Word: darkeness
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...began to see in burlesque the glimmer, the shiver, of art. It was the pole dancing, though, that really convinced me. Performance artist Erin Markey started out with comedy, talking about trying to support herself after college by becoming a stripper. Markey had a cloud of puckish hair and dark-painted eyes, and she explained that the strip club had asked her to pick a stripper name. What she chose, she explained, was Bridget, her sister’s confirmation name and the patron saint of childbirth. At first this seemed a little sacrilegious. But then Markey started to sing...
...head and begins jabbing it into the trunk. The video then quickly cuts to the words “Flashing Lights” before ending over a minute before the actual song would normally stop. When I heard this song months ago, I figured the video would feature a dark room full of Rita G’s and pulsing, (obviously) flashing lights. Kanye would probably dominate the frame and look pretty pleased with himself. Not so much, it turns out. What did I know? —Andrew F. Nunnelly
...Czar. I like to make them run, but that really has nothing to do with improv. The hardest part of improv practice is this drill we do where you have to do a scene with no break in between talking. The scenes usually get really crazy and really dark and a lot of people die, but it’s also a lot of fun.RR: What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever said? Ever.BC: The funniest thing I ever said was probably in a show freshman year when I started a scene where...
...dark, crowded room on the tenth floor of the Science Center last night, students took turns looking through a telescope at an uncommon sight: the moon darkened rust-red by the shadow of the earth...
...alternate routes to work, coming and going at different times to avoid being an easy target for assassination. As a precautionary measure he doesn't tell his colleagues when he will be arriving or leaving, and he resides in the heavily fortified Green Zone, which he never leaves after dark. "They are afraid - the security is fragile, still," Dr. Hakki says of expatriate humanitarian aid workers, with whom he pleads to return to Baghdad during his trips out of the country. "They say - they are very polite in their reply - they say we don't have the green light...