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...mythical creature was under way. Using a wooden food-service table as his canvas, lead singer Brandon Boyd has laid down a medieval unicorn with wings in thick black marker. Einziger draws something destined for a rainbow-colored sticker. The would-be groupies wait for their turns with the pen and ask for hugs and autographs when they work up the nerve, but mostly they are silent, staggered by the discovery that the rock gods of Incubus are actually more like fourth-grade girls. Nursing a beer as he watches unicorns spread over the table, Einziger smiles and says...
...those churning out heartfelt sonnets and odes to environmentalism are just as likely to be thoughtful elementary school students as moody teens. Opportunities for kids to develop their writing skills are popping up everywhere, from local after-school programs to Internet sites. And kids, in droves, are taking up pen (and mouse) to pound out essays, poems and stories in record numbers...
...American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) was merely playing host, but the well dressed, older crowd was able to chat with familiar faces from the A.R.T., including Resident Dramaturg Gideon Lester and company members Karen MacDonald and Will LeBow, who were performing in the benefit. Volunteers from PEN New England, largely young writers, were eager to press wine into the hands of those who came early for food and social hour. Rialto Restaurant of the Charles Hotel provided dessert fare, and the brownies, delicious confections which dissolved in the mouth like so much nutty, brown sugary goo, must have given the older...
...Miller, author of such novels as Inventing the Abbotts, introduced the readings in her capacity as chair of PEN New England. Recasting the importance of the event in light of recent events, she called the arts “consoling and enlarging and just what we need in these complicated times...
...benefit was a worthy tribute to PEN New England and a fine demonstration of the opportunities available for events as close as at the A.R.T, a major center of theater talent located just down the street from the Yard. It deserves a student audience. Those who made it to the benefit were already aware of the valuable resource and were rewarded with a unique moment in time—a reading of brand new literature by three talented actors who may never share a stage again...