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...biggest games, though, are still AIDS fundraisers. Once a month, people pack the 800-seat Durham Armory in North Carolina for family-friendly, alcohol-free drag bingo nights led by BVD (bingo-verifying diva) Mary K. Mart. The crowd is about half gay and half straight, and on a typical night, $10,000 is raised for the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina. In 2002, when the Alliance ran its first game, "we thought that if we got a hundred people and a thousand dollars, it would be a miracle," says John Paul Womble, director of development. The event sold...
...everyday clothes, with a long, tiered skirt adding a hint of drama to her appearance. But the true drama is in her face, in the mobile features that light up as she discusses her greatest passion—acting. “I’m a big diva,” she proclaims, and turns to her friend and co-worker, Kara E. Kaufman ’08 for affirmation. Kaufman’s amused smile reveals the exaggeration.Still, Birnbaum certainly has the credentials of a prima donna. As a prefrosh, she was accepted into the Freshman Arts Program...
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...