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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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