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Alexandra Clarke: The tent was a really cool idea, but it wasn’t very practical. Many people ruined their shoes last year. The Northwest Labs is actually a cool modern artistic gallery/warehouse space. Since we don’t have to pay as much as we had to for the tents, we have extra money to do lighting, set design, a cooler runway space, chairs, and to create a very professional-looking show...
...been really tough this year. Last year we got a huge grant from Macy’s, and this year they have been really helpful, but they just couldn’t give us the grant. We really had to re-evaluate the show and decide what to keep. As a result we cut our budget so much that we’ll probably raise double what we did last year... We’re getting the space [in Northwest Labs] for a steal, but it was somewhere we always wanted to do in spite of the budget cuts...
...show like “The Sorcerer,” with a fundamentally weak plot only resolved by a deus ex machina, depends largely on its soloists, whom stage director Davida Fernandez-Barkan ’11 manages effectively. The role of Alexis is well handled by Nelson (in last Saturday’s matinee performance). His strong tenor and zestful portrayal of his foppish, affected character provides many of the performance’s most rewarding moments. In particular, his over-the-top exchanges with his father, played with great aplomb by Yashinsky, are delightful...
Spitzer also addressed broader problems with corporate governance, which he said were “at the heart and soul of what has failed in the last 30 years...
...decision of a group of protestors—which included several Harvard students—to stage a “sleep-out” in support of climate-change legislation last Monday evening in Boston Common might strike observers as odd. Yet while setting up tents in the very tame wilderness of central Boston is peculiar, the cause the demonstrators supported is not. The students, through their transient tent city, intended to call attention to climate change and show support for introducing a bill that would require Massachusetts to be powered with 100-percent renewable energy...