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...annual showcase of talent from Harvard’s diverse student groups, featured 28 different performances this Saturday. Every year, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which sponsors the event, chooses an Artist of the Year to honor, as well. The 2008 recipient—celebrated jazz musician Herbie Hancock—took to the stage with a large smile on his face at the show’s start and hosted the night with ease. In the spirit of welcoming the jazz giant to Harvard, the show opened with Marcus Miller...
...just remember such a sense of relief, and of being a human being, when everything was shut off.' RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, musician, recalling the 2003 New York City power outage and explaining why he's encouraging the city's residents to boycott electricity on June 21 for what he calls a "blackout Sabbath...
...fans from his cable reality show American Hot Rod, fixed cars at Disneyland. Then wealthy clients began to notice his hobby. Coddington designed everything from scratch on his stylish, award-winning reinterpretations of early Chevys, Fords and Caddies. Among his masterpieces: the CheZoom and the sleek CadZZilla, built for musician Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. The cause of Coddington's death was not disclosed...
Actually it's mostly just Kilpatrick. The son of a Christian musician who played hundreds of churches, he developed a keen sense of the distinction between the Christian message (not inherently funny) and what he calls its social, institutional and political "scaffolding" (a big target). He feels others share that view. "There's a shift," he remarks. "A new generation that without being less Christian is more culturally agnostic" and distanced from the architecture of insularity. "There's a deconstruction going on," he says, "and satire is one of the ways of doing that." Here are a couple of examples...
Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock learned a salsa dance step, played the dundun drum from Mali, and participated in an intertribal Indian social dance as Artist of the Year at the 23rd annual “Cultural Rhythms” show in Sanders Theater on Saturday. The day-long event, presented by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is a yearly celebration of diversity at Harvard that includes two shows and a food festival. The event stars a range of Harvard’s multicultural performance groups, showcasing songs, dances, and musical instruments from around the world...