by Renee Trilivas | March 15, 2010

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Unless you’re lacking in some serious musical education, you know who Morrissey and The Smiths are. But just in case, I’ll humor those of you who just furrowed your brow thinking “Who?!” The Smiths were a terrific Manchester rock band in the early to late 1980s. They released four studio albums from 1984 to 1987: [...](read more...)

by Patricia Ball | March 15, 2010

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I first read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the novel’s original Spanish. Marquez’s rhetoric transported me into a world that I didn’t suspect I would ever again inhabit—a world in which pleasure is glorified and sought, where women have the temperament of a bull and the heart of a dove, in [...](read more...)

by Jennifer Brown | March 15, 2010

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2009 Boston University graduate Neil Anand is a part of one of the smallest scenes in Boston: the hip-hop/rap scene. The rapper’s stage name is Aviator, which the musician took during his freshman year of college. It signifies Anand’s then-distaste for mainstream hip-hop’s culture; he was bothered that a rapper with a “hot beat and [...](read more...)