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However, once Burke urged the women in the audience to “give it up” for Gere, HPT members threw exotic underwear onto the stage, and the star seemed to relax a little.

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh, What a 'Knight,' as Gere Nets Pudding Pot | 2/25/2006 | See Source »

Darweesh’s compositional genius became readily apparent as the quintet launched into its first set of songs. Whereas Western composers sometimes write Arabic instruments or themes into their scores to lend them exotic “flavor,” Darweesh’s use of Western musical...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sheikh Bridges Cultures Through Song | 2/20/2006 | See Source »

With a voice as pure as birdsong, she has soared to the top of the charts, becoming New Zealand's biggest-selling female artist. No, we're not talking about Hayley Westenra, the Wellington schoolgirl who took Amazing Grace to Enya-like heights, but the exotic musical hybrid that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Darker Wings of Song | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has spent her career becoming one of the leaders of the female tortured singer-songwriter genre, laying claim to the crown held previously by Aimee Mann and Liz Phair. If Marshall was the queen, “The Greatest” will be remembered as...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Greatest | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

By the time he arrived on the island, several accomplished foreign artists had already been there, drawn by the romantic lure of a tropical paradise free of the stresses and neuroses of what was coming to be known as "modern civilization." While other artists, including the German painter Walter Spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stranger in Paradise | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

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