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...teacher. I remember being pleased to read of Maleska's accession, for I knew his name as a Dell puzzle constructor. But Maleska was a conservative chap, a one-man Academie Francaise of English. He seemed to believe that the language had frozen decades before. Cultural references tended toward opera trivia and the novels of long-dead white males...
...restaurant, but there is a ground-floor café serving breakfast and a complimentary all-day snack buffet of sandwiches, soup, and so on. You'll be refueling there frequently if you're going to attempt all the sightseeing possibilities of the neighborhood, which include La Boqueria market, the Opera El Liceo, the Plaza Catalunya and lots of shopping. Of course, if all that walking wears out your soles, you couldn't ask for a better location. The hotel is next door to (what else?) a Camper boutique...
...onset of a full moon-in Fijian, a vula. For presenting Pacific life on stage, there would seem to be no better guide: in the islands, time doesn't run to a clock, but rather follows the lunar pull of the tides. And in Vula, at the Sydney Opera House until June 25, the moon watches over the gentle unfolding of life, from kava ceremony to funeral song. In many Pacific cultures, the moon is also seen as a female deity, and in Vula womanhood is worshiped just as fully, from the languorous flick of a maiden's hair...
...their own material: "There are only a number of brown parts on a TV series. So it's about making your own market." The Conch's first theatrical offering is a case in point. Born in a tiny 100-seat theater in Wellington, Vula now comfortably fills the Sydney Opera House's Playhouse space. Its success has been buoyed by a growing international demand for Pacific stories, with playwright Toa Fraser's film version of the Fijian family epic, No. 2, recently taking out the audience prize at Sundance. And when Nawalowalo takes Vula home to Fiji for the first...
...York City, Diane visited Hungary several times to do research and wanted to share the experience with her mother. So she surprised her mom Carol Hornbuckle with a trip to Budapest as a 70th-birthday present. Diane found them a pretty four-star hotel, the K+K Opera in Budapest, introduced her mother to her Hungarian friends and took her to places of historic interest like Esztergom Cathedral on the Danube and the Museum of Ethnography. At the museum, Carol spent hours entranced by the 19th century embroidered clothes and hand-painted furniture like her grandparents'. The trip not only...