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...night, inside Papa Costa's, the party is only just getting started. Aid workers jostle for space on the dancefloor with young Sudanese women who are content to let their scarves slip to their shoulders as a five-piece band hammers out a mixture of North African pop and rock 'n roll jukebox standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Hotel California' in Osama's Old Stamping Ground | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

...nine-member hip-hop group was followed by pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw, in the College’s third annual Yardfest...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Arianna Markel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Wu-Tang, Gavin Rock the Yard | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

...Youth,” whose simultaneously sunny and spacey atmospheres buoy the album to stunning highs.Throughout the album, Gonzales hints at some sort of dramatic theme underlying all the layers of glassy synthesizers, and he anchors most of the tracks in beds of tonal allusion to the transatlantic dance pop of the mid-80s. In fact, most of the album’s tracks reek so heavily of excess that, after a first listen, it’s difficult to discern whether “Youth” proposes homage or parody. Gonzales clearly understands the nostalgia associated with such...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M83 | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...entertaining? Is that funny? Would I want to watch that, if I didn’t understand the rhythm behind it?” Bray enjoys the variety of THUD’s repertoire, which ranges from virtuosic classical pieces to numbers the members arrange themselves, combining their favorite pop songs and STOMP-inspired pieces. She points to one THUD collaboration, written by its female members, that combines parties and percussion as an illustration of the playful attitude with which they often approach their own compositions. “We perform it using things—high heels, lipstick containers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Lauren E. Bray '08 | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

When a new neighbor moves into Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas (pop. 2,800), the customary welcome from the locals is a cake and an invitation to church or a community event. But residents found the newcomers distant and unresponsive to their gestures of friendship. Four years ago, posing as Utah businessmen, David Allred and a small group of companions said they had come to Eldorado to build a hunting and game preserve in what was once the Red Cheek Ranch. That wasn't surprising. While most people in Schleicher County work in the oil field support business, some ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Polygamists Came to Town | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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