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...Byron—who played with the Harvard Jazz Band in concert earlier this year—waits too long to resolve this atonal mayhem into something more accessible. Tension isn’t a counterpoint to his music; it’s the grammar he uses to compose...
CHARLESTON, S.C.—I didn’t approach hitchhiking with an eye-glistening wanderlust or a throat-swelling love of life. I stuck my thumb out impudently, like a child forced to apologize, then made my boyfriend do the same. We had bought tickets to a concert without realizing the show was a 40-minute drive north of the city. We don’t have a car, and we need a ride. Otherwise, the $30 tickets go to waste. The only impulse more natural to me than looking out for myself is looking...
...dream. He warmly invited me into his world of technical theatre. Especially as a woman, that is a world with difficult access, but it is also a world I loved, and still do. The day before Alan’s death, I called him. I was working at a concert in New York City, and we needed a lighting operator at the last minute for a particular type of moving-lights console. As my boss got more and more frantic, I was more and more insistent on reaching Alan. When I was walking back up the narrow revolving stairwell...
...times they are a-changing, as Bob Dylan - who will perform at a free Concert for Peace on San Sebastian's beach next Tuesday -once sang. "I think this time it's for real," says Javier Elzo, a Sociology Professor at the University of Deusto, in Bilbao. Elzo, who has been under threat from ETA for more than 10 years and dropped his bodyguards the day after the group announced its current truce, believes ETA has finally recognized that it cannot achieve its objectives through violence. "The [harsh] reaction of Basque society after breaking [the 1998 cease-fire], the police...
...good news for travelers as well as for city dwellers eager to brush up on the delights of their own turf. Once just electronic versions of printed maps, online maps can now locate everything from the best street-food vendors in New York City to the Arctic Monkeys' concert route across Britain, complete with addresses, details and occasionally images. These new-style maps, called mashups, are created by blending Internet applications such as Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps with data on just about anything to create personalized guides...