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...black gown with an angel's wing on her shoulder, got booed off the stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. That may help explain why, for the rest of her career, this rock innovator shied away from the limelight, writing songs that others turned into hits (Stoned Soul Picnic for the 5th Dimension; And When I Die for Blood, Sweat and Tears; Stoney End for Barbra Streisand). The crowd at that landmark Monterey festival was more into high-energy rockers like Janis Joplin, for whom performing was as intoxicating as the heroin that eventually killed...
...those blissfully unaware, E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) is where the entire videogame and computer game industry gathers once every year to crow over its recent successes and loudly proclaim its coming attractions. But if this gives you the image of a bunch of spotty geeks in glasses sitting behind picnic tables grinning disturbingly at you over piles of CD cases, you couldn't be more off base...
...police officers working overtime to keep tent city safe finally returned home last week, but an extra crime fighting force—more than 200 strong—descended on the Yard on Friday to investigate a reported kidnapping and enjoy a picnic lunch on the Science Center lawn...
...many people outside the Harvard campus," says Schorr, “it’s an opportunity to see Harvard as more than an academic or elitist behemoth. They see that goofy parade coming down Mass Avenue and follow it to the picnic. Then they spend the rest of the afternoon taking in all kinds of music, dance, drama and film in some remarkably diverse settings.” Arts First thus has the ability to not only involve campus students and faculty but also to include the Cambridge and Boston community...
...protesters have brought spouses and families and the atmosphere in the Yard has been not unlike a family picnic, complete with food brought by sympathetic restaurant workers from the area...