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Forget about Fred Thompson's pedestrian hearings. The real fireworks will start Tuesday, when the Senate Finance Committee turns its attention to the IRS. The probable highlight of this week: Cloaked in black hoods (no, really), IRS agents are expected to testify that the agency routinely abuses and mistreats taxpayers. Nearly 42 percent of the $13.2 billion in penalties that the IRS assessed against taxpayers last year was wiped off the books after corporations and individuals challenged the levies as excessive or unnecessary, leaving the revenue boys with some explaining...
...highlight of the ART's "Shlemiel the First" is truthfully the pit orchestra that will not stay put, The Klezmer Conservatory Band. This eight-piece ensemble grounds an over-the-top and shaky production on a solid yet raucous foundation. Providing more than enough energy to keep the musical moving while simultaneously sparking the audience into fervent rhythmic clapping, the Conservatory Band is the only element in the production which is successfully (and brilliantly) larger-than-life. Even taking time to march around and across the stage, the virtuosos never come off as contrived or absurd; they are the pulsing...
...with their work when it uses but one feature, repulsiveness? Why, hand it over to Spike and Mike, of course. Unfortunately, a lot of this year's new batch takes the Sick and Twisted spirit of openness-which embraces the offbeat or dark humor that's the real highlight to each festival-and misses the point...
Fans of Comedy Central can delight in yet another unfortunate death for parkaboy Kenny in "The Spirit of Christmas," surely the highlight of the festival and somewhat of a heavyweight amongst its cruder cousins...
...thought it was important to symbolize that this building would be open to students in a way it hadn't been," Martin said in a recent interview, calling the ceremony "the highlight of the whole summer...