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Today, April 16, the first of the Ivy League spring weekend events begins. Down in Philadelphia, Penn’s Spring Fling will feature performances by Snoop Dogg, Kid Cudi, and Shwayze at Franklin Field. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, some teachers have even moved assignments due today until Monday, just so their students can go partake in the fun. Harvard professors: we can haz the same for Yardfest...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yardfest Countdown: Around the Ivies | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

Yale’s Spring Fling, to be held April 27, will feature a lineup of performers that includes Mike Posner, Matt & Kim, the Ying Yang Twins, and MGMT. For an April Fool’s joke, IvyGate reported April 1 that MGMT cancelled the Yale concert because of “misogynistic artists” like SnoopDog and the Yin Yang Twins...but, as far as we can tell, the Brooklyn-based rock duo is still on its way to New Haven.  According to The Yale Daily News, MGMT had been the planning...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yardfest Countdown: Around the Ivies | 4/16/2010 | See Source »

...about participating in the event. "We suspect that the drought has severely affected our customers' itineraries in Yunnan." Those places accustomed to welcoming hordes of tourists, like Xishuangbanna's capital city of Jinghong, have previously been characterized by the most boisterous water-splashing celebrations; there, children and visitors haphazardly fling containers of muddy and colored water about, rushing back and forth to restaurants and strangers' homes to refill. Anouska Komlosy, curator of Asian ethnography at the British Museum, writes that in villages just outside the capital, the splashing has typically been more subdued. This year, even the capital is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought Throws Cold Water on Yunnan's Water Festival | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...hardest thing is when you have a new idea while writing something else. Sometimes, I take the adulterous route and write a short story—the equivalent to a literary fling. Certain stories just seize you and you feel compelled to go write them,” he said...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eugenides Dispenses Advice to Aspiring Writers at Advocate | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

Rola joked about Timberlake’s beginnings as a cast member on “The Mickey Mouse Show” alongside future fling Spears, which he said “marked the first but not the last time Britney would open for our Man of the Year...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Roasts Timberlake | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

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