Word: diva
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Jazz Week Catch the last weekend of “Jazz Week” and commemorate Duke Ellington’s birthday. Sax diva Grace Kelly will be playing at Borders in Back Bay. 511 Boylston St., Boston. Saturday, 7 p.m. Free! Rock On Do you like cheap concerts? The Casual Fiasco and The Brew are playing at Best of Boston’s Paradise Rock Club and Lounge. Rock on. 967-969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Friday. $10 Jazz it Up! Give your ears a rest after Third Eye Blind with jazz-latin fusion vocalist Marta Gomez at the nearby...
...confused—3EB? This millenium? Really? Like, they’re totally a good band and all (Mid-90s Locution Alert: “…NOT”). And I admire lead singer Stephan Jenkins’ long-term dedication to being an unrepentant rock star diva, even though he’s not actually a rock star anymore. But I’ve always thought that the point of Yardfest is to bring a band to campus that students keep liking even after their voices change. Middle school was only seven years ago, I guess...
...special appreciation. It ran together with a tribute to another notable who died just one day later: Barbaro. The horse got top billing. And does anyone remember when Mother Teresa died? The greatest saint of our time died on the frenzied eve of the funeral of the greatest diva of our time, Princess Di. In the popular mind, celebrity trumps virtue every time. And consider Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tormented in life by Stalin, his patron and jailer. Prokofiev had the extraordinary bad luck of dying on the same day as the great man, "ensconcing him forever in the tyrant...
...company farewelled outgoing general manager Joseph Volpe, and already some of their luster is rubbing off. But for someone who only seven years ago was helping put up the sets for Opera Australia's touring school production of The Magic Flute, she's far from a pouting diva. While "playing up and climbing the ladder," is all part of the opera business, she says, "I just try and stay out of it and have a laugh...
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER The knives are out at the palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...