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...Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood. I am not myself a religious believer. That said, however, I think parents who do believe have an absolute right to introduce their children to whatever religion they follow - but gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world...
...Baker spent five sleepless weeks conceptualizing the concert. He says he cannot control what ring tones people have, or whether all audience members will follow the lighting cues, but he can create spatial relationships by having individual sections respond to different lighting cues. "The premise is chaos versus order," says Baker...
...minute tutorial will instruct audience members to follow the red-light and green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...
...Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic rant and Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock’s four wedding ceremonies, Hollywood was certainly working the headlines this summer. But in case you didn’t have the time or just simply didn’t care to follow the latest round of celebrity escapades, we’ve put together a Spark’s Notes version of Summer Celeb Gossip. Without a doubt, this summer’s biggest “news” was the appearance of Suri Cruise in the October issue of Vanity Fair...
...somewhat when it comes to names. Foreign ones are still out, but in recent years a number of previously banned Persians names have been restored to the official list. Every few years there's a sudden profusion of now antique-sounding names like Aryo and Armiti, as eager parents follow the de-banning closely. After all, what's cooler than a formerly banned name? I don't know yet if the name I've picked is banned or not. There's reason to suggest it is, but similar names are now common and so maybe it will be okay...