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...Firmage's website came to light last November, his days at USWeb were numbered. He jumped ship--he denies reports that he was pushed--in a matter of weeks. "There are two camps [at USWeb]," he laughs. "One says there's plausibility here. The other says, 'He's a nut...
...member of the innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre, and Bill Wade, director of YARD (Youth at Risk Dancing), a company of teenagers drawn from the student body of the Cleveland School of the Arts. It's hardly the first time The Nutcracker has been updated: Mark Morris' raucous The Hard Nut is set in postmodern suburbia, while Donald Byrd's Harlem Nutcracker uses Duke Ellington's swinging adaptation of Tchaikovsky's score. But An Urban Nutcracker has a special ring of authenticity: the libretto has been completely rewritten to reflect the everyday lives of the students, and the choreography, based...
...Jean does not accept the council's $25,000 offer, the council's next choices in order are Third Eye Blind, Violent Femmes, Rusted Root, Squirrel Nut Zippers and Springfest veteran De La Soul...
...council is willing to bid $25,000 for Third Eye Blind, Violent Femmes and Rusted Root, $20,000 for Squirrel Nut Zippers and $10,000 for De La Soul...
Closing out our portfolio of publishers: health nut Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), who used his first magazine, Physical Culture, as a vehicle for promulgating his views on carrot eating, cold-water bathing and frequent, vigorous sex. (He was for all three.) Largely for his fulminations on the last, his racy tabloid, the New York Evening Graphic, which specialized in covering violence and sex, became known as the "PornoGraphic." His legacy is with us even now: it was Macfadden who invented the "composograph" or composite photo, in which the heads of real people in the news are superimposed on the bodies...