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...think we really just tried to tell a story,” says Robert Woodruff, director of Highway Ulysses, the new play which premiered last weekend at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theatre (ART). Indeed, the musical tells one of the greatest stories literature has to offer, that of The Odyssey...
...HIGHWAY ULYSSES. Written by Rinde Eckert specifically for the performance at the American Repertory Theatre (ART), this play combines the talents of the ART Acting Company and the Cambridge-based band Empty House Cooperative to reinvent Homer’s Odyssey in the musical world of jazz, rock and blues. Here, Ulysses is a war-veteran-turned-hermit who embarks on a journey upon receiving an urgent message from his estranged son. Saturday, March 1, through Saturday, March 22. Tickets $34-$68. American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
...manages a Dallas bar: "I have peace of mind knowing if I was in an accident, I'd have a better chance of walking away. Everyone in my family feels that way. We all drive one." It's hard not to see such attitudes as evidence that a highway arms race has begun. Asks Gregg Easterbrook in a recent New Republic piece on SUVs: "Can it be a coincidence that road rage started to become a national concern in the mid-1990s, just as these pharaonic contraptions began flooding the roads?" (Perhaps he's right, but Easterbrook hurts his argument...
...with 300,000 Beds"; in Memphis, Tenn. Irate at shoddy accommodations during a family vacation, Wilson built the first Holiday Inn in Memphis in 1952 with the goal of offering customers something novel: comfortable, child-friendly, inexpensive lodging. Fueled by a growth in American families traveling the new interstate highway system, the chain expanded from 100 in 1959 to 1,700 in 1975. There are now some 3,000 motels worldwide bearing the Holiday Inn name...