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...Every Cirque show, even one as primal as this, has a story line. Here, a boy in striped pajamas (Stéphan Landry) receives a big red box. He opens it and pop!, out springs Jack, a lithe, saucy, strutting trickster (Adam Mike Tyus). This Jack-be-limber cues an instant circus fantasia: 16 scamps in parade regalia (gold jackets, white pants, red fezzes) who launch into a charivari - the kind of tumbling act that populates your most soaring dreams, where you feel graceful and defy gravity. At the rear of the stage there's a three-story bandstand, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cirque du Soleil's Clowning Kooza | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

From the moment the five members of Black Kids set off in their animated roller coaster car into the terrifying Tune Town tunnel, we know we’re in for a treat—and boy, do we get one! Floating past cartoon guitars and keyboards—just like the ones they use!—their yellow seats burst apart and the gang is thrust into an entirely new dimension—where light shoots in columns, winds rush from nowhere, singers wear outfits that are made of metallic purple plastic and sleek leather, and vicious guitar...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Black Kids | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

Things rarely come in groups of six. Sextuplets (by birth or in a boy band) are uncommon and overwhelming, while musical arrangements are more likely to be written for a quartet or a quintet. Because of this, if the word sestet rings a bell, it is likely that the cognizance dates back to your high school unit on poetry. The sestet is commonly known as the last 6 lines of a sonnet, usually demarcating a turn in thought. And though a sestet can be any six-lined stanza or poem, with “Sestets,” the latest...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Sestets' Illuminate Space Between Physic and Aesthetic | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...this really wrong,” he said, feigning disappointment. “What do you sing apart from that?” In what is surely a bizarre coincidence, the show’s producers happened to have a track of the very backup song the boy wanted to sing, “Who’s Loving You” by the Jackson 5, already cued. While the other judges reacted to the preternaturally talented young crooner by dropping their jaws and slapping their cheeks, Cowell simply sat back in his chair and grinned. Everything had gone...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Truly Boyles Down To | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...Known for his charm and ease at massive rallies, Zuma has been criticized for pandering to popular prejudices like homophobia; he once boasted that when he was a boy, he would "knock out" gay people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Jacob Zuma, South Africa's New President | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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