Pitches, Dins, and The Yale Spizzwinks(?)

I blame the screaming, catcalling, and excessive giggling in the below video on the fact that I’m sitting in the second row of the Pitches alumni section in Sanders Theater on Saturday night.  It was “Jamboree,” a concert featuring the best of both schools’ jazz a cappella: The Radcliffe Pitches, The Yale Spizzwinks (?), and [...]

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Kuumba, Body & Soul, H-Y weekend recap

So all told, the weekend made a spectacular recovery after a rocky start on Thursday night. First off, we won on the field, but even the victory paled in comparison to the general mood of revelry and jubilation that descended on campus.
Saturday night, post a post-game nap (and major thawing session), and pre-victory celebrations, some [...]

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THUD Flood

I love THUD, maybe a little too much.
Their concerts are always so much fun–maybe because they combine talent, whimsy, and wit, and maybe because they fulfill the dreams of anyone who banged on kitchen pots and thought it sounded good.

Last night’s show, while small, did not dissappoint. The program blended original compositions–including the classic ‘cups’ [...]

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Artist Development Fellow Spotlight: Alexander Berman ‘10

Alexander Berman ’10 intended to shoot a documentary about the ecological problems surrounding Kamchatka, Siberia (the Russia Sarah Palin can see from her backyard). But instead he ended up with a different film altogether, spending three weeks in the Siberian wilderness with a group of reindeer herders, climbing Siberian mountains, and riding military tanks.

Last [...]

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Movie Night: Perkins 28

For those of you with spare time this evening, may I suggest catching one of the two showings of “Perkins 28″ (7 and 9pm, SOCH theater). The film is an important look at the secret court established by President Lowell to investigate the homosexual community on Harvard’s campus. Starring an entirely undergraduate cast, the film [...]

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Narrating the Paul Chan Experience

Now Showing at The Carpenter Center November 6, 2008–January 4, 2009; Lecture by Chan on November 13, 2008, 6p with a reception to follow.
I walk into the exhibit space on Friday at noon. They are still constructing the space, placing finishing touches to the exhibits, [...]

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“I’m Sorry– I couldn’t hear you over the SYMPHONY” Harvard Arts Takes a Field Trip

Thursday night, my roommate and I took a field trip to Symphony Hall to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra, courtesy of free student rush tickets from the Office for the Arts. We went in with open minds and high expectations– we didn’t have a clue what the program was, but we were confident that the [...]

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“Casting the First Ballot” Women’s Center Art Show

Tomorrow marks the culmination of a presidential race that began way back when I was a freshman, over two years ago. Since then, politics, it seems, has been everywhere. Broadcast networks have assigned teams of embedded reporters whose tours of service have been longer than those of some of their counterparts in Iraq; op-ed writers [...]

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Harvard Organ Society @ Mem Church

Have you seen that movie A Nightmare Before Christmas– the Tim Burton film with the wonderfully odd and freaky Halloween characters who inhabit a world of spindly trees and surrealist skies?
That’s what Friday night was like, and I mean that in the best possible way. It was one of those autumn nights where the wind [...]

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Veritones/Krokodiloes at Sanders Theatre

It’s always a little bittersweet for me to go to an a cappella concert and see the singers having a blast on stage. I haven’t sung a note with The Radcliffe Pitches since last year, and last night’s joint concert featuring the Veritones and the Krokodiloes made me realize again just how much fun [...]

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