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...birthplace for the global-warming pact that was named for it. At the end of my trip last November, I toured the grounds of Nanzenji, a Buddhist complex that sprawls through the wooded slopes to the east of the city, and watched red and gold leaves fall upon a rock garden, where they were swept up by monks. Kyoto's temples show how humans can live in nature and actually add to it, not just take from...
...rich-toned, 11-time Grammy winner widely regarded as the most influential jazz saxophonist since John Coltrane; of leukemia; in New York City. A prized session player for artists from Chet Baker to Bruce Springsteen, he also dazzled as a front man in his own bands, including the rock fusion group the Brecker Brothers, with his trumpet-playing brother Randy. Of his early encounter with the dense, hypnotic riffs of Coltrane, who inspired him to become a professional musician, he said, "There seemed to be too many notes lying around. I kept listening to it, though, until one day something...
...former Thyssen Steelworks. Blast furnaces, rail lines, gas tanks--corroded ruins of the industrial age--were reborn as archaeological monuments among newly planted groves and grasslands. And the designer, Peter Latz, didn't hesitate to directly invade the factory precincts with trees and smaller plantings, playgrounds and rock-climbing walls. By that means the derelict factory was woven back into the world of the living. The past, instead of operating as a burden--something the Germans know all about--becomes the very opposite, a plaything for the present. If history starts looking like a cage, who says...
...hopefully). Wander the nocturnal Rue Crescent and admire the fashionable foreign students spilling out of Montreal’s hottest clubs like Electric Avenue and Karina. If you are feeling predatory, try Peel Pub, where beer, cheap shooters and McGill freshman vomit all flow freely. Listen to some alternative rock and punk bands at Les Foufounes Electriques. Try not to notice that all of the students are back in class as you headbang to silence. In a shocking twist of fate, the city did not choose to host its International Fireworks Competition, International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs Festival, International...
...anticipated novel at the Brattle Theater, providing the perfect mode of acceptable procrastination as you finish up studying for finals. Thursday, Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. The Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St. $3 3)Tracy Morgan, Live! Saturday Night Live veteran and star of the newest NBC comedy, 30 Rock, returns to Boston to perform a solo act that’s sure to be absolutely hilarious. Tracy Morgan, famous for his hysterical portrayal of Brian Fellow on SNL, may not have wowed audiences with his own Tracy Morgan Show, but this Maya Angelou impersonator has proved he?...