Word: jazzing
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...audience a lap dance and then sang a protest song. The sparkler he put up his ass had, I think, something to do with America. I talked to Miss Dirty Martini after the show, and she told me that burlesque was an American folk art, the dance equivalent of jazz. There was something mesmerizing about the ability of these performers to transform the act of taking off their underwear into an event. It wasn’t just the shock of the nudity. I had assumed that hidden panels of Velcro would enable a dramatic baring of all available assets...
...just any Republican can play in California. President George W. Bush failed miserably there in 2000 and 2004; so did Bob Dole in 1996 and Bush's father in 1992. But they were mostly dealing from the old Republican deck, fashioned most recently by Bush strategist Karl Rove--jazz up the base, hammer the opposition...
...warn the characters of coming revolution, this production encourages the audience to interpret Julius Caesar as parallel to the tribulations of our own culture. The creativity and innovation of Nauzyciel’s production allows the audience to enter into the turbulent emotions and thoughts of the characters. A jazz trio stationed on the corner of the stage interprets the emotional state of the players throughout the performance, constantly pulling the audience in. The set itself allows the audience to become part of the production. The performance is set against a painted backdrop depicting a mirror image of the audience?...
...Making the situation worse is that the Hornets have never really fit in with a town that already lost one sad hoops franchise, the New Orleans Jazz, to Utah almost 30 years ago. The team slipped into New Orleans in 2002, when co-owners Shinn and Ray Wooldridge moved the team from Charlotte after years of fighting the city for a new arena (in early 2005, Shinn bought Wooldridge's stake in the franchise). The team struggled to draw fans in the Crescent City, and after just three seasons Katrina forced the Hornets to fly off to Oklahoma City...
...like to thank the Academy for courageously breaking the mold this time.' HERBIE HANCOCK, jazz musician, on being the first jazz artist in 43 years to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year...