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Brendan Polmer'07-'08 Arts Editor
As any collegiate live music fan will attest, ticket prices to good shows are often way too high and out of range for the average student struggling to balance their budgets between food, booze and other unexpected expenditures. Nevertheless, there are times when it is appropriate to pay at least $150 per ticket for a show: when your parents are fronting the bill as a graduation present and when the bill for a show lists the names Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Lyle Lovett and James Taylor, among others.
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Jason GoldsteinHatchet Reporter
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - It is Sept. 8, 1973. The Vietnam War is coming to an end, the Watergate scandal is at its height, Roe v. Wade is dividing national sentiments and the Drug Enforcement Agency is created to enforce newly passed anti-drug legislation. Now picture a packed coliseum in Uniondale, N.
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Jeffrey Parker'06-'07 Arts Editor
The Arctic Monkey's first record, "Whatever You Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," was a concept album about being bored out of one's mind in Sheffield, England, and with tales of dance floor ennui and pseudo-cosmopolitans at the corner shop, it resonated well beyond Yorkshire, to any town in the world that offers nothing on a Saturday night but drink, talk of escape, and an endless sea of blinking red lights.
If you have $5: Save your money for refreshments and go check out the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, which features free live performances each day. On May 29th, the Thomas "Whit" Williams Jazz Quintet will play improvisational jazz, and on May 30th, local hip-hop dance group The First Rays will perform, featuring breaking, popping, locking and spoken word poetry.
