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...fame, Euripides is hard to pull off nowadays. Productions of Greek tragedies are almost always modernized to make them adhere to present-day aesthetics since audiences are not used to stylized choruses and lengthy speeches. The Athena Theater Company’s production of The Trojan Women, directed by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, was modernized, but perhaps not sufficiently so. Aside from occasional stirring moments, the play has the feel of a string of declamatory speeches...
...cartoonists, including Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Dan Clowes, Joe Sacco, Jason Lutes, Julie Doucet and tens of others. The best pieces match the cartoonist with the material. Carol Moiseiwitsch's splattery black and white imagery lends a horrifying intensity to "Fatal Fellatio." Peter Bagge, of "Hate" fame, punches up several tales, including one about a flipper fetishist, with his loopy graphics...
Cahill grew up in a part of Boston where politics "comes with your mother's milk," says Father Robert Drinan, the former Congressman of antiwar fame. He hired Cahill to answer phones in his office in 1976, when she graduated from Emmanuel College, a Catholic institution that was still all women at the time. The daughter of an Irish immigrant autoworker at General Motors' Framingham factory and a first-generation Irish-American homemaker, Cahill attributes her bossiness to being the eldest of six children (three boys, three girls) and says she honed her political reflexes at a dinner table...
...Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, a memoir by a luckless sea captain who was shipwrecked on the Saharan coast of Africa, where unspeakably horrible things happened to him. Dean King, the author of a biography of Patrick O'Brian (of Master and Commander fame), stumbled on a copy of Riley's memoir and decided to produce a thoroughly researched, authoritative account of Riley's disaster...
They are also cute, which can’t hurt their popularity. But with all the possibility that recent attention and a new major label release seem to offer, the Von Bondies don’t care what comes of their fame. “[It’s] not like we need to be headlining Lollapalooza next year,” Smith says. “We don’t have really big, crazy goals like that. I love what I do. I love being in this band and it’s an opportunity that...