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...energetic performance that demonstrated Gift of Gab’s many, many vocal ranges, from Twista-esque fast-paced funk to Chuck D’s harder, self-satisfied flow to Rahzel’s use of his own voice as a technological instrument. “The Craft” is the title of Blackalicious’ new album and it’s an apt title for output by the group. During their slightly-longer-than-an-hour set, which focused mostly on their newest material and their recent “Broken Arrow,” they...
...wishing I could quit you! 4) ...eating an entire wheel of cheese. 5) ...working on Domna’s presidential campaign. 6) ...climbing the dragon phallus. 7) ...trapped between the moving bookshelves in Widener. 8) ...having sex in the moving bookshelves in Widener. 9) ...playing that Chinese instrument more proficiently than the guy outside the Coop. 10) ...helping Larry clean out his office. 11) ...under your bed. 12) ...discouraged by the hurtful comments of my defensive line coach. 13) ...naked in Lamont. 14) ...taking pictures of tourists taking pictures of me. 15) ...running an off-season Primal Scream...
...Flint felt the school wasn't honoring Islamic values, among other failings. Later, her view of school soured as she read the works of the American John Taylor Gatto, a former prizewinning teacher who lectures on what he calls the "tyranny of compulsory schooling." Gatto portrays schooling as an instrument of social engineering where children are taught to know their place. Flint at first doubted her ability to teach Aleah, now 15, and Tahirrah, 13. Today, she and the girls say the arrangement has worked fine. "I've become really anti-school," Flint says. "I just don't believe...
...could blame her for succumbing to the strummings of the stringed septet? Just to say the word ukulele forces a smile. The name is almost certainly Hawaiian?it allegedly comes from the islanders' word for "jumping flea," bestowed after a 19th century Portuguese sailor impressed locals with his instrument's capabilities. Marilyn Monroe ran wild with one in Some Like It Hot, British Prime Minister Tony Blair took one on his last summer vacation, and in 1946, British entertainer George Formby incensed South African apartheid architect Daniel Malan by refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although...
...been going Baroque. However, except for a devoted contingent of fans, few Harvard students are aware that Boston features the preeminent early music scene in America, if not the world.The early music genre encompasses European music from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, as performed on historically accurate, or period, instruments. Boston is currently home to numerous internationally-renowned vocal and orchestral early music groups, as well as dozens of smaller, but equally talented, ensembles. “Boston is the birthplace of period instruments and performance,” explains Carole Friedman, the executive director of the prominent orchestra Boston...