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...quality bands from New Zealand's South Island will make it big over here. That band will not be the Verlaines (it'll probably be the Bats); despite being one of the first NZ bands to sign to an American major label, the Verlaines are too smart, and too precious, ever to find mass success...
...ticket prices are preposterously high -- $100 for a seat up front -- and the evening is worth every precious penny. Say, if you will, that it's five $20 shows in one, and count the ways. Bette the incendiary torch singer, in fine voice at 47; her '70s classic Stay with Me is still a rhythm-and-blues catharsis. Bette the jaunty favorite of the dear departed bathhouse set, making Long Island jokes ("Hell's little theme park") and addressing her earlier fans: "I see we have our quorum of leather queens here tonight." Bette the Broadway star, fronting campy production...
...appears that many citizens will be forced to give up the precious right of choosing their doctors, or at least pay more for that privilege...
...campus forum for discussion of the cereal-as-meal issue. Frankly, cereal is low-fat, involves no dead or mistreated animals (I think, since I'm not quite sure what's in those magic marshmallows), tastes reasonably good (or at least really, really sweet) and allows one to relive precious childhood memories. And you get that fiber the college student on the go needs to have in her diet...
Rakebrand's murder seemed to repudiate Miami's efforts over the past six months to protect its most precious industry, tourism, which last year pumped $7.3 billion into the local economy. The highly publicized death of another German tourist last April, who was run over in front of her mother and two children in a similar hit-and-rob attack, led the city to install new streetlights, post road signs to help visitors avoid unsafe areas and set up a task force that does everything from providing escorts for lost tourists to patrolling under cover to catch would-be thieves...