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...those of you who miss hot breakfast in your House, today’s your chance to claim a free plate of steaming hot pancakes. To celebrate National Pancake Day—our new favorite holiday??IHOP is offering a free stack of three buttermilk pancakes at all its locations across the country, including the one in Harvard Square...
Carter and Elling produced the most interesting sound of the night as they practically interchanged positions, Carter channeling Billie Holiday??s mournfulness with her violin, Elling mimicking the sound of a trumpet. This was obvious on “When I Grow Too Old To Dream,” a 1935 tune which Elling quickly belted out, as if to get the words over with, then carefully leaned into notes, producing a searing, rich sound like an alto saxophone. Carter, on the other hand, rollicked over her melody with a slight glissando. At the same time...
Sadly, the album contains a few regrettable missteps. “Holiday?? features an appalling non sequitur of a bridge, out of nowhere introducing the story of a girl protesting against the Iraq War by becoming a vegetarian into a song that seemed to be about vacations. There is no real point to the political sidestep, and it sits very awkwardly with the song and the album as a whole. On “California English” the group for some reason chooses to auto-tune Koenig’s voice, with terrible results. Closer...
...indigenous inhabitants. In other words, to celebrate Columbus Day is in part to assume that American history, a trajectory that stretches back for centuries before 1492, begins with the presence of white European explorers—an assumption that smacks of an outmoded, Eurocentric worldview. And while the holiday??s national importance has thankfully diminished in recent decades, the trend away from celebrating Columbus Day should continue even further, and the holiday should be officially replaced with another that celebrates the role and presence of Native Americans in our national history...
...known as house music, or simply dance music. Sampling and DJ culture immediately found refuge in early rap and hip-hop, and schism genres like dance-punk and techno emerged. From Prince’s “1999” and Madonna’s “Holiday?? in the 80s, to Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” in the 90s, to Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder,” and ,most recently, Rihanna; the hi-hat and cowbell have...