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...Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of a chess game. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Through Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $12, $8 for seniors and students. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge...
...score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of Chess. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Through Saturday, April 12. 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, at 8 p.m. on Friday, and at 2 p.m. (April 5 only) and 8 p.m. on Saturday. Tix $12; $8 for seniors and students...
...holiday that celebrates survival, the hamantaschen appear too simple a sweet. The outside is not more exciting than shortbread, and the recipe calls for ingredients that can be found around the house: flour, eggs, sugar, baking soda and butter. But let nouveau cuisine invent zany combinations; tradition looms along Brookline’s Harvard Street, where the bakeries continue the age-old tradition of shaping Haman’s malice into scrumptious cookies...
...while some of the equipment and training required to correct these problems are contingent on improved cash flow, some of the solutions are nearly free. Levitin advises local governments to "share as much information with surrounding communities as possible." We don't need to re-invent the wheel in every town hall across the country, he says. Instead, the feds need to do a better job of disseminating their valuable information into the localities. That sort of intelligence sharing, of course, depends on cooperation and selflessness - two conditions even less likely these days than solvency...
...sampling technology and the Internet have allowed natural history museums to re-invent their relationship with the scientific community...