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Civil Rights legends to unsung heroes
Tucked away on the third floor of the Goldfarb Library, Pamela Chatterson-Purdy’s exhibit, “Icons of the Civil Rights Movement,” lies in wait for students casually passing by. Seventeen gold-painted religious icons hang across the length of the corridor facing the stairs, each bearing the face and the story of one or more heroes of the […]
Dancing in the New York City streets
Let me start off by saying how thrilled I am that I can now add the words “professional dancer” to my resume. At the end of a not-so-thrilling summer, I was given the opportunity to audition for a dancing commercial that would be filmed in Manhattan over a period of three days. Given the fact […]
Liz Phair digs Boston
Men are evil. That is the message I expected to take away from my first Liz Phair concert experience after plunking down thirty bucks to see her perform at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club last Saturday night. After all, isn’t that simple notion the essence of feminism, the only true antidote to the oppressive patriarchy, the […]
Dumb preview, smart movie
Every once in a while, a person is lucky enough to see a preview for a movie which so lowers their expectations, that when they actually see the film, they love it. For me, that movie was Tropic Thunder. Ben Stiller, the co-writer, producer, director, and star of the film, advertised the hell out of […]
For Nina, Maybe
Well, someone has to smoke the world’s cigarettes, to leave little ash droppings to lead us out of the wilderness – a little nothing, a little boredom, so we can lean on buildings looking good while the prophets pray for the days of fire and fat. But in the meantime let’s let the gaps stay […]
Or the Singer to His Song
Sleep, a Painting It is time to turn against the night and draw the world within my palms, to set the crutch which holds the sky above the moon and silver beach. My gaze is fixed upon the shore where dense waves crash and sound no more. There are songs unheard in the ocean’s roar, […]
The Museum’s Survivor
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