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That five-year hiatus has officially ended with Static and Silence...
...school Sundays fans will react to Static and Silence in one of two ways: they'll either love it because it's such classic and familiar material or they'll love it because it puts an original spin on the same tried-and-true Sundays product. On the one hand, the old mellow ambiance is there, along with the familiar existentialist love themes: "a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do/it's dumb--I know what I want to say/but I can't even take one breath." On the other hand, a plethora of extra instrumentation helps...
...expectations. Take Channel Umptee-3, which is intended to appeal to children as young as two. The premise is that an ostrich, a snail and a fantasy creature called Holey Moley are operating an underground television station. Old black-and-white film footage is spliced into the show, and static often appears as if a channel were being changed. "This is a show I wish I had as a kid," says Jim George, who created Channel Umptee-3. "I thought, What if there was a show put on by a bunch of wildly enthusiastic people who start their...
This may not sound like everyone's cup of tea, but it's to the credit of director Gili Bar-Hillel and Yerma's excellent cast that they have pulled it off remarkably well: Despite its essentially static structure, this drama of emotions remains spellbinding for its full two hours. The play's success must be credited in large part in to the startlingly beautiful and lucid performance of Lara Jirmanus '01 as Yerma. Jirmanus's Yerma retains our attention for the duration of the play; striking precisely the right balance between Yerma's haunting desires and the earthy reality...
With such stoicism, one may easily mistake Stereolab for an opening band. Their static stage manners coupled with the relatively sober crowd give no hint to their brilliance. Upon closer inspection, the crowd was awaiting the evening's top bill not with indifference, but bona fide reverence--creening to absorb the group's trademark sound of hypnotic rhythmic tracks overlaid with melodic, mesmerizing vocals...