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Before the Loeb was constructed, student productions were a highly self-sufficient affair...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Drama Takes to a New Stage | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Alan Palmer said. “It was a little disappointing that we were not able to make the team race national championship regatta, but if we had to choose between the fleet- and team-racing contests, we would always choose the fleet-racing contest. It is a bigger affair and one which we focus on throughout the season...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Sailing Struggles with Consistency | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...FOREIGN AFFAIR...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

Martel writes with a smooth, almost stoned detachment, cool to the touch, which gives a distant, unreal feeling to a story that's already dangerously weird and abstract. The taxidermist's play turns out to be a Beckettian affair about a monkey and a donkey, Beatrice and Virgil, who live on a giant shirt (yes, a shirt). Beatrice and Virgil are lost, shell-shocked survivors of a massacre of animals by humans, an "abomination" they can refer to only as "the Horrors." Thus the Holocaust, denied entrance at the front door, sneaks in through the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock the Monkey | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...also differ vastly in style. Wale relies on flow and samples while Cudi lays down his own original, if less-innovative, beats. However, on Sunday all three artists proved incapable of consistently commanding attention, leaving this year’s Yardfest to be a rather stale and second-rate affair...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston and Alex C. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Day or Nite, Yardfest Does Not Entertain | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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