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...Earlier this summer, Shido performed a sold-out, monthlong Kabuki run at the Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon in the heart of Tokyo's youthful Shibuya district. The series, conceived and headlined by older-generation star Kankuro Nakamura, offered audiences a flashier, faster version of the arcane art form?including a grand finale in which a police car bursts onstage through the back door. "I want people who have never seen Kabuki before to come to Cocoon," Shido says. "My hope is that they'll go because of me, and leave with a real interest in Kabuki." He'd no doubt...
...recent monthlong visit to New York City, Ali Dickson drove from L.A. because the airlines deemed it too cold to allow her German shepherd, Summer, to fly in the cargo bay. She stayed nearly exclusively at Loews hotels, which offer doggie room service, Loews Loves Pets bowls and mats, and a dog passport to document her travels. The valets in Nashville, Tenn., had bones for Summer, and they let her owner know whether other dogs had checked into the hotel and what floor they were on. "She loved the hotel. When she got in the room, she would gallop around...
...minister, Ahmad Mohamed Khalif, was killed along with two pilots when their aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. Three other ministers were injured. Caracas One person was killed and at least 12 wounded after a suspected bomb exploded near a pro-government rally in the Venezuelan capital. Patna A deadly monthlong cold spell led the Indian state of Bihar to declare a disaster. Some of the lowest temperatures in three decades have killed more than 1,800 people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Kabul After a 10-year ban Afghan women regained the right to drive. Thirty female officials passed...
Normally, this might be of only local interest. But this year the Senate is so closely divided that the Louisiana vote might determine which party controls the chamber. Not everyone dreads the prospect of a monthlong political Mardi Gras of party operatives and national reporters traipsing through the state. "With the outcome of the Senate at stake, a December runoff in Louisiana would be the next best thing to the Saints' being in the Super Bowl," exults Republican Congressman Billy Tauzin. (And more likely, given the Saints' NFL history.) "There would be money and madness everywhere." --By Karen Tumulty
...better believe it. Thirty-one years after America's first lady of victimhood popped her last pill, the publication of Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Random House; 510 pages; $29.95) is being greeted by enough hoopla to elect a Senator, including a monthlong Turner Classic Movies marathon and the reissue on 24-karat-gold audiophile CDs of Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which is to the Cult of Dorothy what Are You Experienced? is to air guitarists...