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...board, up to 40 guests are served ginger pork, chicken soup with coconut milk and other Laotian specialities by gracefully garbed staff. And in the evenings, villagers entertain passengers by dancing to age-old tunes that include royal ballet and interpretations of everyday rural life, folk tales and ancient legends...
...Klein actually gets it concerning Bob Dylan [May 11]. I have followed Dylan for more than 46 years, from his folk era to Blonde on Blonde, with its existential masterpiece "Visions of Johanna," and beyond. Albert Einstein said of Gandhi, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ... walked upon this earth." I feel the same can be said of Dylan. I know he bristles at such adoration, but if he were in my shoes, he'd understand the appreciation and love. With so much evil in the world, humanity needs poets like Dylan who challenge...
...story to tell," Rybak, 23, told reporters after setting an event record with 387 points, which put Norway well ahead of second-place finisher Iceland, which scored 218. In "Fairtyale," Rybak mixed stellar vocals with Scandinavian kitsch. He sang about his obsession with a lost love while a folk troop performed a centuries-old Norwegian mountain dance consisting of backflips and exaggerated push-ups. "In Russia, they like nostalgia and melancholy," he said, explaining why he thinks his wistful tune appealed to millions of voters in Russia and former Soviet states. That his folksy ditty channeled the sounds of Vladivostok...
...Cutting shuttle service.. fucking sucks.. They are cutting the night shuttle service by hours. This is both a huge annoyance for quad folk AND a safety risk, given the apparently large number of lecherous Harvard men who wait in the wings on weekend nights. This is probably a lot worse than the hot breakfast cuts, though I'm sure somebody will have some stupid snarky reply about how 'THE QUAD SUCKS BRO.. BUT YUM I LOVE PANCAKES...
...they decided to recast the age-old archetype on a modern stage like so many authors, playwrights, and bards before them. The fresh angle in Boyle’s case, though, is that this isn’t a puppet show Christmas special or a child’s folk tale—this is reality. As scripted and replete with emotional cues for obedient audience members as her journey has been, Boyle is still a real person with a real back-story. It’s this reality, lurking behind the crafting inherent in all “reality?...