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...Today, it was the Krupa-Pilzer Quintet. Last week, it was Dixie Power Trio. All summer, it’s been jazz in the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art. Every Friday from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the museum brings in talented jazz musicians to play for picnicking interns and locals after a long week of interning or being local. They come out in droves because it’s great music—and they come out in droves because it’s all free...
...first of all, in the open air of the National Mall, “America’s front yard,” where any passerby could stop and listen. Then, it took place among art of a different kind—the modern visual pieces in the Sculpture Garden. As my ears learned new ways of making a piano and a trombone combine, my eyes tried to dissect what looked like a giant pulley—Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, I later learned...
Marlon Brando's in the back seat of a taxi with Rod Steiger. One man is a dockworker and former prize fighter, the other his older brother Charley. "Remember that night in the Garden?" Brando says. "You came down to my dressing room and you said, 'Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson.' You remember that? 'This ain't your night'! My night!? I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville...
...trade legislation facing uncertain futures, the White House may need a win on one big issue by December. "What's [the media] going to say about Obama's first year?" says another top regulatory official. "If I were the Administration, I'd want to get to the Rose Garden with something, something that looks significant." (See the top 10 key players in health-care reform...
...well as Virginia's) off-year gubernatorial elections closely for signs of national trends. In 1993, for example, Democrats lost both states; the next year, Republicans took control of Congress. "Pundits outside the state will see this election as a referendum on the President regardless of what Garden State voters actually think," says pollster Murray. "And perception is reality in this case. The President's people understand that." Which is why, despite the fact that Corzine was one of Hillary Clinton's strongest supporters in the primaries, Obama last week went to Holmdel, N.J., for a Corzine fundraiser, helping...