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All Tomorrow’s Parties 2009: A Retrospective

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A well-run music festival with a collection of artists sparklier than the family jewels can invigorate the spirit and can bring a soul back from the edge of Top 40-saturated despair. This year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties in New York was exactly this sort of festival.

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Top 5 Movies of the Summer

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In the summer of 2008, the blockbuster season set the bar high, when excellent movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight drew in...

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Theater Foundation

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The drama club at Conn has always been a very fluid and frenzied entity, changing to suit the diversity of students and theatrical...

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[The Flaming Lips – Embryonic] Band Suggests Rebirth with New Album

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No band in recent memory has been weirder than the Flaming Lips....

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Farewell, Johnny Castle An Ode to Patrick Swayze

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It’s a sad death, but not an unexpected one; we knew he was dying for some time, so, like Farrah Fawcett or Paul Newman, we were...

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The Discerning Aesthetes

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In our continuing mission to bring to the attention of the Connecticut College community the finest in leisurely diversions, we have chosen...

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Record Review: Mew: No More Stories / Are Told Today / I’m Sorry / They Washed Away / No More Stories / The World Is Gray / I’m Tired / Let’s Wash Away

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Mew is not a fun band to try to categorize. Variously described in press and conversation as prog, shoegaze, pop, indie-rock, post...

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My Kingdom For Acoustics

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MOBROC: Be A Real Guitar Hero

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Are you a musician? Have you ever wanted to perform with a band? Want to play your instrument louder than you can in your parents’...

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