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...movie hit the theaters. This is good for the movie and good for business, but it makes rock part of a formula. When great rock tunes show up as prefab nostalgia on a movie of the week, or when they're used on TV to shill everything from brew to sneakers, the music's devalued. Its history and resonance are depreciated, embalmed in commerce...
Israel's Ethiopian community now numbers 36,000, and veterans have been employed by the government to ease the transition for newcomers. The little things can make all the difference. Because making coffee is part of the daily Ethiopian ritual, the arrivals are allowed to boil their own brew in their hotel rooms, where some may live for up to a year while taking language classes. Other problems are more insidious. The sudden switch to a high-fat and high-sugar diet is likely to increase the incidence of heart disease and cavities, which until now have been unusually rare...
Various groups follow a mixed brew of Wicca (witchcraft), paganism, New Age ideas and evocations of female power, some inspired by Native American and African traditions. Though a minority enacts malevolent spell casting and magic (not Satanism, these worshipers insist), most embrace benign beliefs, especially harmony with nature. While some draw upon ancient rituals, others invent new ones...
...could score political points with bovine procreation. But weaving bizarre connections between mind-boggling subjects is a trademark of Patrick Jake O'Rourke, an acerbic master of gonzo journalism and one of America's most hilarious and provocative writers. A conservative with libertarian leanings, O'Rourke mixes a volatile brew of one-liners and vitriol, whether writing about the greenhouse effect or Saddam Hussein. And while his writings may not convert you -- after all, this is a guy who grins when boasting about cutting down 3,400 trees on Earth Day -- they may well make you an O'Rourke-ophile...
Director Arvanitakis should be given credit for undertaking the staging of two productions, making good use of unusual props and making an effort to involve the audience in the production. The scene in which the sorcerer mixes his brew involves a particularly clever use of props, smoke and Alan Symonds' imaginative lighting...