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...unassuming-looking Sacramento St. house, where food is cooked and served, is a warm, quaint labyrinth of spacious rooms decorated with politically-charged posters and a hodgepodge of collected pop culture memorabilia. Generally, meals are eaten in a casual dinner table setting and are open to visitors. The offerings cater to Dudley’s primarily vegetarian and vegan population...

Author: By Jason D. Park, JASON D. PARK | Title: A Place to Break (Homemade) Bread | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

...bright rehearsal room somewhere in the backstage labyrinth of London's Royal National Theatre, more than 30 men and women - soaring sopranos, firm baritones - are singing what sounds like a solemn Mass - Bach, perhaps. Except the words don't fit. They abruptly launch into an eyebrow-raising staccato fugue - melodically intertwining the phrases "Chick with a dick," "My Mom used to be my Dad, snip, snip," and "I used to be a lap-dancing pre-operative transsexual" - and it becomes evident that possibly this is not Bach. Instead, it is British theater's most talked-about new project: Jerry Springer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera of the Absurd | 4/27/2003 | See Source »

...they say they support the idea, they add that they’re hesitant to give too much advice apart from the ground rules about environment. However, those seeking more wisdom from the Math Circle will have a new Kaplan tome to peruse in 2004, entitled Out of the Labyrinth: Mathematics Set Free...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kaplans Teach Students 'The Art of the Infinite' | 4/11/2003 | See Source »

...tracker helps troops navigate inner-city labyrinth. Iraq claims to be able to jam frequencies, but the U.S. says it can override...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Warriors | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Libeskind, who is best known for his haunting design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, should have known better. The Jewish Museum is composed of a labyrinth of angular corridors and startling voids—spaces at the heart of the building, visible but inaccessible to museum-goers. The effect is deeply unsettling. It speaks volumes about our inability to dwell in the wake of death without in some way internalizing its final nullity. This is not art struck dumb, but art realizing its limitations, its profound humanness. Sometimes what we cannot...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, | Title: Monumental Error | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

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