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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hand, he is a master of getting listeners to sing along before they have even finished hearing a song; on the other, he subjects his audience to irritating gimmicks such as Backstreet Boys-esque echoing vocals in “Touches You,” a barbershop quartet in “Toy Boy,” and a burst of strings evocative of a Disney movie on the cabaret-style closing track “Pick Up Off the Floor.” Ultimately, “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” provides the same quirky...

Author: By Jenya O. Godina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mika | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...guard, your shoulders are up near your ears, your heart might be beating a little bit faster, you're not exactly open to having conversations with strangers. But if you're in a welcoming, safe environment, whether it's a store or a park or the barbershop where you know some people or the tavern on the corner, you're more likely to open up to a stranger. And, of course, all relationships develop from stranger to consequential stranger, and sometimes consequential strangers become close friends and we might even marry them. So place is very important in terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Importance of Consequential Strangers | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

Charlie’s: 1. Inexpensive barbershop on Mass. Ave., convenient for Quad residents. 2. Eliot St. burger joint famous for greasy burgers and nonsensical pricing ($5 for a double, $8 for a triple...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...vultures - despite their morbid reputation - will certainly respond warmly to human assistance. As the vulture barbershop quartet sings to Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book, "We're your friends to the bitter ends ... Who's always eager to extend a friendly claw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Restaurant for Vultures. Literally | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...Jesus’ Son.” “Nobody Move” is—anticlimactically—a mild pulp pastiche that doesn’t even seem to rise to its own expectations.The plot is appropriately simple: Jimmy Luntz is a barbershop singer with a gambling addiction and an outstanding debt to a small-time loan shark. The supply of clichés at work throughout the novel’s first pages practically spell out the remainder of the story—a sultry, femme fatale of a love interest; a cross-country chase...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Johnson Does Noir | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

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