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La Cenerentola Puts Twist on Classic Tale
BY CRYSTAL STOHR

There aren’t many mediums where a punch line can be repeated and still be as funny as the first time around. Opera is one of them, especially in the case of Gioacchino Rossini’s comic masterpiece La Cenerentola. Not only is it a pleasant, light-hearted fare in the best of Italian opera tradition, but it serves as a virtuosic vehicle for its stars. And Oberlin’s finest did not disappoint.
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This Hamburger is as Funny as a Punch in the Face
BY NICK STILLMAN

Relatively speaking, Oberlin College is a bizarre place. The biggest all-campus party dictates that students dress as members of the opposite sex, everyone tends to become much more fired up over politics than football and flamboyantly-dyed hair surprises no one around here. Still, it would have been impossible for everyone at Sunday’s Neil Hamburger performance to have been prepared for the absurd antics awaiting them.
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La Cenerentola Puts Twist on Classic Tale

This Hamburger is as Funny as a Punch in the Face

Ex-Obie Wright Talks Poetry

Outkast, Ludacris Take Cleveland by Storm

American Composer Adams Delivers Convocation

Nonken Presents Abstract Musical Structures

Hamburger Talks Love, Rap and Comedy

New Muse Performs Student Dreams

Art Library Exhibit Provides Different View of Books