Word: drabs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after the character from the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Damone is touring off its spring 2003 debut From the Attic, released on RCA. Opening for Damone will be The So and So’s, Stargazer Lily, The Knee-Hi’s, The Pinkslips and Drab. 18+. Tickets $8. 9 p.m. T. T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge...
...portrayed as masked, jabbering clowns, and every joke is greeted with gales of supportive laughter. And for a chewier take on the subject, there's David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre, where lobby vendors sell books by Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky along with olive-drab T shirts bearing the show's title. It's what the politicians might call twin-track theater - plays seeking to work as both entertainment and propaganda. But where Embedded is a sloppy, two-dimensional piece of agitprop, Hare's show is more diplomatic, and dramatizes the runup to war without turning...
...check out "The Queen's Working Wardrobe: Memories of Royal Occasions 1945-1972," which is on display at Kensington Palace in London through July, 2005. The exhibition features 12 couture outfits worn by Queen Elizabeth II and celebrates Her Majesty's diverse and sometimes quirky style, from the somewhat drab Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform she wore during World War II to the glamorous black velvet evening gown she wore to the opening of The Battle of the River Plate in 1956, where she met Marilyn Monroe. Also in the exhibition is the full-length black lace dress with matching veil...
...performing tigers on a Las Vegas stage last October, grieving fans held vigils outside the hospital where the critically injured showman was admitted, and placed mementos at the foot of a Siegfried & Roy statue on the city's Strip. Sixteen time zones away, in a drab industrial building at the far end of a Hong Kong subway line, the shock was felt just as much. Imagi, a fledgling animation company, was in the running to make Father of the Pride, a prime-time comedy cartoon about the private lives of Siegfried & Roy's feline co-stars. "I opened the newspaper...
...chilly spring day, Slavitt stands in front of the Star Market at Somerville’s Twin Cities Plaza, a slowly sinking strip mall. A closed Mars Music store sits entombed at one end of the lot, its windows revealing a dark and empty interior. Drab storefronts advertise a Fleet Bank, Dunkin’ Donuts and SuperCuts. Shoppers carry grocery bags to their cars...