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...brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 miles away in St Andrews, poet and musician Don Paterson is striving for the same down-to-earth honesty in his fifth volume of poetry, “Rain.” In this new collection, Paterson amasses popular images of sentimentality and reimagines them amid the hectic cacophony...
What: The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the long-awaited production of the riotous, rollicking Pirates of Penzance, which follows a young pirate apprentice Frederic who has long dreamt of the day that he'll be free from his duty to his master, the Pirate King, so he can find a beautiful maiden and spend his day ridding the world of piracy. But will this happen for our pirate protagonist? Hilarity ensues in this comical battle of wits...
...Even royalty has had to bow to Mother Nature. Several monarchs have been delayed in their efforts to attend a celebration of the 70th birthday of Denmark's Queen Margrethe. Despite RSVPing for the festivities, which began Thursday night, Norway's King Harald, Spain's King Juan Carlos and Sweden's King Carl Gustav have yet to appear in Copenhagen. Elsewhere, Norway's Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who had been attending President Obama's nuclear summit, is stuck in New York. According to his press secretary, the Premier is "running the Norwegian government from the United States...
...beer-drinking Slow Foodie feel like a kid in Hidden Sweets. Boston brewery Harpoon figures prominently in the draught and bottle departments (if you’re a fan of Blue Moon, try a glass of the Harpoon Belgian Pale Ale, $6), as does Pennsylvania brewery Victory, whose Storm King Imperial Stout at 9.1% ABV is a dark, delicious, and, let’s face it, dangerous road home. As it stands, the bar’s offerings of affordable wine by the glass are fairly limited, but this is bound to change once their “on tap?...
...language of the exiled Dalai Lama, a bête noire of the Chinese government. Dominating a large square in Yushu was a spectacular statue not of some cultural hero from the broad river plains, crowded cities or farmlands further east but of the great Gesar, a legendary king of the pastoral peoples of Tibet and Mongolia. No one knows if it survived the quake...