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...Corporate advertisers have begun to sense the allure of the alternative - Goodnight Electric launched its second album kitted out in Adidas sportswear from from head to toe - and so have radio stations. Several stations now have regular indie shows, and some, like Prambors FM, even broadcast live sessions. Acong, also known as Sir Dandy, recently performed on the program with his band Teenage Death Star. "We couldn't believe they asked us," confesses the musician who doubles as a painter and stage designer. "This is a format that didn't exist a few years ago because few were willing...
Last Saturday, before Harvard’s first ever Crossword Puzzle Tournament, FM sat down with Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times’ daily crossword, to talk about Rubik’s cubes, the English lexicon, and the word “ucalegon.”1.FM: Are you excited about the tournament today? WS: I am excited about the tournament. If you go back twenty years, crosswords were thought of as an old person thing and most people who created and solved puzzles were basically fifty and older…Now there seem...
...offered during the discussion: is it ethical to kill a pig and harvest its organs to save five human lives? “What about 100 pigs to save 1 person?” says Sunstein, In the end, the panel left the audience to draw its own conclusions. FM offers this: Don’t torture kittens to compel TFs to reveal final exam answers—unless maybe it’s for a huge lecture class...
...RadioX, operating out of Long Island at 94.7FM, 94.9FM, and 104.5FM, is run by former commercial radio DJs so dedicated to good programming that they have chosen to operate outside of the industry. Playing a mix of standard Top 40 hits and lesser known college radio fare, the pirate station is just as popular as any Clear Channel station on Long Island, consistently coming in the top five in Arbitron ratings...
...during the day. Other Other Other Idea: Queen’s Head Pub II, but with free drinks between classes. Otherrrrrr Idea: Turn it into a gigantic single for the senior who has the most sex—or actually has sex at all. Idea: Give it to FM. Idea, Other: Make it into a laser-tag-video-game-ice-hockey play place. (other) Idea: Fill it up with water and turn it into an indoor beach area, with a real, albeit miniature, sun. Both: Spend way more money than necessary...