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...seven-year tradition that was interrupted in 1999 by the health problems of frontman John Popper. The band is currently working on its first album since the death of bassist Bobby Sheehan. Phish will tour the country, and the Allman Brothers Band and Steve Miller are also on tap at venues nationwide...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk and Daniel A. Zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Access All Areas: The Summer Concert Preview | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...Cyrus into the courtyard. Let me regain my bearings. Hmmm, ghee? I don't know what you're talking about. Let me check Webster's. ghee: n. 1. A buttery milk concoction popular in Indian households 2. The sound one makes when they accidentally turn on the shower tap to hot, scalding water, i.e. "Gheeeeeeeee!" I'm assuming you're talking about the second one, Moop. And no, I'm too smart to do something like that...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...finals at Cambridge University. That initial effort became White Teeth (Random House; 448 pages; $24.95), a book that has finally made it to the U.S. side of the ocean and that Smith describes in the British arts magazine Butterfly as "the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired, tap-dancing 10-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Roots and Family Trees | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...same can be said of Smith. She planned to be a tap dancer ("I got too fat") or a jazz singer ("I wasn't as good as Aretha"), despite a lifelong interest in writing. She grew up in an irreligious, working-class household in London. Her father, a onetime photographer, and her mother, a model turned child psychoanalyst, divorced when she was 12. Smith took to writing short stories and poetry during an adolescence she describes as "pathologically angst ridden." She hasn't outgrown the angst: her manner is painfully serious, even defensive, despite the success of White Teeth, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Roots and Family Trees | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

Kate A. Agresta '02 was there to watch her roommate Becca P. Mercer '02 auction off a "singing, tap dancing telegram" from their third roommate Heather G. Childs...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Auction Draws Crowds With 'Lambing' | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

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