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...African-inspired tunes to the stage. This six-member band hailing from Pittsburgh released their latest album Welcome to My Party in 2002. The band has gained a grassroots following for their unique percussion-driven music. Saturday, April 5, at 8 p.m. The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, NH. Tickets, $24.50. For more information, call...
...wing or sleep could be fatal. Charles Lindbergh had flown the Spirit of St. Louis from California to New York, so he was used to the air-cooled Whirlwind engine, a splendid name for something attached to little more than a flying gasoline can. But the Atlantic was ocean, with no chance of a soft landing for 4,000 miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated by his shyness. It burnished her image of his landing...
...favorite Hong Kong graffiti artist. Hanging in his tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from discarded spectacles, each pair of which Swaffield first tried on to check the refractive qualities. ("I got conjunctivitis making it," he says.) Another work, called Solewave?a collage of 350 ocean-bleached flip-flops plucked from various Sri Lankan beaches?recalls the swirling intensity of a Van Gogh...
...first week in California, my wife Meredith and I went to dinner in Santa Monica. It was a moonlit night. Afterward, we walked out along the beach, and Meredith kicked off her shoes. Wading in the Pacific Ocean was so alien to our environment when we were growing up in South Dakota. I vividly remember looking at her--this beautiful young woman walking in the surf--and thinking, "This is really something special. Our lives have changed, and they will never be the same." And they certainly never have been. --As told to Laura Koss-Feder
...call shuttle travel impractical because of its cost and risk to life misses the point. Certainly, manned space flight is impractical. It was dangerous to first venture out at night. It was risky to climb the first mountain. It seemed impossible to sail across the ocean. We do these things not for practicality but for dreams. JEFF HEWITT Norfolk...