Monday >> You can be fairly certain that when a rapper takes a stagename that is a play on Hawthorne, you’re going to be dealing with a hip-hop experience concerned with more than just the next glass of Courvoiseir. Hesta Prynn and her cohorts in Northern State take the Black Cat backstage with Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion, the new project from half of the fantastic Bitch & Animal. This ought to be a mainstage…

Your computer freezes. Your mouse barely works. The program you need to run immediately to get that report done just won’t load. You press ctrl-alt-del, manually reset your machine, and just when you think the problem is solved, there it is: the blue screen of death. These are moments when you long to smash your computer to bits. After all, it is just a stupid machine, right? Unfortunately, in addition to the monetary damage…