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...prefix to cake takes some nerve, and that probably explains why the Cheese Room is the only one of its kind in Asia. It is run as an annex to a buzzing brasserie, the Press Room (so named because it occupies part of the site that housed a now-defunct Chinese newspaper). With its neighbor M1NT, a private members' club, the Press Room has formed a promising enclave of gentrification in a hitherto overlooked part of Central district, luring happy-hour drinkers in their suited scores. The sociable manager, Matthew Siegel, beckons me from a packed bar out onto...
Some WHRB DJs got more than strikes when they went bowling last Thursday. Jeff Mangum—the lead singer of now-defunct indie pop legends Neutral Milk Hotel—decided to break his five-year hiatus from performing in public to whip out his guitar for the awestruck WHRBies, transporting them out of the neon glare of Lanes and Games into Holland, 1945…A certain Fly member decided to take his post-spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead...
...unfair business,” he said. “Minorities inevitably will not have equal opportunities in casting because most plays are written for a white, realist audience.” Petrosino also cited the alienation of common casting and the niche groups of BlackCAST and the now-defunct AAA Players as reasons for lack of minority involvement in mainstream theater. Eight years later, it remains to be seen whether the problem has been fixed, or if there even ever was a problem. Recently, KeyChange established itself as the first co-ed a cappella group to have an active...
...curators seem to have recognized the yawn-factor inherent in displaying 120 educational panels from a now-defunct museum—established by Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals from 1886-1913—that was once the cornerstone of the now-defunct Department of Social Ethics...
...efficient process, but the death penalty is back in vogue in Iraq. After the U.S. invasion, capital punishment was suspended by L. Paul Bremer, head of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, but interim Prime Minster Iyad Allawi reinstated it a year later. Since September 2005, when three men were hanged in the southwestern city of Kut after being convicted of running a murder-and-kidnapping ring, the Iraqi government has executed 50 prisoners convicted of murder or kidnapping, says spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says the government plans to execute...