Word: yardfest
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...nine-member hip-hop group was followed by pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw, in the College’s third annual Yardfest...
...Harvard trees. The tire swing has become the pagan totem of our spring rite, and we—its fanatics—flock to it out of simple glee or hipster irony. Like a hypnotic pendulum lulling away the vulgarities of everyday stress, the tire swing beckons us to Yardfest in a more complex way than the food monopoly and in a more subtle way than the rap stars. One can imagine Yardfest without the dining services’ cornucopia, without the spectacle of saccharine country and ironic rap and perhaps without even the Yard itself. But Yardfest without...
...We’ve never stopped believing. Yardfest, then, is a stage where we pretend to be normal kids according to what we suppose normal kids must be like. The jocund typography of Yardfet’s posters, the genuine excitement over Wu-Tang Clan, and the prospects of a sunny day all dredge up the components of a yearning for that life which we thought we might be leading but never got around to. And, as in all imaginary play-acting, the parts most sorely missed become the motions most prominently exaggerated. Consequently, we deify idleness by caricaturing...
...some Harvard freshman, Wu-Tang still manages to make its presence felt. This evening, their “Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game” (one of several ‘backronyms’ spelling out Wu-Tang that the group has devised for its name) will grace Yardfest in Tercentenary Theater (which has no backronyms...
...addition to being serenaded by the Wu Tang Clan and Gavin DeGraw at Yardfest tomorrow, Harvard students will get the chance to see former Dispatch band member Brad Corrigan perform at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub next Thursday. Brad Corrigan will be playing with his band Braddigan, which he formed in 2003 after Dispatch disbanded. Braddigan members, who are performing for Harvard Concert Committee’s (HCC) “Rock for a Reason,” are set to take the stage at 9pm on Thursday, April 24. The night’s repertoire will...