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...still happens in mail rooms and airports: a suspicious unidentified substance turns up, and activity freezes for hours until a haz-mat team can make a safety assessment. But Ahura Corp.'s FirstDefender--a handheld instrument that recognizes thousands of chemicals--can give cops and firefighters an immediate analysis of just about any substance...
Turkey day might be over, but the list of thanks goes on. I’ve left out a few important ones—late night Felipe’s and that man who plays the weird string instrument outside of The Coop, for example—but mostly, I’m just thankful that I didn’t transfer to Yale...
...most intriguing in the exhibition. One set of hanging scrolls shows six of the 12 Portraits of the Yongzheng Emperor Enjoying Himself Throughout the Twelve Months. In all of them, Yongzheng is portrayed as a Chinese scholar participating in such traditional activities as playing a qin, a classical stringed instrument, and in such celebrations as the Lunar New Year festival, where one of his sons sets off a firecracker. A set of paintings from a small album for private viewing depicts the Emperor in 13 different guises, from a Taoist sage to a Mongolian noble to a Westerner...
Friday, Nov. 18Wu Man and Ensemble. Wu Man, a virtuoso pipe player, performs Chen Yi’s spellbinding opus “Ancient Dances” with his lute-like instrument accompanied by percussionists. Images of ancient Chinese calligraphy will be projected in the background, creating a multimedia event. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $38/28/23/20. (KAF)Scissorfight. Boston-based punk rockers Scissorfight, whose vocalist, Ironlung, once dislocated his shoulder in the middle of a show and spent the remainder of said show attempting to punch it back into place, team...
...wouldn’t be out of place in a Baptist church on Sunday morning. Sadly, Oldham and company’s amazing performances are a little less compelling than they might be because of “Summer”’s threadbare production values. Unintended instrument distortion, a persistent hiss, and echoing vocals all evidence that these recordings were made in hole-in-the-wall clubs with lousy sound systems. Some will say that this “dirty” production is an integral part of the Oldham experience: it accurately represents...