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Several knockout acts dominated the night, showcasing the developing potential of local performers. Singer-guitarist Martin Sexton, deemed Outstanding Contemporary Folk Act, silenced the audience with his startlingly emotional ballad spiked with intense, accelerated outbursts. Winning Act of the Year, Outstanding Female Vocalist and Outstanding Country Act, country singer Jo Dee Messina, who was born and raised in Boston but cultivated her career down south, was thankful to be invited back home to display her powerfully clear and mellifluous voice. The impressive Kornlike hardcore band Godsmack, who received the Debut Album of the Year honor, blasted through synthetic fog with...
...writing about our past, says Kate Hays, a Toronto clinical psychologist, offers valuable "self-reflection, exploration, continuity and discovery." Most important, memoirs are true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe everyone won't equal his success, but to your family and friends the story you write will be prized above all others...
...last Friday, Murphy received a call from the church sexton, who said the bell sounded strange at its 8:45 ringing, Murphy said...
Anti-sexual and suicidal, female American poets often fall into the wrong hands. As teenagers we read Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and even Emily Dickinson with hungry self-identification, and then as teen angst recedes we discard them. In high school, I was assigned Plath at about the same time I discovered Tori Amos, and, like many, I clung onto both of them like a die hard indie fan. But then, growing up, realizing we demanded odd things of love, our parents and our world, we tend to brush off these brilliant-brave complainers as if their long struggles with...
More than a few productions in the Loeb Experimental Theater have tried for originality simply by changing a play's setting and adding lots of sexual innuendo. While Rachel Sexton '00's production of The Misanthrope uses both of these devices, in this case, the added twists enhance the play's charm and the end result is both cosmetically and intellectually refreshing. Of course, Moliere's tale of the struggle between honesty and courtesy would be poignant in any age. Setting Moliere in the Roaring Twenties, though, works particularly well, since the excesses of 17th century Parisian society translate rather...