Word: jamming
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Queen’s queasy moments come when Morel decides to pick up a microphone and jam with his band. The resulting pop tunes make a strong case for sticking to paths that are time-tested and crowd-approved, and leaving the funny experiments to the big boys. Morel’s pristine studio polish, which helps redeem the otherwise lifeless house music, only saps his guitar songs of immediacy and relevance. Besides not being able to sing, his lyrics can be cringe-worthy: “So carry these words inside of you / Love is really...
...Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge/Third Rail. The Lounge features a blues jam upstairs and a poetry slam downstairs. 738 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. T: Central Square. Wednesday...
Poetry slams and jams at the Lizard Lounge. Sunday night features a poetry jam hosted by the Jeff Robinson Trio. 1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, between Harvard Square and Porter Square. (617) 547-0759. 21-plus. Open nightly 9pm-2am. Cover varies...
...much of a good thing. Mark Lepper, a psychology professor at Stanford, and Sheena Iyengar, an associate professor of management at Columbia, illustrated this point with a simple study. In a grocery store, they set up tasting booths that offered either six or 24 types of jam. Shoppers found the wider selection more enticing: 60% who passed it stopped and tasted, while only 40% stopped at the booth with fewer flavors. Yet the wider selection was confounding; just 3% who sampled there bought anything, while 30% made a purchase at the other booth...
...tendency to feel overwhelmed and do nothing probably saves us money on jam. But it is becoming increasingly dangerous as society hands us more and more responsibility for vital and complex decisions about our savings for college and retirement, our family's health care and the providers of utilities ranging from electricity to cellular-phone service. Responsibility is always the price of freedom. But we are now responsible for so many decisions requiring so much homework that many of us feel helpless and paralyzed. The risks of inaction or unwise action are rising, even as many of the professionals...