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...ritual and dragged Feingold up onto a Forest Hills roof at night so that he could recite in secret. But the then-apprentice has no regrets. He remains awed that "a man could walk up to another man and say, 'I need a thousand dollars to pay my rent,' and the brother would give him a check and say, 'Give it back when you have it.'" He still believes in the group's pledge to "take good men and make them better." He eventually joined the Shriners, the fez-headed Masonic subgroup with a philanthropic specialty and more recently undertook...
...lacks the equipment to effectively display their luminous energy. The show-stopping vocal acrobatics of 'da Singer (Vickilyn Reynolds) are certainly loud, but the Shubert's poorly-tuned sound system prevent most of the audience from distinguishing what exactly the lyrics to her songs are. In addition, as any Rent fan noticed last year, the elegant ivory-and-gold moulding of the newly-renovated Shubert drag attention away from the raw power of the events occuring onstage...
...diluted," he says. "I wanted to do something that was truly rock 'n' roll and truly theater." He teamed up with Trask, the leader of a band called Cheater, and the two developed the show in a series of downtown club gigs. Mitchell even passed up a role in Rent (as the drag queen Angel) to keep at it. After searching in vain for a theater, the show landed in a renovated ballroom at the Hotel Riverview, a flophouse near the Hudson River that once sheltered the surviving crew of the Titanic...
...fall I will shop for apartments rather than classes, and have the chance to live in another culture and in a grown-up world: to cook and to pay rent, to study, to watch television, to take weekend trips to Egypt or Italy. These common aspects of college elsewhere (minus the Italy thing) will be quite a shock. An apartment. That probably means furniture. Then again, I may fail at groceries and whimper back here for the spring...
Finishing lunch, the next stop is RooseveltTowers, one of the few rent-controlled housingdevelopments left in the city. Swaggering outsidein a blue and black Georgetown Bulldogs Starterjacket is R. Jefferson Williams, 19, aself-described Gangster Disciples (GD) member...