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...Arlo-hill?)” Arlo D. Hill ’08 first stumbled across this verse from Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” after searching his name on Google, although he says that his name was probably more inspired by folk artist Arlo Guthrie than the Elizabethan poet.“My parents didn’t know of the reference,” says Hill, whose first name also happens to mean “hill.” “They wanted...
Although they are ostensibly “fairy tales,” the stories of the Brothers Grimm are often comically inappropriate for children. The German brothers removed much of the overt sexuality from their retellings of traditional folk tales, but they seemed to have a soft spot for dismembering their younger characters and feeding them to the wolves. This Saturday, Harvard’s Sunken Garden Children’s Theater will bring twisted Grimm humor to audiences of all ages with their performance of “The Three Spinners.” Choosing a Brothers Grimm story...
...Zealand’s formerly fourth-most famous guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo have finally put out their first full-length album, and though it’s all laughs, it’s nothing new from Bret and Jemaine. For fans of their hit TV show “Flight of the Conchords,” their eponymous debut album will likely just be sort of a season-in-song disc, but for those unfamiliar with the HBO series the laughs might be a little out of context. With the new season right...
That's a far cry from the "My country, right or wrong" credo, which confuses blind boosterism with a more authentic, if sometimes questioning, loyalty. At their best, black folk offer critical patriotism, an exacting devotion that carries on a lover's quarrel with America while they shed blood in its defense...
...astronauts to take on long space missions; in 2000, the first edible in vitro muscle protein was created from a goldfish by the NSR/Touro Applied BioScience Research Consortium. Soon after, scientists realized the broader applicability of the technology and began developing it to feed the rest of us earthbound folk...