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...with this annual showcase of student and faculty arts. There will be over 200 events going on, involving photography, film, dance, music, drama—you name it. All around campus, Thursday—Sunday. Free! 3. A.C. Jobim Tribute Escape to Rio de Janeiro with the music of Sergio Brandao at the nearby Regatta Bar. Brandao and his ensemble will be fusing modern jazz with Antonio Carlos Jobim’s classic tunes like “The Girl from Ipanema.” Regatta Bar, the Charles Hotel. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. $16 4. Tracy Morgan Getting tired...
...starting over from scratch - at least not when there are pieces worth saving. That's especially true in New Orleans, where many Creole townhouses and shotgun homes were built from centuries-old cypress native to the region and dense oak boards pulled from the sides of barges. Now Sergio Palleroni, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques around the country. "The furniture - you touch it and you feel...
...peplum fad kept the Italian film industry going until it discovered its next and more lasting trend, the spaghetti Western. Directors and stars simply moved from one genre to the next. Before helming A Fistful of Dollars, which kicked his and Clint Eastwood's career into overdrive, Sergio Leone had made his directing debut with The Colossus of Rhodes...
...good news traveled fast. As a leftist, Bologna's incoming mayor Sergio Cofferati was sure to be a friend to the city's most marginalized. And so an illegal encampment of Roma refugees on the city's outskirts began attracting new residents. "Word was spreading," recalls Bologna immigration chief Fausto Amelii, "that the new administration was going to take care of them...
...Morricone studied composition at a conservatory but earned his early money as an arranger of Italian pop. As he notes in the 1995 documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor who played the Man with No Name. A guy called...