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...said, explaining she is able to avoid the protests because their time and location are known beforehand. Shanahan said she also felt relatively safe, but added “I will say walking by the Sorbonne [Monday] was a slightly unnerving experience.” “The makeshift barriers have been replaced by a very permanent-looking metal barrier which blocks you from entering the cafes leading up to the main building,” Shanahan said. “Everytime I go, it seems like there are more police. [There are] hundreds and hundreds...
...people standing vigil around the tents didn't look like they were enjoying a day out with the family. Having spent a freezing night in the square, exhausted by sporadic scuffles with the police, or fighting back bulldozers threatening to erase their makeshift abodes, they could have used some hot food - if only the police who cordoned off the square would not harass those trying to bring...
...freestyle rap battle last Friday with something every rapper wants to take home to his crib: victory. With the vocal support of some friends and his proctor, Liu overcame three challengers and an at-times hostile crowd in head-to-head dis dishes on a large makeshift stage in Massive Records on Mass. Ave. But despite his lyric-spitting prowess, the NYC native isn’t all about battling. “I like much more just writing and performing my own songs,” he says. “I’m going to start recording...
...pianos. They made microphones from old car parts, new electric guitars from cast-offs, and junk percussion from whatever they could find to keep the beat—hubcaps, tin cans, glass bottles. Last year, Konono No.1—a tradi-modern Congolese group—brought the makeshift sounds to a world audience when they released their “Congotronics” album. It quickly became required listening for every DJ and music collector on the block. The resulting songs were built on the foundation of African polyrhythms, but have new sounds from the city streets: jagged...
...documents,” Amy G.S. Chen, a third-year law student with PHRF, wrote in an e-mail. “In the evenings we donned rubber chemical boots and schlepped across ditches, past burning trash cans, through ankle-deep mud to interview workers camping out in a makeshift tent city in City Park...