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This local duo (Amanda Palmer, piano and voice; Brian Viglione, drums), sometimes described for its theatric, piano-driven songs as “punk cabaret,” celebrates the release of its new record. Some may also recognize Palmer from her stint as the whitewashed statue/street performer in the Square, which helped earn her the title “Best Indie Art Ringleader” from the Boston Pheonix in 2002. 8 p.m. $12; 18+. Paradise Rock Club, 967-969 Commonwealth...
DIED. ELISABETH WELCH, 99, American-born expatriate cabaret and jazz singer, adored by Cole Porter, Noel Coward and Paris cafe society; outside London. A hit on the London stage, she later took her mellow voice to New York City; she made a splash in Porter's New Yorkers by singing Love for Sale, a song about prostitution. In the 1980s she won acclaim for her one-woman show A Time to Start Living and the musical revue Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood...
...female executive in the men's club of Japanese business, Yoshimi Ogawa has to watch her step. "It's difficult to do business when so many meetings are conducted in cabaret bars," she says, referring to the Japanese propensity for after-hours schmoozing and boozing...
...Died. Elisabeth Welch, 99, American-born cabaret singer who found acclaim in Europe for stage performances of such hits as Cole Porter's Love for Sale; in London. American audiences discovered Welch's warm style after she returned to the U.S. to perform...
...before the short Antarctic travel season kicks off in mid-November. Avoid the large cruise lines, because not only are their expeditions more expensive than those on smaller ships but they also don't make regular landfalls on the ice and their insular atmosphere (not to mention bingo and cabaret) keeps you from experiencing the true remoteness of the continent...