Word: ale
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...second portion of the concert featured English pieces, some of which were performed on a "normal" Renaissance harp, an instrument about the size of an abnormally large cat and held in the lap similarly. These ballads, with names like "My thoughts are winged with hope" and "Watkin's Ale" combined with the petite harp to bring to mind images of wandering minstrels. The last piece, "Amarilli," was an effective and thoughtfully chosen ending, as it combined the Italian and English traditions, drawing together the first and second halves of the concert...
...festival was in its third day when I arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts' Emerson Theatre to watch four short films by students of the Ma'ale School of Communication, Art of Film and Television in Jerusalem. What followed a brief introduction by festival director Sara Rubin and former Ma'ale School director Udi Lion was a revelation told in softly lilting Hebrew of aspects of Jewish culture rarely added to the American salad bowl...
Perhaps the most abstract film of the four from the Ma'ale school was Hadar Friedlich's Fast of Words, an examination of the attempts of a writer, photographer and musician to spend an entire day without speaking. The remaining films were concerned with issues particular to Judaism, yet the issues were nonetheless resonant among even non-Jews. Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake...
...tour to reclaim Boston's beer heritage lost in the puritanical Prohibition era. Take this five hour tour through old Boston's best breweries and you will not be disappointed. After all, the package includes coffee, donuts, a 46-page program, lunch, samples along the tour and a Tremont Ale and IPA to take home with you. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tremont Brewery, 50 Terminal Street Charlestown...
...Brother Patrick Concidine of St. Michael's remembers Farley's asking whether "we still had the Mass every Tuesday. I assured him that we do, and he said he would try to get back here." Then the actor made his way to the nearby Old Town Ale House, where he drank a bottle of Miller Genuine Draft. He never made it back to St. Michael's. On Thursday, Dec. 18, Farley's 300-lb. body was discovered by his brother at the actor's Chicago apartment, on the 60th floor of the John Hancock tower. He was only...