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...meter, and story repeatedly, and yet remains remarkably cohesive. It may well be the prevalence of nature imagery, and its inversion, that earns this San Franciscan the tag “Appalachian,” which she shares with Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, and other members of the literary singer-songwriter caste. What separates her from those male counterparts, however, is her blend of folksy stories with the truly avant-garde, as much a call from outer space as a call from the wilderness. The tales of “Ys” ring like the stories of a parallel...
Nonetheless, the performers of “Never Gonna Dance” pay fitting homage to him with their smooth and precise style. Singer Arlo D. Hill ’08—a familiar face in Harvard theater who just finished a star performance in the Ex’s “Dinner”—does an admirable rendition of Astaire’s voice with his mellow opening number. Lead dancers Alissa C. Clarke ’07 and Kevin Shee ’10 fill the shoes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
...Sisters of Life Formation House in the Bronx, N.Y., 16 young women are making their way through that journey. They include a former Marine, a professional opera singer, a United Nations aide and a recent Yale grad. They have left behind paychecks, apartments, even boyfriends. Sister Thrse Saglimbeni, 27, a novice who joined the convent in 2005, recalls watching the sisters playing volleyball while she was a student at the nearby State University of New York Maritime College. "I was with my boyfriend and had said how fun the sisters looked," she says. "He said, 'Well...
Sales of Pavement's fuzzed-out masterpiece don't stack up to the rounding errors on Nevermind, but its influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the '90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals were models of cryptic passion. Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart-ass and an awareness that ennui isn't tragic...
...Alison Singer...