Valentine’s Day, like any other consumer-driven holiday, can and should be approached as a competitive sport. Fortunately, unlike gift-based holidays like Christmas, the surest path to a Valentine’s victory doesn’t have to be paved with begrudging magnanimity.
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Tags: valentine's day, zoe's fish house
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Facebook Timeline changeover causes concern as total switch looms
Reports say that all Facebook users will be forced into having their profiles become the Timeline. Has Facebook, with all of its creativity, finally crossed the line?
Tags: Facebook, Facebook Timeline, Mark Zuckerberg
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Judie’s restaurant provides variety
Collegian columnist Garth Brody reviews Judie’s restaurant in Amherst.
Tags: Judie's, restaurant, review
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Six chilling flicks
The holidays have come and gone, and with them go the last vestiges of seasonal sentimentality. We’ve reached the cruel heart of winter, that interminable stretch between now and April during which Mother Nature treats us to her most brutal conditions: black ice, freezing winds and scraping the frost off the windshield in the morning. [...]
Tags: 30 Days of Night, Deadly Night, Dreamcatcher, Misery, Silent Night, The Shining, The Thing
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Scared to death: the morbid cultural forces behind Halloween
Professor Kirby Farrell discusses the sociological motivations at play in Halloween’s spooky symbolic language. What are we afraid of?
Tags: English Department, halloween, Kirby Farrell, special issue
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Andrew Bird Makes “Bein’ Green” Look Easy
Andrew Bird, armed with a violin and a tenor voice that makes listeners swoon, brought his playfully neurotic brand of indie folk to the Calvin Theater Thursday night.
Tags: Andrew Bird, The Lazy Projector, The Muppets
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Andrew Bird whistles his way to NoHo
Indie folk multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird headlines the Calvin Theater in Northampton tonight at 8 p.m. Opening act Dosh will perform alongside Bird.
Tags: Andrew Bird, Calvin Theatre, concert preview, Dosh
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Amherst Cinema dissects cinema science with Hitchcock
Amherst Cinema begins its “Science on Screen” film series tonight with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” Following that will be “The Fly” and “Grey Gardens.”
Tags: alred hitchcock, amherst cinema, jeff podos, science on screen
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Chris Isaak plays ‘both’ his hits at Calvin Tuesday
90s music legend Chris Isaak brought his eccentric act to the Calvin Theater this past Tuesday, Dec. 7. Donning outfits that could blind a small village during a solar eclipse, Isaak pleased the crowd with his interactive and fun set.
Tags: Calvin Theater, Chris Isaak, Mia Dyson
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Chris Isaak brings pompadour to Calvin Theater tonight
Chris Isaak is coming to town tonight, so get out your spangled vests and pompadour cuts. Everything about Isaak’s music is a consistent throwback, but he does it all without so much as a wink at the audience. He is performing at the Calvin Theater tonight.
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