Word: artistes
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Discussions and cultural workshops will be offered throughout the day, including one centered on the issue of Asian Americans and transgenderism given by Selena Whang, a transgender performing artist from New York University...
Michelle Taggart, 27, looks to be the best American women's halfpipe artist. A veteran and four-time World Champion, Taggart has made an impressive comeback run this season, including wins at both Mount Bachelor and ESPN's alterna-event, the X-Games, to become the first freestylist named to the squad. A resident of Salem, Ore., Taggart is one of the few active riders to have won both racing and freestyle titles, though she now focuses her efforts solely on the halfpipe. One of the sport's true female pioneers, Taggart has triple the contest experience of her competitors...
DiFranco takes another chance--one that works--on Pulse, a sliding, slippery jazz-folk number that stretches on for 14 minutes. On the whole, Little Plastic Castle is a sharp, indulgent, fascinating album, the kind that an artist can probably release only when he or she owns the record company. Let's hope DiFranco never signs with anyone but herself...
...approach recalls Sam Rayburn's famous line about the Ivy League intellects whom President John F. Kennedy assembled as advisers: "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just run for sheriff once." Notes Simonson: "Paul Simon is an amazing artist. But there are reasons why the theater process has evolved the way it has. You can only reinvent the wheel so many ways...
...reportedly even more prickly about proposed changes in the book he and Simon had written.) "I guess if you really become insistent on being happy with what's going on, some people are going to think you're difficult," Simon responds. "I don't think so. That's an artist's right." Yet an impending opening can focus the mind, and Simon eventually became convinced that he needed help from an experienced Broadway hand like Zaks. "Jerry was mandated to make great incisions in the show," says Morris, the director he supplanted. "Some of the stuff I had wanted...