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...small table in Eliot Square’s Cafe Paradiso Sunday afternoon, sixth-year doctoral student Lauren J. Willig is sipping a latte and marking up a thick sheaf of papers with red ink. But she’s not poring over the rushed contentions of a new batch of undergraduate midterms, or a draft of her dissertation on British history of the Tudor-Stuart period, or even a judicial opinion for her second year at Harvard Law School...
...titanic waves of hype cresting over M.I.A.’s long-awaited debut album have created one of the finer ironies in recent memory: So much music-crit ink and bloggy bits have been lavished on Maya Arulpragasam—an artist who studiously, hyperactively, sublimely avoids cliché—that it’s nearly impossible to write about her without indulging in a few already-saids...
...crazy mother. You may know his distinctively nasal voice, lightning flow, and impossibly obscure lyrics from any number of releases on legendary post-hop label Anticon (under aliases Deep Puddle Dynamics, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves with various permutations of labelmates), or from his solo collaborations with Aesop Rock, Prefuse 73, Revolutionary Ink and other heroes of the hip hop intelligentsia. His most recent project, Subtle, which features groundbreaking production from Jeffrey “Jel” Logan (Drucker’s high school pal and frequent collaborator) and live instrumentation courtesy of the remaining four members of the group...
...walls are painted dark blue, the space feels intimate, the atmosphere subdued, and the scrolls are older and more traditional. Buddhist scrolls from as far back at the eighth century are framed by layers of intricate fabrics and papers. The calligraphy itself is written in bold black and gold ink, and the centuries-old paper on which it is written often has its own subtle decoration. There are also personal letters and poetry; some of the texts are written out phonetically, in order for visitors to sound out the original cadences, and some are translated into English...
...handwriting in Western civilizations, calligraphy is a dying art, constantly replaced by typewritten text. The scrolls are testament to the fact that writers can survive centuries through the more personal brushstroke; here, all the details are evident, down to the way a line progresses from dark to light as ink runs off the brush...