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...human story through the vehicle of a minority family, without overly racializing the content, is a delicate and difficult task. Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick Fly”—a Huntington Theatre Company production which plays through March 28 at the Boston Center for the Arts’s Calderwood Pavilion—rises gracefully to the challenge. The show provides a snapshot of the wealthy, African-American LeVay family as it starts to head over the edge of an unseen precipice, while wittily examining class, race, gender roles, and familial relations...
Students of various genders, races, and cultural backgrounds gathered at an event hosted by the Harvard College Women’s Center, Queer Students and Allies, and BlackOut last night to discuss queer and ethnic communities and their shared status as marginalized identities in American society...
...country can't make a better burger, it doesn't seem to be hurting the burger business. Bill's is about to open the largest independently owned hamburger restaurant in the world, a 500-plus-seat meat cathedral in New York City's Rockefeller Center, and the Shake Shack is next opening up in Miami, Dubai and, word has it, London. But each restaurant's primary burger would be easily recognizable to Warren G. Harding. One has a potato roll, the other a sesame bun, and both have custom grinds from meat guru Pat LaFrieda, but really, they're examples...
...picture," says Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank. However, despite Washington's praise for the progress made under Uribe's leadership, the rejection of another re-election bid actually "helps American relations a lot," says Adam Isacson, a Colombia expert with the Washington-based Center for International Policy. "I don't think the Obama Administration was really relishing the idea of having to work with an ally in his third term and clearly unwilling to give up power." That would be not just because of concerns over an erosion of democracy and the monopoly...
...Baquba, the provincial capital and center of Iraq's citrus-growing region, is a largely colorless place, except for the winter orange harvest and the hundreds of campaign posters for Sunday's nationwide elections that now line the city's trash-filled streets. Still, at least the sectarian power struggle between Sunnis and Shi'ites that once raged through the city is now mostly confined to the ballot box. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...