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Volume CXXXIII, Number 17 |
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Berlin to Broadway to Bowdoin
LESLIE BRIDGERS, STAFF WRITER
Last night, Wish Theater took audience members on its first trip across the Atlantic in the musical revue Berlin to Broadway. The production follows Jewish composer Kurt Weill as he flees from Germany in the 1930s to pursue his career in American musicals.
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Indie rockers Rainer Maria please Pub crowd, lose jacket
KELSEY ABBRUZZESE, STAFF WRITER
Rainer Maria brought its indie, emo-flavored rock to Jack McGee's Pub, but lead singer Caithlin de Marrais left without her jacket.
After the band played a rousing set to the senior crowd and others on pub night, de Marrais's peacoat, which had the band's van keys in the pocket, disappeared.
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Bowdoin women bare all for V-Day art show
LEAH CHERNIKOFF, STAFF WRITER
Nudity tends to stir up controversy, and the "Naked Body Image Project," a component of the V-Day Art Show in conjunction with Eating Disorder Awareness Week, is no exception.
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Dirty Dancing goes to Cuba
DIANA HEALD, STAFF WRITER
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights sizzled its way into theaters on February 27, giving viewers a glimpse of American life in Cuba in the late 1950s and all the dirty dancing that apparently accompanied it.
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DJs of the Week: Kacy Karlen & Hans Law
I remember jamming to "Heavy Fuel" by Dire Straits in the car with my dad when I was a little tyke. And really, "Sultans of Swing" defined my early musical taste.
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Every Thorn has its good tunes
KACY KARLEN, COLUMNIST
I usually tend to disregard aphorisms, but I do think I've found one that's profoundly meaningful. It goes like this: "you always discover the best things when you stop looking for them." While you go ahead and ponder the philosophical complexity of this phrase, I'll tell you why I'm so invested in it.
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Frodo lives! Rings lords over Oscars in historic sweep
MIKE NUGENT, STAFF WRITER
One Ring to rule them all, indeed.
In an extraordinary and historic sweep, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final chapter in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy, was victorious in all of its 11 nominated categories at the Oscars last weekend.
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Documentary bug bites campus film buffs
DAVIN MICHAELS, COLUMNIST
Yesterday, Bowdoin was visited by documentary filmmaker Judith Helfand, the director of Blue Vinyl, a film about the way plastics harm the environment through bio-accumulation and pollution.
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