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...band: a few nights opening for U2. By appearances, it was an odd fit. Arcade Fire's seven members took the stage looking as if they just had just ridden out a hurricane in a trailer park. Instruments, hair and clothing were strewn everywhere. The set list, culled from their debut, Funeral, was full of songs about death played on accordion and mandolin. Later U2's the Edge would create endless spaces between guitar chords, while Bono drove metaphorical trucks through them, but somehow Arcade Fire's patchwork symphonies roared almost as loudly. To hear the bands together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It's Getting Warmer | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...says, he realized that his audience--mostly non-Arab--wanted to hear jokes about what they were hearing in the news. He founded the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and, partnering with a group of Los Angeles comics, did the Axis tour and special, along with The Watch List, an online Comedy Central sketch series the group hopes to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: Stand-Up Diplomacy | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Harry Potter” made an appearance. I’m no historian, but a movie based on the Battle of Thermopylae probably shouldn’t have any monsters. Despite all of these grievances, and the others that I don’t have the room to list, the film features some breathtaking visual moments and slick new camera tricks. By speeding up and slowing down certain parts, the director toys with traditional warfare cinematography. The choreography runs the gamut from standard epic-movie fare, to edge-of-your-seat brilliance, to an unintelligible blood orgy. Shot entirely...

Author: By John D. Selig, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 300 | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...right around the corner, we wanted to make sure the laptops didn’t drown,” Aktipis said. As news of the burst pipe spread, e-mails bemoaning the “shitwater” inundating I entryway started flooding Cabot’s open list. Anxious students were quickly calmed by e-mails from Fure and Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris, who informed students that the water was, in fact, from a broken sprinkler pipe. Harris, who is also the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, said last night that Harvard would reimburse students...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot House Entryway Flooded | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...think the easiest way to explain it is that spectroscopy is the...detailed examination of the frequencies of radiation.” Easy? Come again? Perhaps it was simply the word “Spectroscopy” that scared so many students away when scrolling through the list of spring seminars, which includes everything from the visually appealing “How to Look at Paintings,” to the physically stimulating “Language, Sex, and Culture.” In the 4 years that he has been teaching the course, Professor Klemperer says student enrollment...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spectroposomething | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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