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...drink—as well as the more charitable-minded work—Oktoberfest also featured a musical selection, including simultaneous performances from six stages across the Square.The Mass. Ave. main stage offered performances by rock bands, a hip-hop funk band and an alternative, psychedelic marching band from Portland. Club Passim showcased the club’s newest discoveries of singer-songwriters, while the Holyoke Center stage offered passers-by live jazz. Tthe HONK! Festival Parade, which ran from Davis Square to Harvard, featured 24 street bands hailing from across the country as well as Canada and Italy.Student musical...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Hee kwon Seo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Oktober in the Square | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...process is much more emotional. In some cases, the judges respond to the reality of the story; in other cases, they respond to really great writing." The winner of the July grand prize, as well as of category prizes in both July and October, was a letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants all over town. Everywhere I looked, girls were celebrating physiques of the sort that once ignited the muumuu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Writing Prize for the People, by the People | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Legality aside, do you think that it's fair for athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs? Julien Deveraux PORTLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Lance Armstrong | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...unless, of course, you count the recent developments of the renowned Zegna family). Well, now there's not only Ford but also a raft of new American menswear designers breaking through?from Thom Browne in New York City to Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders in Los Angeles. Even Portland, Maine, has its own indigenous menswear look, thanks to Alex Carleton and his brand, Rogues Gallery. What's exciting about these guys is their approach to business. Unlike their iconic predecessors, they take inspiration from their own sartorial needs rather than some idealized fantasy of what they should be wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Experts | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

Breaking into mainstream music can be difficult, especially for a folk-band when genres like pop and rap generally stand at the forefront. Last year, Blitzen Trapper, the energetic yet pensive Portland-based sextet, garnered recognition for their single “Wild Mountain Nation” from their third album of the same name. After signing last summer with Sub Pop Records, Trapper seems right at home with their record label, as their fourth album “Furr” showcases their talent well.Influenced heavily by nature and their own spirituality, Trapper creates interesting tunes through light guitar...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blitzen Trapper | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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