January 08, 2015 (vol. 124, iss. 42) • Page Image 7
…Bthe b-side In October, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, two members of Pussy Riot, the punk rock protest group from Russia, took the stage of the Michigan Theater. The women did not don their neon balaclavas or break out in their provocative, political per- formance art during their Thursday evening Penny Stamps lecture (though videos of their discordant demonstrations preceded the talk giving context to the issues and methods ...…