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WHRB’s has found its golden ticket to financial security in the form of classical broadcasting. And it’s no big surprise that a decent number of Harvard undergraduates with a knowledge and enthusiasm for classical music make a staff of top-notch classical...

Author: By Anna F. Bonnell-freidin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radio Free Harvard | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

It’s hard to remember a time when the Rolling Stones weren’t four fossils in leather pants with titles in the peerage and three-digit ticket prices. In “Stoned,” Stephen Wooley’s directorial debut, he recounts the hedonistic early days of the Stones and the rapid rise and precipitous fall of founding member and guitarist Brian Jones, played by Leo Gregory (“Green Street Hooligans?...

Author: By Tom C. Denison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stoned | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...about five dollars a ticket, minor league games are infinitely more affordable for families than Major League games, where tickets, parking, and snacks for a family of five can easily run you over...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surviving Extended Spring | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...utter absurdity of ticket prices compared to the salary of the average Chinese worker led Jagger to quip that he was “pleased the Ministry of Culture is doing so much to protect the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Can't Always Sing What You Want | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...than Banton, who is one of the nation's most popular dance-hall singers. Born Mark Myrie, he grew up the youngest of 15 children in Kingston's Salt Lane - the sort of slum dominated by ultraconservative Christian churches and intensely anti-gay Rastafarians. Banton parlayed homophobia into a ticket out of Salt Lane. One of his first hits, 1992's Boom Bye-Bye, boasts of shooting gays with Uzis and burning their skin with acid "like an old tire wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

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