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...suggest new exhibitions,” said Karen C. C. Dalton, assistant director of the Institute. Many in attendance expressed admiration for Gates’ leadership of the Institute. Rudenstine, who presented Gates with a first edition of Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk,” remarked that he “can’t say enough about Skip [Gates]” and praised Gates’ “amazing amount of energy and commitment and devotion.” David L. Dance ’74, director of programs...
...crowd a good time. Simon Ritt will perform at 9:10 p.m., The Fighting Cocks at 10:10, The Illegals at 11:10, and The Drags at 12:10 a.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place. $8. (KF)Friday, Nov. 25Buskin & Batteau and Family & Friends. One of folk music’s favorite acoustic duos brings you a family and friends Thanksgiving weekend reunion, including a rare solo acoustic appearance by Robin Lane, John Parker Compton and “Appaloosa,” David Batteau and “Batteaux,” “Rockabetty?...
...audio document of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s (née William Oldham) seasonal tour of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina. His detour in the South is reflected in the album’s sound: Oldham’s usual lo-fi folk aesthetic is dropped in favor of a Skynrydesque Southern-rawk. The album’s harder sound is also due to Matt Sweeney’s guitars: the last time Oldham and Sweeney collaborated, as the alt-country power-duo “Superwolf,” the results were...
...some 300 cities and towns throughout France and caused an estimated $235 million in damage. A poll in the newspaper Le Figaro published last week showed that 56% of the public supported Sarkozy's handling of the crisis. "Sarkozy's language is understood perfectly well by the modest folk of this country," says Nadine Morano, a member of Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement who grew up in the tough Cdre Bleu housing project of Nancy. "He's the only real alternative for changing this country, and even the left knows...
...Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey in 280 A.D., Nick was sainted for anonymous gift giving to needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which to build churches...