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...recent travails may partially explain his attraction to “The Office”: the show is part of a new breed of television comedy, an innovative format informed by the same reality genre that is ostensibly usurping its place. It shies away from the usual tropes afflicting sitcoms: ethnic mismatches, didactic moralizing, happy endings. The format falls in the same category as Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Fox’s “Arrested Development,” shows shot in a single-camera, verité style that...
...Montreal has always looked to the past, but the bygone era that mastermind Kevin Barnes daydreams of here is considerably more recent than usual. These two minutes hearkens more than anything—more, even, than the “Age of Aquarius”—to the period in the late ’90s when the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant 6 collective produced some of the more trippy retro-psych this side of “Hair.” When, for a moment, it seemed as if the Beatles and the Beach Boys had never...
...fact, it is “Eternal”’s evocative music which has caused Marsalis to choose Sanders Theater as the venue of his performance, instead of his usual stage at the Berklee College of Music. “The artist has usually played at Berklee, but because of the ballads he specifically requested Sanders. It’s a more intimate hall,” said Hollander...
...statement from Summers and Kagan yesterday did not divulge whether Tribe would face any disciplinary action in connection with the incident. “In line with usual University practice, we intend no further comment on the matter,” Summers and Kagan said. But Tribe’s assistant said yesterday that “there was no sanction or reprimand beyond the [University] statement...
...This is a strike in the non-traditional sense,” Butler said. “All the [teaching assistants] will still receive their usual stipends, even if they are not working...