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Between summers swinging wooden bats with the nation’s best—in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) and the Cape Cod League—Hendricks found time during his junior year to lead the Crimson in hitting (.387) and slugging (.623), and finished second on the team in RBIs (29). His .387 average was the second best in the Ivy League...
Tantric are the opposite of the sort of rock n roll anarchy purveyed by The Darkness. Replete with acoustic guitars, wooden basslines and earnest guitar solos, the music sounds as heavily produced as Britney. This is not an entirely bad thing—the music is smooth and even, exerting a vaguely soporific effect. This is the sort of music angry teenagers listen to in order to piss off the parents while catching a nap. The requisite heaviness, showcased on the cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” is offset throughout by acoustic...
...next stop on this subterranean tour is a conference room that doubles as an office. Among the papers and cartons that were scattered on the wooden table sit five industrial packets of Jell-O, a dead giveaway that this wasn’t a typical corporate boardroom, but a place where food is paramount. The use of the table as a makeshift filing cabinet suggests that even those on the business side spend most of their time in the actual kitchen...
...Tongba is made in a cylindrical wooden pot with polished brass banding (the tongba, from which the drink gets its name). This is filled with fermented millet seeds. Your host then adds hot water in a ritual reminiscent of a Japanese tea ceremony. Drinkers suck the alcoholic mixture through a bamboo straw with tiny filters to keep the seeds out, and it's a never-ending affair. You sit around the fire with a thermos flask topping up the pot for hours, and snack on spiced cucumber and mutton pieces known as sekura or sukuli. The locals will assure...
...stage is directly connected to the theater workshop, where sets are constructed, through a set of enormous wooden doors. The shop itself has another set of elephantine doors leading to the street. Conceivably, one could charge right onto the stage from...