Arts
Jazz Joints
On Feb. 10, 1938, Sidney Bechet walked into a Decca Records studio in New York and cut a track called “Viper Mad.” The song, which Bechet composed with musician Rousseau Simmons, was an ode to smoking marijuana. O’Neill Spencer sang the lyrics over Bechet’s clarinet: “wrap your chops round this stick of tea / blow […]
Blown Away: Mahler’s Symphony No. 3
“At the dress rehearsal, I say to the orchestra, ‘See you in church,’” Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, in his pre-concert lecture. On the night of April 11, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra performed Gustav Mahler’s colossal Symphony No. 3 on the gilded stage of Symphony Hall. Lasting over 100 minutes across six […]
Exploring American Hometowns: NYC Fog
Growing up is a funny thing—you begin to feel your frontal lobe developing, raising your fear factor, and improving your logical decision-making abilities. Looking back, some of the things I did during my freshman year of high school in the Big Apple are honestly shocking. Coming of age in New York City allowed for an […]
Where Nothing Quite Resolves
I listen to Lana Del Rey when I want to feel sad. Not a heartbreak type of sad. Not the devastating type of sad. It’s the specific sadness of a Sunday afternoon with no plans, no texts or emails to respond to, and no reason to get out of bed. That kind of sad. For […]
Smoke Sesh
“Sorry guys, I forgot to charge mine.”
“Rubber Soul” Reconsidered
After performing at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, The Beatles sought some relaxation in the Delmonico Hotel in Manhattan. Bob Dylan entered the suite, one of the group’s lifelong music idols, bearing gifts—a bag of marijuana buds—as he believed the four to be avid smokers. In “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” by The Beatles, Dylan […]
Exploration, Optimization, and the Art of Choosing Concentrations
Hello everyone. I want to tell you a story about someone—someone I know, or maybe just someone you might recognize. For convenience, I’ll call this person “I.” Not because this story is entirely mine, but because it’s become a little too common. So, I wanted to let you all know that after doing lots of […]
City Turkeys
“I love Boston—the people are so polite! They always make way for us on the road.”
On WHRB: Harvard College’s Official Student-Run Radio Station
WHRB (W: East of the Mississippi River, HRB: Harvard Radio Broadcasting) 95.3 FM is Harvard’s official radio station. Founded in 1940 as the Harvard Crimson Network, the station, housed in the basement of Pennypacker Hall, has been run by undergraduate students for eighty-six years, including yours truly. WHRB’s current undergraduate staff is furthering a long-standing […]