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...tenth in their division. The duo saved the best for last, recording a third-place finish in the regatta’s final race.“There were some good sailors,” Himler said. “It’s kind of tough going against older kids, but it’s a good learning experience.”Boston College won the team title.—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu...
...however, is just how familiar many of the songs sound. “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings” features all the usual tropes of a Counting Crows album: the LA/New York divide; the bittersweet nature of love; isolation and depression. Duritz has also lifted numerous lines from older songs; “When I Dream of Michelangelo” is a veritable pastiche of old lyrics, and the name itself is a line from the song “Angels of the Silences.” But all is forgiven when out of a familiar verse comes...
...rests primarily on its once-famous heartthrob, Freddie Prinze, Jr., whose 90s career is on the verge of being forgotten by the current teeny-bopper audience. The “She’s All That” star emerges from the depths of post-teen stardom, slightly older and chubbier, to reclaim his role as pretty boy. Prinze’s mediocre performance is a perfect match to the film’s corny plot, which isn’t terrible but nonetheless fails to rise above the chick-flick genre. Prinze plays Jack, a heartless and materialistic advertising...
...affair, and even her daughter, Annie is possibly the most flawed character. But her pitfalls, while frustrating, evoke our sympathies. In the midst of the adults’ tumultuous drama, Arthur develops a new relationship with his classmate, Lila (Olivia Thirlby, “Juno”). As the older characters become entrenched in a complex web of deception and animosity, Arthur and Lila’s banter is mercifully humorous and lighthearted. Their manner of dealing with the world around them is genuine, beautiful, and adorable—and seems more mature than the coping strategies used...
...wide audience. “It was very important for me that this show could bring Yiddish music to people who otherwise would not hear it,” she says, “that anyone could go to this show and appreciate everything, whether it was an older person from the Boston community who knew all these songs growing up and is now reminiscing over them, or someone who doesn’t know the first thing about Yiddish or Jewish music and can still sit down and enjoy the show.”This entire process, which began...