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...area, so we usually get a good crowd.” LowKeys member Victoria I. Norelid ’07 adds, “It’s much more informal. It’s a nice way to do a concert. It’s really an impromptu gig.” Joining the casual atmosphere of the LowKeys will be a subsection of the Harvard Kuumba Singers, the Sisters of Kuumba. They will be singing a medley of a capella songs from the African Diaspora. According to member Naabia G. Ofosu-Amaah ‘07, many members...
...sculpture school, the Histrionics' live-wired lead singer, Danius Kesminas, is anything but mild. "A lot of people think what we do is so awful-it's like Weird Al Yankovic," he says. "They sort of cringe, 'This is not art.'" The police who closed down a noisy Histrionics gig in Dresden's Kunsthaus in 2003 obviously didn't think so. But having bitten the hand that feeds him enough times on stage, and on two CDs (Never Mind the Pollocks-Here's the Histrionics and Museum Fatigue), Kesminas, 40, has become the art world's unofficial court jester. Early...
...people, diplomats and academics, Rudd also cultivated a mass audience among those neglected by Canberra's bubble people. Rudd talked his way into a weekly spot on the Sunrise breakfast TV show. For five years (until he and Joe Hockey, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, finally exhausted the gig last week), Rudd was exposed to, and thus became one of the few M.P.s known by, the politically disengaged: busy mothers and retirees turned off by issues-driven AM radio. In the show's whitebread TV family, Rudd established himself as a good sport with a sense of humor...
...next three years--in addition to seeing patients and doing research, plus his gig as a staff writer for the New Yorker--Groopman began to intensively examine how doctors think and how they get sidetracked from the truth. He learned that about 80% of medical mistakes are the result of predictable mental traps, or cognitive errors, that bedevil all human beings. Only 20% are due to technical mishaps--mixed-up test results or hard-to-decipher handwriting--that typically loom larger in patients' minds and on television shows...
...good summer internships already snatched up, it’s time to get creative. Enter Papa John’s pizza and their Harvard-friendly job position: campus pizza rep. Merrily E. McGugan ’09, current holder of this sweet (and savory) title, takes her cheesy gig pretty seriously...