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...Lady GaGa’s “Beautiful Dirty Rich” blares as the models filed onto the makeshift catwalk to strut their designers’ stuff. After a pretty damned impressive show, the models strike a pose next to their waiting designers...
Similar scenes were repeated all over the East Coast. Listeners poured into the streets. Some headed to church. Others headed to spend their last hours on Earth with family. Wet towels served as makeshift gas masks to protect against the poison gas the radio said was headed outward from New Jersey. Many were convinced it was the end of the world...
...found Casas de la Esperanza. The nonprofit organization, which was started in Cambridge, offers aid to families living in the outskirts of Granada, Nicaragua, including the semi-urban community La Prusia, which is home to over 200 families. Many of these families face harsh living conditions, squatting in makeshift houses with dirt floors...
About 300 Post-Its were affixed to surprising locations around campus, just in time for Head of the Charles. The fugitive poets—an invite-only group of foodies, ninjas, computer programmers, and writers—photographed their makeshift art installations to document the project for fugitivepoetics.com, which goes live in about a week. Experiencing “vigilante art” first-hand, we began to enjoy working with Fugitive Poetics, despite the contrived mystery surrounding them...
Billy hangs high on the wall of Cabot Dining Hall. The framed photo focuses on his gaping mouth, out of which rolls a thick red tongue pierced by a full-sized steel fork. A makeshift title cut from a newspaper—the superlative, “Most Likely to...SUBVERT THE SYSTEM”—accompanies the picture...