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...based out of New York. Each member has a different persona: Noah Lennox is “Panda Bear” and has his own side project on Animal Collective’s label, David Portner plays the role of “Avey Tare,” Brian Weitz, who wears a miner’s light over the effects box and minidisc players he operates, is “The Geologist,” and Conrad Deaken is (somewhat less creatively) “The Deaken,” an elusive figure. On sale exclusively at the show...
POETRY@MIT. As part of the poetry@MIT series, the MIT Coop holds a reading in celebration of their own Joshua Weitz’ first book of poetry, Between the Stones. Weitz is currently a doctoral candidate in physics at MIT. Two other acclaimed local poets, Erica Funkhouser and William Corbett, will join Joshua Weitz in reading. Wednesday, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. Free. MIT Coop Book Department, First Floor. Kendall Square...
DIED. JOHN WEITZ, 79, proudly populist fashion designer; of cancer; in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Among the first to engage in licensing agreements for the production of neckties, men's cologne and socks, Weitz was also, to the puzzlement of fashionistas, a historian and an author, whose works include a biography of Hitler diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was the father of filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz, who directed About a Boy and American...
...January 2000 the market appeared ready to turn higher, only to suck in investors and saddle them with more losses. And a bottom does not signal an uninterrupted ride to higher ground. "After 20 years of a bull market, the bottoming process could take a long time," cautions Wallace Weitz, manager of Weitz Value fund. "The Dow could trade in this range [7700 to 10,000] for years...
That our laughter has a real, painful subtext is all the more surprising in that Nick Hornby's novel was adapted (with Peter Hedges) and directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, they of the raucous American Pie. Who knew these guys had sense and sensibility? But they do--and About a Boy is far and away the smartest, funniest and most winsome big-studio release of this so-far dismal year...