Word: offbeaters
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...have kids and a heavy work schedule. I've allotted myself a certain time off and whatever that fits in that schedule, I will see. It's almost at a stage where I think anything American or with a name actor is not worth seeing. I go for the offbeat film. It's one of the few places where something like a small Serbian film will get a full house, where people can see films they won't get to see anywhere else...
...star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown, he tumbled into a severe depression. When he surfaced Roach pushed himself into new endeavors: agitating for racial equality, writing music for playwright Sam Shepard, leading an acclaimed percussionists...
...making careful choices in siting and design. Rooms at the Hoxton are all 20 sq m in size, roughly 20% smaller than those you'll find in conventional hotels of similar quality. All rooms have identical layouts and furnishings, which reduces costs. The hotel is also located in the offbeat but increasingly trendy Hoxton neighborhood near London's financial district, where property prices are lower than in most central locales...
Contrary to what their blood-red campaign posters demand, Undergraduate Council presidential candidates Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 do not actually want to “kill the UC.” Rather, they want to wound it severely.The offbeat presidential candidate and his armchair-theorist running mate say that if elected, they would eliminate the UC’s role as middleman between students and the administration and transfer decision-making power to undergraduates.Neither Hwang nor Wong have had any UC experience, but they embrace their outsider status...
...have joined unlikely forces to create the MTV Guide series aimed at the young at heart and budget-challenged. The books are packed with tips on where to find the cheapest digs, where to eat well for less than $10, which bars offer complimentary food and where to find offbeat adventure sports like kayaking in Italy or surfing off Ireland's unsunny coast of Clare...