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...February 2, 1959, Holly and his tourmates were on the eleventh night of their Winter Dance Party tour through the snow-covered Midwest. It was a Monday - a school night - but 1,100 teenagers crammed into Clear Lake, Iowa's Surf Ballroom for two sold out shows. They wore blue jeans and saddle shoes and screamed for 17-year-old Richie Valens, whose single "Donna" was about to go gold. Between sets, Holly solicited people to join him on the charter airplane he'd hired to fly to the next show in Moorhead, Minnesota. The musicians had been traveling...
...Saturday night at the American Economics Association's conference, and Peter Orazem has just taken the podium in an overcrowded ballroom at the San Francisco Hilton. Hundreds of fellow Ph.D.s in Dockers, blue dress shirts and thick glasses fill the seats and line the walls. They've come to hear several economists offer their unique perspectives amid one of the worst financial crises in history, and Orazem, an Iowa State University economics professor, starts off discussing a government plan to combine health care and homeland security. "Now, instead of sending you to the doctor, they send you through airport security...
...Globes are supposed to be a bellwether for the Oscars, which is one reason that so many film folk came to the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Then there's the open bar and free eats (though the dinner portion is over by 5 p.m. P.T., when the TV broadcast begins). But the true compact between the HFPA mavens and the movie glitterati is this: We're going to lure all you Hollywood swells to our party - where you'll be seen by millions of TV viewers and you'll promote our lodge of foreign journalists - by nominating...
...death) and the 1962 Cosmic Ray (with a stripper dancing to Ray Charles' What'd I Say) birthed a subgenre of avant-garde films and inspired the '60s wave of multimedia art in concert halls and discos. (Conner also designed light shows at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom.) Some of his films were more politically explicit - Report, on the Kennedy assassination, and Crossroads, on the A bomb - but all were things of beauty and horror. Conner is survived by Jean Sandstedt, his wife of 50 years...
From classical ballet to ballroom dancing, the Harvard Ballet Company’s “Pointes of Departure” demonstrates its versatility. The aptly titled show—which starts today and will run through Sunday, November 23—showcases the work of student, alumni, and professional choreographers, using classical ballet as a point of departure into the world of modern and contemporary movement. Larissa D. Koch ’08-’09 and Matthew L. Mendez ’09 worked to create the first piece by a student choreographer and student composer...