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...Kasey Chambers' American debut The Captain is grounded in the 24-year-old Australian native's experiences as a desert nomad wandering through the desolate, inhospitable Nullarbor Plain of south-central Australia. First released down under in 1999, The Captain is a collection of intense, complex and stirring songs filled with warm, personal tales of the artist's attempts to understand life's unresolved tensions. Kasey Chambers' ballad-driven album challenges modern country music with a potent mix of acoustic and electric guitars, fiddle passages and hard-driven roots-rock percussion...
...Here, gleaned from the headlines, are a few of the most controversial - or just plain fascinating - ballot measures across the country...
...opening number, "Sang-Froid," featured dancers in plain black pants and t-shirts and the music of Frederic Chopin. The moves seemed so natural, seemed to fit the music so well, that I wondered why I hadn't seen those exact moves in my mind every time I heard that music before. Sometimes the movements appeared amateur, like someone thrashing around in his room with windows and doors shut against prying eyes. But there is no denying their skill, as they leapt and spun across the stage. The choreography was a study in patterns, almost mathematical in its precision. Morris...
...mode of a man who has buried good friends - Gianni Versace, Princess Diana - and lost others to AIDS. The Elton John who wrote "Daniel," with its baffled yearning, is the one who loves the blue-tinted male nudes of John Dugdale, with their Victorian grief. The somber undercurrent is plain even in Andres Serrano's vivid crimson circle in a rectangle of bright yellow, which on closer inspection turns out to be a pool of blood...
...vulnerability in her personality. Hermione is me, near enough. A caricature of me when I was younger. I wasn't that clever. But I was that annoying on occasion. Girls are very tolerant of her because she is not an uncommon female type--the little girl who feels plain and hugely compensates by working very hard and wanting to get everything just...