Mezey, Barnes introduce the other Borges

Ariane Balizet

We can only fondly assume that Professors emeriti Dick Barnes and Robert Mezey reserved a special affinity for this poignant meditation (see boxed poem) on the frustrations of literary scholarship during the ten years they have spent together translating and editing the complete poems of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges. The fruits of their labor will be at our fingertips this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday when they, along with six other scholars hailing all the way from Crookshank to Dublin and Buenos Aires, will present The Poet Borges: A Centenary Celebration. [con't]

Karate Flexes Chops

Aiden Doherty

Karate took the stage this past Tuesday night, September the 28th, and provided a respectable start to the KSPC Blowout concert series. Although billed with an 8:00 PM start the concert did not get underway until approximately 8:40, due to an understaffed tech crew. The opening band, Kind of Like Spitting, gave an inauspicious start to the night, bringing confessional angst punk to new levels of obnoxiousness. Pain was the theme of the band’s music and in fact also the primary reaction to it; a better name for the band might be Kind of Like Passing a Large Kidney Stone. [con't]

So, let’s go through this again. We, Richard and Drew, the Inland Emperors, have found two things wrong with Pomona College. First, we have this wonderful Empire surrounding us, the Inland Empire (named after the first mayor of Upland, The Honorable Hamish P. Inland) and we as a school don’t give a rat’s tookus about it. For Pete’s sake, this Empire was given to us, like manna from heaven. The least we can do is collect an omer of manna flakes for each person in our tent and not keep any for the morrow (Exodus 16, and that’s from the Bible, bee-yatch!). [con't]

String Quartet Plays Pomona, Stays A While

Samantha Brenner

This past Tuesday night, the Alexander String Quartet arrived on Pomona’s campus for a four-day residency. The San Francisco-based ensemble is widely regarded as one of the finest contemporary chamber music ensembles. They spend a great deal of time on tour, appearing in major music halls throughout North America and Europe. The Quartet was to visit classes and hold open rehearsals Wednesday through Friday, and will perform at Bridges Hall of Music on Saturday evening, bringing a bit of culture to our bubble of a campus. [con't]

PoSA Declares, Let Them Eat Paste

Robyn Kessel

Most of you missed the bookmaking workshop PoSA put on this past Saturday afternoon. That’s really too bad. This wasn’t just another arts and crafts escapade to let such sophisticated and mature college students like ourselves play, with safety scissors and edible paste. PoSA’s workshop offered the opportunity to learn a useful and impressive skill in addition to the satisfaction of creating something. In that PoSA style, the workshop provided just the sort of laid-back atmosphere and patient instruction one might hope to find as solace from a lingering hangover or from an over-worked cerebral cortex. [con't]

The Minus Man

Adam Graham-Silverman

The scene in which two detectives scowl down at the suspected killer who sits at a steel desk while a lone light bulb swings menacingly overhead never occurs in Hampton Fancher’s accomplished directorial debut The Minus Man. But quiet, well-mannered serial killer Vann Siegert, played in beautiful understatement by Owen Wilson (who co-wrote and appeared in Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, and has acted as comic relief in blockbuster product such as Armageddon), fantasizes about it all the time. [con't]

Ben Harper, Burn to Shine

Samantha Brenner

Ben Harper’s fourth album, Burn to Shine, is both an attempt at finding a happy medium between 1997’s harder Will to Live and his softer, more soulful records that preceded it, and a step in his continued movement away from that sound. The fact that the name on the cover is Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, instead of just Ben Harper, is a clue as to the new musical direction Harper takes. [con't]

Styles of Beyond, 2000 Fold

David Roth

Leg warmers and those little, like, animal/pet Tamagochi things might’ve seemed like good ideas at the time, but they wore out their welcome because, after the flush of novelty, there was nothing there. This happens to fads.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the mainstream media coverage it received of late, pop hip-hop has all the markings of a fad. Essentially, most mainstream hip-hop is hollow; an exercise done without much emotion by entrepreneurs, sold to an audience that consumes it without knowing exactly why (because it’s, like, on MTV?). [con't]

Folk Musicians Rock Fun and Friendly

Sara Sherrod

Last Tuesday marked the first evening in a new series of cultural music concerts held in Little Bridges. Kofaragok, a Hungarian folk band, started the series off with a friendly, spirited bang. Kofaragok translates to "The Stonemasons," a prickly moniker wholly at odds with their user-friendly performance. Formed earlier this year, they play traditional Hungarian folk music, both ancient and modern. Singer Kati Szvorak, who has been singing folk songs for almost twenty years, heads up the troupe. She has given more than two thousand concerts in 27 countries on three continents. [con't]

OTL Gets Loose Under the Stars

Aiden Doherty

On the Loose, the Claremont Colleges’ outdoor club, went on their first Moonlight Hike this past Saturday, September 25. Every full moon OTL invites new and regular members to hike up to San Antonio falls on the slopes of Mount Baldy.

Hikers met at Baxter Medical Center parking lot from 10:00 to 10:30pm, and then carpooled to the nearby mountain and began the hike. Some of the new members faltered on the course of the steep ascent, although none were injured. [con't]