Archive for ‘March, 2006’

Whale’s features blow

A showcase in New York City’s American Museum of Natural History features two monstrous creatures of the deep sea in a hostile embrace, a famed diorama entitled “Clash of the Titans.” Within The Squid and the Whale, this exists as a metaphorical reference to a crumbling modern family.

Think green

In the past seven years, the week of St. Patrick’s Day has become synonymous with a block of sold-out shows at the Avalon headed by Boston-bred Irish punk rockers the Dropkick Murphys. Last Thursday, as the crowd waited impatiently, a throbbing chant nearly drowned out the haunting Gaelic song playing over the PA system.

Grand Ole Jenny

Slowly emerging from backstage, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins entered the Somerville Theatre Friday night while singing a pitch-perfect rendition of a cappella album opener “Run Devil Run,” the song growing louder and louder until the girls finally reached their microphones.

Emo go Bragh in Worcester

How many of you have the internet?, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz asked, eliciting screams from the 15,000 fans packed into the sold-out Worcester Centrum last Thursday. “So then how many of you have seen me naked?” With that, Wentz put the buzz about his “really, really bad week” — plagued by LiveJournal feuds, failed stage dives and online nudie pictures — to rest and delivered exactly what fans expected: A set full of old (“Honorable Mention”), new (“XO”) and just-released (“The Music or the Misery”) songs, on-stage antics (including spray-painting Dirty, the band’s infamous merch guy, green in honor of St.

Letters to the Editor: Student activism is not a waste of time

I would like to respond to Monday’s letters on student activism by R. Paul Busco and Jordan Maurand (“College students have become active in new ways,” March 20, p.6 and “Protests by French youth are not to be admired,” March 20, p.6). Busco dismisses the “idealism of the past” as incapable of large-scale change, and writes that “student activists achieved little progress” in the 1960s.