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Arts   May 6, 2008
Warming up for Feet to the Fire
By Andrea Domanick and Gabriel Sessions
While students will likely spend the upcoming week thinking of little else besides tests and textbooks, Kira Akerman ’10 will be putting the final touches on her grass-covered sculpture, to be displayed in Saturday’s first-ever Feet to the Fire Festival. The Festival intends to bring together students, local scientists and artists to address the consequences of global climate change through interdisciplinary artwork.

Arts   May 6, 2008
Record Review: "The Slip," Nine Inch Nails
By David Abravanel
It’s nice to see an artist put his money where his mouth his. In 2007, shortly after the release of his album “Year Zero,” Nine Inch Nails’ mastermind Trent Reznor declared that he was done and disgusted with record labels�"apparently, the inflated price of his albums in Australia was the tipping point. One year and an acrimonious split from Interscope later, Reznor has lived up to his ideals: with very little fanfare, the new Nine Inch Nails album, “The Slip,” was made available for free download from the NIN website on May 5, released by Reznor’s own Null Corporation label.

Arts   May 6, 2008
Top 5: Reasons you need to stop trying to convince us "Iron Man" is a good movie
By Andrea Domanick & Gabriel Sessions
5. Pepper Potts’s character is too multifaceted for just two hours and 20 minutes.

4. The electromagnet in RDJ’s chest appears to have sucked away all traces of plot connectivity.