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...Gardening In The Dark By Laura Kasischke This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday - making macaroni and cheese, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with...
...career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
DIED. Howard Greenfield, 49, pop-rock lyricist whose hits with collaborator (and high school buddy) Neil Sedaka included the 1975 Grammy winner Love Will Keep Us Together as well as Stupid Cupid, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles...
...Ward with the Louise Donovan Award. Each year the OFA chooses one senior each year to receive the Donovan Award in recognition of “outstanding work behind the scenes in the arts,” according to their press release. Mangu-Ward has worked on more than sixteen productions over the past four years...
...culture guilty pleasure is an MTV show called ‘My Super Sweet Sixteen.’ It follows incredibly wealthy, self-absorbed girls as they plan spectacularly decadent birthday parties for themselves. If your idea of fun is watching a fifteen year old girl scream at her Israeli father because her white Range Rover arrived a day late, this is the show...