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...nine Tonys and ran for a (then, but no longer) mind-boggling 15 years. Its celebration of old-fashioned Broadway pizzazz combined with an astringent, character-driven intimacy - about the struggles, both professional and personal, of a band of aspiring Broadway hoofers auditioning for a new show - was something fresh in musicals. But a lot has changed since those pre-AIDS, pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber days. For one thing, the self-referential, show-about-a-show device has become the easiest and most insular of Broadway crutches (see The Drowsy Chaperone or Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me). As good...
...being there for tragedies like Hurricane Katrina, which claimed the rapper’s Louisiana home, leaving him nothing but “a darn country song” in return.Then, Andre 3000 outlines the pattern of Hollywood’s betrayals, detailing how “all the fresh styles always start off as a fresh little hood thing,” and by the time each trend “reaches Hollywood it’s over.”Taking aim at the white media is hardly a new theme for hip-hop; countless records (rightly) decry...
...sepia-tinted looks back on the class of 1940. There may be an overlap in our audience, but not in our content.” According to Daniel M. Loss ’00, the co-founder of 02138, this focus on profiling alums with fresh and contemporary achievements made compiling “The Harvard 100” difficult. “It was impossible to be completely objective...we recognized that this is a list that people would argue about.” And it shouldn’t be a surprise if 02138 wants to be contentious...
...river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur’s 7.4 million people displaced and an estimated 200,000 killed by the conflict since it began in 2003, aid agencies continue to report new bloodshed. Gopvernment-armed Arab Janjaweed militias are launching a fresh assault in Southern Darfur, while opposing Darfuri rebel groups are said to be re-arming in neighboring Chad. If fighting continues, already malnourished farmers won’t be able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month-old peace accord will lie in tatters...
...finger-hungry graters. Standing on four short legs, Giltsharp's Cheese Bug is one insect you'll welcome into your kitchen. Drag a block of cheese along the freestanding Bug's concave face plate and the gratings accumulate in an egg-shaped receptacle underneath. giltsharp.com Strip Show Love fresh corn, but hate having a butter-covered face and a smile full of niblets? Kuhn Rikon's Corn Zipper, which resembles a happy metallic stingray, allows you to strip kernels from raw or cooked ears without chopping off a finger. Holding the gadget in one hand, simply rub it down...