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...Yoga was little known in the U.S.?perhaps only as an enthusiasm of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat Generation?when the Beatles and Mia Farrow journeyed to India to sit at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president...
Little girls used to dress up like soccer star Mia Hamm. But they have a new athlete role model. She's Jen Adams, star of the University of Maryland's women's lacrosse team, which is favored to win its seventh straight NCAA championship on May 20. Adams is spearheading the fast-rising popularity of lacrosse, especially among girls and young women. Since 1995, more than 40 new varsity women's programs have been established at U.S. colleges and universities. The sport is growing in high schools as well: more than two-thirds of the nation's several hundred thousand...
...legit stage as the endlessly recycled standards of Gershwin, Porter and Kern. In addition to Nyro and Joplin, Jim Morrison and his life and music were the subject of another recent off-Broadway show. The '70s hits of the Swedish rock band Abba make up the score for Mamma Mia!--a hit in London that's due on Broadway this fall. A new Beatles musical, All You Need Is Love, is about to open in London, and a show with music by the '70s band Queen is in the works. Fittingly, New York City's critically acclaimed Encores! series, which...
...increase the box office too. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, of Abba, had a Broadway failure despite their great score for the rock musical Chess in the mid-'80s. But Mamma Mia!--essentially a greatest-hits album adorning a fluffy story about a girl searching for her real dad--has been breaking attendance records in London, Toronto and Los Angeles. Which means that more than just Abba fans are singing along with Dancing Queen...
...distances to Tucson, Ariz.; Leipzig, Germany; and Bloomington. The 14 concerts of medieval, Renaissance, baroque and classical music include works performed by adults on period instruments as well as a recital by elementary school students making a "joyful noyse" on recorders. Such whimsy has made a convert of Mia Dalglish, 16, a student at Bloomington High School South. "Early music can be stiff and boring--or the most beautiful music in the world," she says. The festival keeps prices down so that folks can enjoy baroque without going broke. An all-inclusive ticket to the festival, which runs...