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...Jewish roots. The fair is one of the region's oldest festivals, celebrating a spring livestock market dating back to 1847, and has evolved into a colorful megabash on the city's outskirts. The fun begins when, at the stroke of midnight, the fair's ceremonial gateway is lit up by thousands of lightbulbs. Lining about 15 streets are more than 1,000 casetas (brightly colored canvas tents), in which flamenco fanatics can dance, eat and drink the night away. Be sure to try pescaito (fried fish) and glasses of dry fino sherry, or the slightly lighter manzanilla. Some...
...emerged from the dugout to tell us that Derek Jeter can really hit and field. "After [the press conference] was over," Fleischer writes, "I joined the President in the residence and told him I thought he did great. He felt good too, as he reclined in his chair and lit a cigar...
Blur recognizes that the stylistic flow of ’90s rock is one that celebrates and explores the ironies of musical history—not surprising for a decade lit off by the perverse cheerleaders of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” The guitar-rock that Oasis so convincingly emulates frequently clung to a set of themes about pastoral English life, reflected in such songs as the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” or “Penny Lane,” and the Kink’s magnum opus...
...exhaustive—not simply extremist and sensationalist—and, as a result, she also captures the mundane. “Monica, 13, dances with her boyfriend Adam, 13, at a Bat Mitzvah party” recalls the tense atmosphere of a middle school dance. Monica, her face lit by multicolor stage lights, looks up and away, bored, while Adam, his hands around her waist, turns his face away from the camera...
Quad House email open lists lit up three days ago with the realization that Quadlings’ precious Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) was going under the knife until September. The long-planned renovations, which will convert some exercise space and a basketball court into a new dance studio, stem from student demand for dance practice space as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study reabsorbs the Rieman Center—the current home of Harvard dancers. Viewed narrowly, the renovations are a victory for dancers and a loss for exercise-hungry Quadlings. Broadly, however, the QRAC’s impending...