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...weeks ago, the Harvard Jazz Collective, after almost four years of existence, played its last gig at the Adams House Formal. We’re close friends now, and the experience meant a lot to us, if not to the modest, probably trashed crowd in the dining hall that inexplicably preferred our take on “swing” (mostly later Miles Davis) to the DJ upstairs. For most of us, it was probably our last chance to play the working musician; we were closing our instrument cases on a decade’s worth of practice. We packed...
...pieces and subcultures and niches that are serving small, really dedicated communities of music lovers. Listeners may not necessarily pay for that one song or the one album, but if they're intrigued enough, they're going to start following an artist or band. They show up at the gig or buy the merchandise or buy the next CD or the vinyl version of the MP3 they just downloaded. If you're a good band and making quality music, your fans are going to want every piece of what you put out. Once an audience is there, there...
...Freshman Seminar 23v. The Psychology of Powerpoint — Eat your hearts out, future consultants. This alone should land you a gig at McKinsey: "As humans, our minds have certain strengths and weaknesses, and clear and compelling presentations play to the cognitive strengths of the audience members and avoid falling prey to their weaknesses." Those prospective clients will be putty in your Powerpointing hands...
Straus, who provided musical enjoyment for the attendees of the Lowell, Leverett, and Cabot/Pfoho formals was also originally planning to play the Mather formal last night, but the gig seems to have fallen through at the last minute. The reason, after the jump...
Traditionally, were you to ask somebody what "the best job in the world" is, you might expect to hear 'astronaut', 'movie star' or 'bed tester' thrown back at you. But for 34-year-old Englishman Ben Southall - and 35,000 other hopefuls - it was the six-month gig being offered by Tourism Queensland to be the caretaker of an Australian tropical island. And for the not exactly demanding 12 hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom...