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...still call them jazz festivals. While Europe's love for improvised music remains strong, the festival business is getting tougher as competition stiffens, artists' fees rise, and government subsidies fade. Is this all too much of a good thing? Jan Ole Otnes, the director of Europe's oldest jazz fest - the Molde Jazz Festival, in Norway - thinks it is. Just 10 years ago there were only four summer jazz festivals in the country; now there are more than a dozen, and Otnes says "a lot of them have lost their special character." Not his, of course: from July...
...While changes at the MOCCA fest seem inevitable, I have faith that it will remain true to a fundamental principle of giving small comix press artists a space of their own. While it may suffer through some growing pains, having such a showcase in New York will bolster not just the medium but the city as well...
...Nicolas Cage plays a writer who is all too aware of this. In trying to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchard Thief into a screenplay, Cage desperately wishes to remain true to the original text rather than stuff the work into a typical Hollywood cliché-fest. When he meets a producer with other ideas, Cage complains that he doesn’t want to “cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcom[ing] obstacles to succeed...
...than students, according to Schorr, although she said some of them had called the OFA because they were confused between Arts First and the Square’s May Fair yesterday. The two festivals came within feet of each other outside Holyoke Center, where the Arts First Outdoor Band Fest played just yards away from vendors and purveyors of ethnic cuisine...
...plot is simple: a slave seeking his freedom helps his young master get the girl of his dreams. Then a courtesan house, a bloodthirsty tyrant, Rome’s version of Mr. Magoo and a slew of other characters get thrown into the mix, resulting in a laugh-fest with hints of vaudeville that would probably make Ovid roll in his grave. But modern-day audiences have adored it. Through Saturday, April 26, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8.pm. Tickets $5 are available through the Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. Cabot House Junior Common Room, 100 Walker...