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Last week's story of a troupe of young Palestinian musicians from Jenin serenading a group of elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors near Tel Aviv seemed like an improbable ray of hope on a darkening political landscape. Instead, the music has died in Jenin, and the episode has turned into another of those daily tragedies that demonstrate the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians...
...busy Saturday evening dinner service became a very busy Saturday evening dinner service, I watched as a fellow waiter burst suddenly into tears.The restaurant’s background music had just transitioned from a soulful Diana Ross ballad to Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” and I couldn’t decide whether “men are dogs,” “insufficient tip,” or “another waiter’s gibes” was a likelier explanation for her sorrow. “My mother...
...right? Don’t worry if the wordplay is still taking a while to sink in, because Britney’s raunchy tutorial accommodates all tastes and learning styles: one pelvic thrust per beat in the chorus, repeated twice with Chippendale wannabes or curvy cheerleaders. Now the music mellows out in a haze of white and you think, “Oh God, she’s getting married again?” But no, it’s just Britney the Stepford Wife, apple pie in hand, stepping out with her J.Crew catalogue cut-out husband and walking...
...canvasses, easels, stools, and drop cloths, Nancy Mitchnick—one of the only two studio painting teachers in the VES department—presides over her class on the third floor of the Carpenter Center. Pungent smells of fresh gesso mingle with turpentine while an eclectic mix of music sets the creative mood. With a couch and a makeshift kitchen, it is clear that many student painters view the studio as a sort of second home and Nancy, as she is fondly called, as a sort of stand-in mother. “Students congregate and sometimes practically move...
...third album, would certainly not suggest so. On her orders, the band has dispensed with the frenetic guitar work that defined its first two LPs. Instead, Zinner, one of the most inventive guitarists of this decade, is reduced to playing mostly synthesizers in an attempt to create the dance music that O has demanded.Although it may seem surprising, “It’s Blitz!” is a brave and thrilling statement from a band that seems determined to push forward. It harks back in many ways to 80s bands like New Order and The Cure...