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(11/13/03 5:00am)
It might seem unusual for a band to open their tour of the U.S. at Fletcher's in Fells Point, but the Darkness didn't make it big by maintaining the status quo. Unless you consider leopard print leotards, shirtless performances and wonderfully ironic songs that make you break out the Def Leppard shirt in your closet the status quo. In which case you should stop listening to Def Leppard.
(11/13/03 5:00am)
Scout has too much talent to have so little direction. Ashen Keilyn's voice is clearly the engine that drives the band, soft and smoky, alternately brooding like a fusion of Joan Jett and Karen O's quieter moments. But their new release This Soft Life employs Keilyn in so many different enterprises that the CD sounds like a showcase more than an album.
(11/06/03 5:00am)
South's debut From Here on In made a strong impression on the British press. Their starlit, melodic pop remembered the best of shoegazers Ride and Catherine Wheel. But the album was often lost during bizarre instrumental interludes and confusing acoustic ramblings.
(10/30/03 5:00am)
The US Department of Art and Technology (US DAT) is attempting to change the face of broadcast media. Secretary of Art and Technology Randall Packer made a special presentation to the Hopkins community last weekend, showcasing his Media Deconstruction Kit (MDK). The kit, developed over the past two years, allows viewers to alter and distort live video transmissions by combining a number of real time processing tools.
(10/30/03 5:00am)
The world is a better place with Travis in it. The band nearly called it quits last summer when drummer Neil Primrose broke three bones in his neck in a diving accident. For a time, it seemed unlikely that he would ever walk again, and the future of tragedy was jeopardized. Luckily Primrose recovered fully and the band reunited to record their new album 12 Memories and tour once again.
(10/23/03 5:00am)
Elbow's up to something here. With their new album, Cast of Thousands, they're taking some of the last steps of rock and roll's creative evolution and making them count.
(10/16/03 5:00am)
The first thing you notice may be Martin Hannett's production. Like the album cover, these songs are landscapes, soundscapes, three-dimensional waves on two-dimensional backdrops. Voices echo, get stronger, whisper behind others and vibrate. A brilliant emphasis on space is revealed with each weird synth sound of shattering glass and scraping metal.
(10/09/03 5:00am)
So did The Strokes make another masterpiece? Short answer: no with a but; long answer: no but they will. Room on Fire is an absolutely solid album. It's well-crafted, well-executed and well-meaning and in fact one of the better albums of 2003. But it is not the best. It is not Is This It? It is not a masterpiece.
(10/09/03 5:00am)
When Starsailor released their debut, Love is Here, in 2001, they split critics right down the middle. Either they were the second coming of Radiohead circa OK Computer or they were petty conventionalists. But everyone agreed that Starsailor was a group of talented musicians, unafraid to delve into confessionalist, brutal, often soul-stripping portraits.
(09/25/03 5:00am)
Along with their diplomas, seniors receive a guarantee each spring. While the diploma may say Johns Hopkins across the top, the Middle States Association (MSA) delivers the guarantee. A private, nonprofit association, the MSA evaluates its member schools and ensures the public that accredited institutions are, in fact, meeting certain standards.
(09/04/03 5:00am)
Welcome to Johns Hopkins University, an almost great place to go to school. Chances are Hopkins was among your top college choices and that you're more or less expecting to have an adequate time here. Well, you're in luck. While many schools might spend countless hours and countless millions trying to achieve adequacy, Hopkins has been merely adequate for years now. In fact, JHU is light years ahead of the competition in terms of providing a passable undergraduate experience.
(09/04/03 5:00am)
Here's hoping incoming freshmen like the sight of brick. Construction around campus is still in full gear as renovations take place on the Garland quad and new buildings are erected on the west side of campus.
(05/01/03 5:00am)
Paul Nerenberg looks at Sara Marten and they understand. Leaning on the wooden railings outside the Gatehouse, the juniors explain their amazing story. It starts back in mid-October and ends with them and five other Hopkins undergrads traveling to Houston to board a NASA jet. And as they weave back and forth through an adventure that finds them stressed, excited, queasy, even, at times, weightless, it is still difficult to grasp just exactly what these students went through.
(05/01/03 5:00am)
A hundred freshmen signed up for a club that couldn't hold activities last fall.
(04/24/03 5:00am)
I am writingthis on the night Tracy McGrady scored 46 points in a losing effortagainst Detroit. Or, a night after Kevin Garnett pulled down 20 boardsto best the Lakers. Or, if you will, two nights after Allen Iverson hadthe greatest postseason performance anyone has seen since MichaelJordan dropped 63 points on the Celtics back in '86. Iverson scored 55points on 21-32 shooting scoring 20 points in the fourth quarter alonein his game one opener against the Hornets.
(04/24/03 5:00am)
Lindsay Eastwood is one of the latest SARS victims. She doesn't have the usual symptoms of high fever or dry cough, but the SARS virus-short for severe acute respiratory syndrome-has certainly taken its toll on her.
(11/21/02 5:00am)
Ask any crew member and they'll tell you what waking up at 5:00 a.m. is like. The alarm rings and you start to cringe. It's dark, cold and going back to bed is the only thing you can think of. But Tuesday's Leonid meteor shower displayed some of the best skyborne theatrics the earth will see in the next 96 years.
(11/17/02 5:00am)
Pete's Grill
(11/07/02 5:00am)
At one point or another, you will run into a roommate who will kick you out of the room just so he can get it on. So the next time you get sexiled the night before your Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves midterm, take some advice and drive your roommate insane with behavior he can't really get mad at you for! The list assumes you have little social respect in the first place and won't mind your roommate talking even more crap about you than he already does, you freak.
(10/31/02 5:00am)
On any given day, only about two things could stop me flipping out about the meals at Terrace. The first is cereal, the only real fail-safe the cafeterias offer. The second are tuna and saltines, available (for theft) right by the soups.