Word: amateurness
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Bishop Allen is not just another amateur garage band waiting to be discovered—they are already making themselves a living. For Rudder, the band is as much an entrepreneurial venture as an artistic dream. The band is his third business venture, following the software company he founded in his senior year...
...range of opportunities for older thespians is vast. It includes amateur groups that have no budget, like the Atherton Players in Alhambra, Calif., who perform unmemorized scripts written by their leader, Pat Lane, 77. They put on three or four plays a year for their fellow residents at the Atherton Baptist Home, a retirement community. Lane's one rule is that every member of the troupe--even those with limited mobility--be treated equally. "Whoever comes to rehearsals is guaranteed a part," she says...
This event, held in Lowell Lecture Hall, features professional dancers, storytellers and musicians and amateur Harvard student performance groups like the Expressions Dance Company, the ’04 Steppers and the Kuumba Singers...
...found America the friendliest, most forgiving, and most generous nation I had ever visited,” Borges once said. “We South Americans tend to think in terms of convenience, whereas people in the United States approach things ethically. This, amateur Protestant that I am, I admired above...
...like Seinfeld, he can “take elements from everyday life and make it entertaining.” One only wishes that Murs had a more meaningful everyday life. With songs about compulsive shopping for Star Wars: Episode II action figures (“B.T.S.”), amateur skateboarding (“Transitions of a Rider”) and seratonin reuptake inhibitors (“Happy Pills”), the album is slim pickings for compelling topics...