Word: bande
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...Using a robotic camera mount and special software, photographer David Bergman stitched together 220 separate images of the Inauguration to create a large-scale photo so zoomable that you can see details down to the notes on the pages of the band's sheet music. Look, the Bush daughters had blankets! Look, Yo-Yo Ma is taking a picture with his iPhone! Look, Newt Gingrich isn't even watching Obama give his speech! On his website, Bergman says his panorama, a virtual Where's Waldo of Inauguration Day, is 59,783 pixels wide by 24,658 pixels tall; the photo...
...receive the haggis. Everyone rises as the entrée of entrails - haggis is made by stuffing a sheep's heart, liver and lungs along with oatmeal and spices into the stomach lining, so that it looks like an oddly distended football - arrives on a platter, usually with a bagpipe band following behind. Someone then gives a boisterous rendition of one of Burns' poems, "Address to a Haggis." When he recites the line about cutting the food ("An cut you up wi ready slight") he stabs the haggis dramatically, holds the food aloft and concludes with the line, "Give...
...part Jesus, especially in the Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Lucian takes a lashing and keeps on gnashing), and part Spartacus, come to free the slaves - or are they pets - kept by the vampire overlords. In a dungeon or on a dark redoubt, Lucian offers his surly band of rebels "freedom and immortality!" (Wasn't that Tony Blair's campaign slogan when Labour ousted the Tories...
...turn-of-the-century teen pop craze: "The moment Erik Bradley knew boy bands were taking over the world came on June 28, 1998 at the New World Music Theater near Chicago. 'NSync, the hunky young pop stars who'd just had a radio hit with 'I Want You Back' were opening the outdoor show. Bradley was backstage. The band was hanging out in its trailer before its brief set. Bradley smelled something odd. It seemed to be coming from a large metal fence, covered with a blue plastic tarp, which separated the bands from the performers. Then he realized...
...includes everything from clogging to caroling to serpent playing (the serpent being a snake shaped, British musical instrument of yore). Though jaunty and lighthearted throughout, the show ultimately asks the audience to question why tradition is so easily forgotten. The show employs the talents of the Mellstock Band, Casterbridge Children, and Village Quire, musical groups that play and dress as musicians would centuries ago and who come together to preserve tradition and create a spectacle of Christmas cheer. The show ties together 33 theatrical, song, and dance numbers celebrating Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the Winter Solstice with a common...