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...genre: “The drummer is the heartbeat. If the heart stops beating, you’re dead.”To enhance the festivities honoring Haynes, the OFA invited special guest and Grammy-winning trumpet virtuoso Roy Hargrove. Hargrove, who recorded with Haynes on the 2001 Charlie Parker tribute “Birds of a Feather,” views Haynes as a key influence on modern jazz. In a presentation sponsored by The Harvard College American Music Association and the Harvard Jazz Bands, Hargrove said that many of the current young players are “forgetting...
What's the story behind "Love Story"? Madison Parker PORTLAND...
...weaknesses in the Big Green’s pitching staff.Freshman Hillary Barker and sophomore Devin Lindsay have seen the bulk of the time in the circle for Dartmouth, but neither has an ERA under four. The Big Green has been powered by its bats, particularly those of junior Alyssa Parker and freshmen Molly Khalil. Parker leads the team with a .327 average, while Khalil has belted nine doubles and four home runs. Khalil was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after she hit .438 in Dartmouth’s five games last week. As Harvard has been heating...
...This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Kirby Dick's polemical documentary about the MPAA board, which charged that the ratings system had a bias toward films from the big studios and against indie movies. I wrote: "Dick takes a deposition from Matt Stone, who created South Park with Trey Parker. Stone says that when their indie comedy Orgazmo was slapped with an NC-17, they were given no hints in cutting the film to get a less proscriptive rating. Yet two years later, when Paramount was behind their movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the board, according to Stone, offered...
...receive any such honor.The plot centers on a series of racist threats received by a black student at the predominantly white Belmont College in Vermont. The ensuing uproar at the small liberal arts school reveals hidden prejudices, brings tension bubbling to the surface, and leads to violence. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Sarah Daniels, the newly hired Dean of Students who strives for sensitivity yet needs to keep her job. Dean Daniels struggles to find a balance between protecting the targeted student and appeasing the administration, all while falling for Aaron Carmichael (Mykelti Williamson), a black reporter covering the story...