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...also ensured that the arena's not the only attraction. Restaurants, bars and an 11-screen cinema are aligned around a faux street scene that nearly rings the arena. A smaller, 2,500-seat club, Indigo, hosts less mainstream acts, such as funkster George Clinton and jazz great Al Jarreau. Prince also played at many of his aftershow parties into the wee hours. Its exhibition space opens next month, kicking off with a nine-month run of a King Tut exhibit expected to draw up to 2 million visitors. Also in the works: a British music hall of fame, another...
...professional dance, but it fell right in line with Porter’s sense of humor. Sally Sommer from The Village Voice once called her “that rare breed—nimble witty comedian.” “I always thought she could become a mainstream comedian. She’s that funny,” says Bergmann. “I never knew why she didn’t end up on ‘Seinfeld’ or something.” Porter’s Portables have taken her around the world...
...Indeed, if any popular figure (fictional or not) has the power to lend a new level of legitimacy to homosexuality in mainstream culture, it is Dumbledore. The sheer amount of thought and discussion that his sexuality is causing, and will continue to cause, is bringing us closer towards understanding homosexuality as a visible part of the human experience, rather than murky taboo or narrow stereotype...
Indeed, this danger makes the logic of hyper-assimilationist Asian Americans very fatally flawed. For them, and for me, mainstream American values become a baseline assumption, instituted and enforced by pressures of environment. An understanding of prior values and circumstances is rarely given extensive thought...
...Kamenetz: The dreams of Jacob or Joseph in the Bible are unmediated religious experience, and both Judaism and Christianity preserved mystical dream traditions. But direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled...