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Friday, May 25, 2012


Alexandra Rodriguez


Spiffy up your dorm room with minimum stress

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The average dorm room is typically a cramped, unadorned space. But a dorm can serve as functional art, offering a malleable canvas for self-expression Anyone can create a unique, individualized sanctu…

Conquering Mondays through classical music

As classical music stations gradually fade into static and schools struggle to fund their music programs, have we found ourselves fighting to nourish a dying species?

Despite its many remaining devote…

Duchamp and Dadaism in Philly

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The unsettling fascination of a first glimpse of Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage affirms the singular story of its development. This piece by Marcel Duchamp, a French American w…