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...Schwartz campaigned on his ticket’s experience with both advocacy and student groups. Besides serving on SAC, Schwartz is also the vice-chair of the College Events Board, known recently for planning last month’s Girl Talk concert, which was canceled shortly after it began. Biggers is the CEB secretary and the president of the Association of Black Harvard Women...
Schwartz campaigned on his ticket’s experience with both advocacy and student groups. Besides serving on SAC, Schwartz is also the vice-chair of the College Events Board, known for planning the recent Girl Talk concert, which was canceled shortly after it began. Biggers is the CEB secretary and the president of the Association of Black Harvard Women...
...Indeed, a Liza Minnelli concert is never about musicality so much as it is about the psychodrama of watching show biz's most famous high-wire act try to make it to curtain call without a visit from the EMS unit. Even the minimal choreography - lots of arm thrusts and quick marches across the stage - seems to wear her out. In between songs, she gasps for air and grabs for her bottle of Gatorade as if she were an NFL cornerback returning to the bench after a 60-yard interception return. Halfway through the 2 1/2-hr. concert, she pulls...
...trouper. The luxe, schmaltz-encrusted voice that seems constantly on the verge of either laughter or hysterical tears doesn't really seem to connect with the specific lyrics she's singing, but it's expressing something - if only her fierce love of performing and need for affirmation. The concert is a testament to the power of an indomitable star of diminishing powers who still has enough adrenaline, musical instincts and smart packaging to get up there and demand our love. Maybe she even deserves...
Coincidentally, I was watching the concert movie Dave Chappelle's Block Party the other night, in which he puts on a bunch of these alternative hip-hop artists that you talk about in your book - Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West. Other than Kanye, why don't these artists sell as well as the Jay-Zs or the 50 Cents...