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...bassist Phil Lesh and his post-Dead band land at the Orpheum to play songs from their 2002-released album, There and Back Again—an edgy hard-rock sound with jazzy snippets woven through the melody. Through November 25. 7:00 p.m. $39.50. Orpheum Theater, 1 Hamilton Pl...
...December 1980, a week before Christmas, Westport, Connecticut. Paul Newman, known to his friends as ol' PL or Calezzo de Wesso (Bonehead), had asked his buddy A.E. Hotchner (Hotch), sometimes called Sawtooth, to help him with a Christmas project that he was assembling in this basement, which wasn't a basement in the usual sense. There were crusty stones, a dirt floor, crumbling cement, and overhead timbers covered with active cobwebs. Also three long since vacated horse stalls, but the unmistakable aroma of horses remained. A very picturesque place in which to mix salad dressing...
...project was to mix up a batch of PL's salad dressing in the washtub and fill old wine bottles using the assembled funnels and corks and labels, and on Christmas Eve our collective families would go around the neighborhood singing carols and distributing these gift bottles of PL's dressing. PL was very proud of his salad dressing, and this was the apotheosis of his salad days. Over the years, even in four-star restaurants, PL had been rejecting the house dressings and concocting his own. Captains, maitre d's, and sometimes the restaurant owner would scurry around...
Country (and a little bit of every other genre) musician Lyle Lovett is known for his intelligent lyrics and innovative style. 7:30. Tickets $39-$66.50. Orpheum Theatre, One Hamilton Pl., Boston...
...Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from applying a state law requiring that crucifixes be hung in classrooms. (The verdict has since been skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden-Württemberg, but was rejected because she insisted on keeping her head veiled in the classroom. She sued the Stuttgart school authority, and after years of legal wrangling won her case in September, when the Constitutional Court ruled that Muslim teachers have the right to wear head...