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Brooke ¹89 moves from the Sabrinas to national tours

The early years The alumna hails from Boston, Mass., where her family encouraged her love for music beginning at a young age. With a trumpet-playing father, a piano-loving mother and a brother addicted to playing Scottish bag pipes, music was an inescapable part of growing up for the

The Unicorns take a whimsical tone to death

A horse of a different color, the Unicorns (Nicholas “Niel” Diamonds, Alden Ginger and of late, Jamie Tambour) are the perfect synthesis of pop music and My Little Pony. Their full-length debut album “Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?” was touted by many critics as one

The Strokes' sophomore effort sets 'Room on Fire'

You probably remember the Cambrian Explosion of the infamous “the” bands-the Vines, the Hives, the Strokes, the White Stripes-from your high school or early college career. Although the similarity between these bands (beyond sharing a common definite article) was questionable, the MTV audience tended to group them all

the personals: questions for Sarah Harper '07

There are a lot of subtle differences. For example, there seem to be a lot less McDonalds per capita, which surprisingly bothers me. There are a lot of prep schools out here, which are virtually nonexistent in the Midwest. Obviously, the traffic is worse. The one major difference that I

Daily Jolt founder Winer '01 aims at national reform

Gupta told Winer about an idea for a one-stop website where Amherst students could go to find information relevant to their daily lives. They named their initial template for the site “Amherst Central.” “There had been some good things within the [external] Amherst website, but they were very hard

The Fung-Wah Fun

The Fung-Wah bus company runs hourly buses between Boston and New York’s Chinatown, for a ridiculously low fare of $10. As proud students of economics 11, we deduced that in this instance the marginal benefit clearly exceeded the marginal cost. Just trying to get on the bus was

THIS WEEK IN AMHERST HISTORY, November 2, 1971: We're Co-ed!

The Amherst Student staff wrote the following in response to this event: “The Lord and George Shinn move in mysterious ways. It took Amherst College only 153 years to join the human race. Hallelujah! The trustees’ decision to make Amherst a college dedicated to the education of men and women