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Friday, Nov. 18Wu Man and Ensemble. Wu Man, a virtuoso pipe player, performs Chen Yi’s spellbinding opus “Ancient Dances” with his lute-like instrument accompanied by percussionists. Images of ancient Chinese calligraphy will be projected in the background, creating a multimedia event. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $38/28/23/20. (KAF)Scissorfight. Boston-based punk rockers Scissorfight, whose vocalist, Ironlung, once dislocated his shoulder in the middle of a show and spent the remainder of said show attempting to punch it back into place, team...
...help. Finding love, for example, can be difficult for observant Muslims scattered in U.S. cities; Islam forbids physical contact in dating or cruising for mates in nightclubs that serve alcohol. A breathless young man once phoned Magid in the middle of the night to ask if he could perform a marriage in a parking lot "right now" so the suitor and the woman in his car wouldn't feel guilty about what they wanted to do next. "I'm not a 7-Eleven," the imam barked into the phone. To help with romances, Magid and his wife run a matchmaking...
...Asian interests of an overstretched U.S., Schiffer offers a sobering response. "For the long term," he says, "the U.S. may have too much vision, and Japan too little, about an increased Japanese role in the alliance." Friends are nice. But if the U.S. is going to continue to perform its vital balancing act among the Asian powers-new and old-it is likely to have to do most of the work itself...
...been asked back to work. Purdy moved into the space on Arrow Street in 1990 and has since subdivided the property to include an art museum that features his own paintings as well as nude photography. Purdy began to offer massages in 1996 after an employee volunteered to perform the service. Before long, Purdy started intensively studying and training employees in massage techniques, and he eventually hired new employees specifically as masseuses. But two months ago, complaints against About Hair were filed with the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), according to CPD spokesman Frank Pasquarello. Pasquarello would not elaborate...
Unlike SJE, THUD is a student-directed musical troupe by led by co-directors Danielle R. Lehle ’07 and Sonali Palchaudhuri ’07. Palchaudhuri initiated the THUD performance in the same way, she said, that all THUD performances begin—by having the audience perform. Dividing up and assigning each audience section an instrument, Palchaudhuri led each one in playing various rhythms before having the whole audience synthesize their performances. With the audience’s rhythms in the background, the THUD performers filed onto stage, completing the interactive musical piece with their...