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Under new campaign-finance rules, big donors can no longer spend lavish sums to entertain politicians at the parties' national conventions. But that won't stop the partying this year. House majority leader Tom DeLay has set up a tax-exempt charity called Celebrations for Children, which will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from top donors at the Republican Convention in New York City by offering them yacht cruises, tickets to Broadway shows and the chance to mingle with Republican lawmakers at parties. DeLay aides say all the net proceeds will go to programs for foster children, a cause...
...Hyperion Company, Harvard’s only student-run Shakespeare company, will help to kick off Arts First with a rollicking comedy. Calling it one of Shakespeare’s most intense (yet bawdy) and probing (yet hilarious) plays,” this one is sure to entertain. Free to all. Through May 8. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland...
...alternate tunings—and their absent human drummer. Barlow, the king of cool, brushed off these comments (and those about Mascis made during and after “The Freed Pig”) with a simple statement: “These are songs. They are written to entertain an audience. The people and situations are irrelevant. Take them and make them your own.” His forceful entreaty shut up the crowd and caused a moment of reflection about the sensitivity of the heart-on-sleeve singer-songwriter...
Former Soul Coughing frontman has long abandoned the days of semi-successful alt-rock Bon Bons, relying instead on a single acoustic guitar to entertain. His last work was last year’s Rockity Roll EP, and he’s currently preparing a full-length with a complete band and Semisonic’s Dan Wilson. Performance will likely include some of the new material and perhaps some classics from his former band’s glory days. Tickets $12. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...what charitable force is granting all these people second, third and fourth lives in the entertainment industry? The change, interestingly, may not lie with the stars themselves, but instead with the public they entertain. Audiences nowadays are more sophisticated than they were even a few years ago, and are better able to understand the fakery of what they see and hear on the radio and at the movies. Intentionally or not, Simpson, Moore, and others have proven exceedingly adept at using this understanding to reposition themselves back in the public spotlight...