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The good, the bad, and the melodramatic: Musings on this week’s slam session

There’s poetry, and then there’s slam poetry. It’s easy to cast off the latter as a contemporary subset of a traditional form of expression. But some slam—the kind overwrought with lofty metaphors and melodramatic pretense—is so far from Shakespeare and so borderline hip-hop that it becomes an entirely separate entity. Though slam is deeply rooted […]

Rockin’ out with your dad at the House of Blues: The Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays attract a grateful, gray-haired crowd

It’s always risky business going to see a band that hasn’t released a hit single since before you were born. Yet when I heard that the Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays were playing at the House of Blues, I wasn’t bothered in the least by their vintage status. After all, both groups are much less […]

The cougars have come to town: New sitcom tries hard but falls flat

Given the number of May-December romances in Hollywood lately (Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Kim Cattrall and whoever), it was only a matter of time until art imitated life in the form of ABC’s new show on Wednesday nights, “Cougar Town.” This sitcom, from “Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence and “Scrubs” collaborator Kevin Biegel, focuses on […]

Where the sing-a-longs are

Adapting a 10-line Maurice Sendak children’s classic into a Spike Jonze visual epic that’s endlessly delayed poses a number of problems, not the least of which involves finding an appropriate soundtrack for the beloved book. Currently “Where the Wild Things Are” is being aggressively marketed with a gorgeous trailer backed by the Arcade Fire’s “Wake […]

“Mi Historia: Unificación de Culturas” Hispanic Heritage Month 2009

This year, ¡AHORA! celebrated its 21st anniversary of Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM), a month dedicated to the great contributions Latinos have made to our nation. This year’s HHM theme, “Mi Historia: Unificacion de Culturas” (My Story: Unification of Cultures), represents the many facets of our culture and commemorates unity of diversity. As such, we found […]

The 3rd Wavelength

Klibanoff covers “The Race Beat,” then and now

Pulitzer-Prize winning author and journalist Hank Klibanoff spoke to a packed audience in the Pollack auditorium on Thursday on the role of journalism in the Civil Rights movement in a lecture entitled “The Race Beat: Then and Now.” Klibanoff also covered his current involvement in uncovering evidence about unsolved crimes dating back to the early […]

UPMIFA could bring financial flexibility, but not reduce needs for budget cut

Brandeis administrators are evaluating how the recent passing of a Massachusetts law governing endowment spending could affect the university’s financial policy. But even if the Board of Trustees adapts the university’s financial policy to the Universal Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA), the university will still need to implement budget cuts to close the […]