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HRTV’s past is littered with various creative ventures: news clips, game shows, sitcoms and even an animated cartoon depicting Harvard life from the perspective of neon birds...
...citizens of Soap Lake, Wash. have found the solution to their economic woes: a Giant Lava Lamp. The tiny rural town hopes the lamp will become a major tourist attraction, with neon psychedelic blobs of color undulating inside the 60-by-18-foot structure (about the height of Widener Library) day and night. The Soap Lake City Council fully supports the plan: “Wouldn’t you stop to see a lava lamp?” Councilor Leslie Slough asked the Boston Globe. “A great...
Although the glowing idea of a Giant Lava Lamp may not fly in Cambridge, perhaps a monument to Harvard/Cambridge friendship and cooperation is in order: a 60-foot giant neon handshake sculpture, in the place where Harvard’s 13th house would have been. And while we’re all waiting for hell to freeze over, if re-routing the Charles is a good idea...
Beethoven and Fortunato - Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. The acclaimed Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Symphony No.4; Steven Karidoyanes’s Cafe Neon, based on Greek folk themes; and Berlioz’s Summer Nights with mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato. One of only four cooperative orchestra’s in the country, the players control the orchestra to an extent completely foreign to most ensembles. Unlike traditional orchestras, Pro Arte’s players, as well as the conductor, decide what music the Orchestra will perform and who the guest artists will...
...downtown Aachen, a city in western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. With Germany teetering on the edge of recession, most stores in the neighborhood are half-empty. But on a street called Löhergraben, one store is packed: Aldi. With brown speckled floor tiles, garish neon lights and a limited assortment of products in half-opened cardboard boxes, it's the least-inviting place around. But it's also the cheapest, and so the line to Aldi's two cash registers stretches the entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their carts overflowing with...