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June 5, 2026
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Baca, Spearhead give democracy a new 'look'

By Carl Burnett | October 24, 2002

"Everyone deserves music" was one refrain Michael Franti shouted and sang over and over again last night, during "What Does Democracy Look Like?," an event that ambitiously sought to blend art with politics. The performers-cum-activists on the evening's lineup included Franti, who performed with his nationally renowned hip-hop group Spearhead, and Judith Baca, a Los Angeles muralist who is a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth this term. After an introduction by Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences director Linda Fowler -- who cracked that this was the first Rocky-sponsored event in some time where the average audience age was under 65 -- Baca took the stage in the Hopkins Center's Alumni Hall. Clad in a brightly printed shirt, Baca smiled warmly as she introduced the crowd of several hundred students and a few dreadlocked locals to her art. The audience, seated on the floor, were rapt as Baca used a video presentation to outline her career as a community artist and co-founder of the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Los Angeles.

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'Igby' meanders but enthralls

By Nathan Ruegger | October 22, 2002

"Igby Goes Down" is a film that goes neither down, up, left, right or in any direction. Starstudded and overflowing with spellbinding acting and compelling drama, this movie is so faithful to the concept of real-life filmmaking, that it meanders aimlessly away from any comfortable story structure. "Igby Goes Down" tells the dark, somber and yet incisive coming-of-age tale about a young man's quest versus the world.

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Corea & co. 'elektrify' Spaulding with two-hour set

By Lindsay Barnes | October 21, 2002

Jazz legend Chick Corea and his Elektric Band rocked Spaulding Auditorium Thursday night with a loud combination of jazz, rock, blues and Latin music that added up to an amalgam that was distinctly their own. From the first note of the concert, the audience was exposed to a hurricane of sound.

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Lynch offends, induces laughs

By Carl Burnett | October 17, 2002

"Most of my material is stolen directly from the works of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Hustler Magazine," comic musician Stephen Lynch recently told Time Out New York, his tongue no doubt well-ensconced in his cheek. Thanks to his tuneful acoustic ballads about necrophilia and priests molesting altar boys, Lynch has accumulated a loyal college following over the last few years.

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'Kindred Spirits' same old line

By Eric Lindley | October 2, 2002

The tribute album is a tricky musical beast. Ideally, the newer versions of the songs should highlight melodic, lyric or timbral elements of the original that have inspired contemporary artists to pursue their own work.

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Williams dissapoints in 'Photo'

By Peter Jenks | September 30, 2002

Robin Williams has had a rather varied film career. Somewhere between "Mrs. Doubtfire," "What Dreams May Come" and "Death to Smoochy," the quality of his films has slipped.

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