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Club Passim? It's that sunken whitewashed place across from the Coop, below the map store. Tom Waits got his start there. In its heyday Club Passim (then Club 47) was a familiar nightspot for Harvard students: "It was the House of Blues without the booze," says co-founder Betsy Siggins Schmidt. Over the years though, student nightlife has fragmented as venues multiplied, and the Club's Americana format has become less immediate than it was when folk musicians were creating a vocal canon of protest in the days of Vietnam and the civil rights movement...
...nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman, Tow Waits, Suzanne Vega, Nanci Griffith and Tom Rush all started out across the street from the Coop. So much for geography as destiny...
Unlike the males in the animal kingdom who primp and preen for the females attention, ugly men in Hollywood think that they can attract the most beautiful women by just rolling out of bed and looking pathetic. Tom Hanks echoes this sentiment in the equally fake and unfunny You've Got Mail. While women starve themselves to achieve the chic skeletal look, men can just hide their love handles in boxy clothes. But double chins and receding hair lines are as apparent as this star-studded movie with a plot that flops...
...program] rings some bells and blows some whistles about invention," she said. "We want an equal number of kids to want to be Tom Edisons as Tom Cruises...
Marcus Naslund, a former Penguins first-round draft choice, scored his 28th and 29th goals of the season in the second period after Pittsburgh's Peter Skudra replaced an injured Tom Barrasso in goal. Vancouver scored on two of its four shots in the period...