing away on a piece of plywood? Or a Cuban percussion instrument made from a gourd. OK, that one is kinda cool, but footage of a trombone recital recorded by an unsteady, possibly intoxicated cameraman? No, thank you. In the Israeli maestro's hands, though, such raw material becomes ... well... awesome...
Wednesday night’s “River Run” came to an abrupt halt when the Cambridge Fire Department arrived on the scene in response to a call about a possible fire at the Weld Boathouse...
Members of the Harvard University Police Department as well as officers of the Cambridge and Massachusetts State Police forces, accompanied the fire-fighters, spreading out along a stretch of the Charles River between Eliot and Mather Houses to ward away undergraduates from the river’s bank...
Zedlais also said the riverbank had grown dangerously dry from the lack of rain, which she said prompted a particularly urgent response when the local emergency dispatcher relayed a call that “the rear of the boathouse was on fire...
When the Harvard police did arrive, at roughly the same time as the Cambridge Fire Department, the two departments quickly shut down the river’s perimeter, stationing officers on either end of Weeks footbridge...