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Friday, May 25, 2012

Maia Gerlinger

Thirty days and thirty nights of literary fervor

In 1999, Chris Baty, a San Francisco Bay Area journalist, thought it might be fun to write a novel in a month. He called his project NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and 21 people participate…

Girl Talk mashes up fall LSE with frenzied fever

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The floor begins to shake. You notice that jumping up and down becomes increasingly difficult as the tiered carpets of LPAC actually bounce upwards against you when you land, probably because “That Gu…

Mash-up royalty Girl Talk set to take over campus

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Self-described as “a man playing a laptop,” Girl Talk, also known as Greg Gillis, is capable of drawing a crowd equal to that of a live band. He will be performing live on campus, on Saturday at 8:00 …

Making aural babies: The sound of Lucky Dragons

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The line between audience and musician was blurred this Saturday at the Olde Club performance of experimental band Lucky Dragons. More group activity than stage performance, Lucky Dragons is a two-per…

­Decades of history in a month? It’s an ‘Outrage’

All day Tuesday, Oct. 20, the cast and crew of “Outrage” stopped by LPAC whenever they could to help build the set. By 10 a.m., Amanda Klause ’12, the stage manager, was standing outside the doors…

Probing the essence of the annual Hootenanny

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“Hootenanny,” according to that most faithful of sources, Wikipedia, “is an Appalachian colloquialism that was used in early twentieth century America to refer to things whose names were forgotten or…