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Catholic countries the world over are celebrating carnival this month to store up the fun before Lent settles in. But in Sydney, the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is simply an excuse for the fun-loving city to throw a big bash. During the three-week-long festival more than 500,000 visitors and residents take part in one of the world's largest celebrations of queer culture, featuring drag-queen shows, coming-out theater, erotic poetry, porn readings, art exhibits, glamorous parties and lesbian rangers paroling the city's parks...
...says upon returning from a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, she sat looking at all the Bacchus-labeled paraphernalia before her and came up with the name. (The “King” part was later added at the insistence of her mother who wanted to keep the tradition of having names beginning with “K” in the family...
...Connick Jr. does schmaltzy standards like no other. While his jazzy stylings may not be suited for Broadway (“Thou Shalt Not,” his collaborative effort with Tony-award winning director Susan Stroman, is currently being pummeled by the critics), his heritage infuses a lively Mardi Gras flavor to his newest two albums. The first of these simultaneously released albums is Songs I Heard, a heartfelt celebration of the movies that influenced him as a child. Whether simply singing or playing solo on the piano, he innovatively covers childhood favorites from The Sound of Music, Mary...
...While “Foforo Fo Firi” is reminiscent of the best Afro-Cuban tunes, “Brother Running/Brother Gettin’ Caught” speaks the language of the post-Marsalis jazz combo. “New Second Line” captures the joy of Mardi Gras, with all the swagger and raucousness of a Fat Tuesday parade. The sweet simple statement of Tom Jobim’s bossa “Corcovado” is a welcome cool-down midway through an otherwise frolicking album...
...exploring questions of sociology and communication than it does when it dares to think outside generally contemplated field areas and arrives at compelling conclusions. The protagonist’s lecture about the flashing-for-beads “microeconomy” that arises in New Orleans during Mardi Gras is one of the more skewed examples, and his disquisition on the shape of the universe provides a surprising amount of interesting information to those of us who have never taken an astronomy course. And he gives what could have become a tired “is my waking...