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...Past,” in which he offered covers of seminal but relatively recondite folk artists, from Loudon Wainwright and Townes van Zandt to Derroll Adams and Bobby Charles—artists that have inspired the direction his own music has taken. Listening to “Tight Knit,” however, one wonders if the conceit behind “Thing of the Past” wasn’t entirely honest. While “Tight Knit” includes several songs—“Forest Edge” and “Down from...
...Orson Welles Theatre in Cambridge (which burned down in the mid-80s) to West Newton to its present Davis Square home. And each year’s event has a different theme (this year’s was “Alien Attack”). But the close-knit audience remains more or less the same; there are multiple people who have been to all 34 festivals. For a stranger to the sci-fi community, the overnight festival—which took place this year from last Sunday to Monday—can appear somewhat inscrutable. Little seems to link...
...land. The Army is getting $160 billion to outfit a third of its force with a complex network of electronically linked vehicles, beginning in 2015. This supposedly synchronized web of vehicles is called the Future Combat Systems (FCS) and would include tanks, troop carriers and unmanned aircraft ostensibly knit together in a computerized cavalry. The Army likes to argue that the FCS is a transformational approach to fighting wars, in part because it is giving up a lot of armor in favor of some 95 million lines of computer code designed to detect and avoid enemy fire. In theory...
Laramie, Wyoming was just like any small Western town: a tight-knit community, says its resident limo driver Doc O’Conner (Brian Cass) in “The Laramie Project,” where “everyone knows everybody else’s business.” But the town was shaken to its core when a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, was found severely beaten nearby. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production, which ran at the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend, details the reactions and thoughts of Laramie’s citizens...
...simpler times in the quaint English countryside. The balcony of Sanders Theatre is adorned with strings of evergreen to add to the festive air; children and hankie-wavers frolic upon the stage.Though not always exciting, “Revels” is consistently successful at crafting a homey, close-knit setting that conveys the feeling of the era and season. The cast of characters create a strong sense of community and aim to include the audience with their interactive caroling and dancing. The first of several joint ventures between the viewers and performers is a rendition...