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...seeker of either sex, money is a draw. Salaries can run + from $20,000 to $35,000 a year, plus generous tips. Providing such routine services as travel arrangements, sight-seeing tours, secretaries, translators and after-hours tailors and florists brings in respectable gratuities. Prestidigitation -- securing tickets to a sold-out play-off game or making last-minute reservations at the hottest restaurant -- can earn a hefty $100. Gifts from satisfied guests are not uncommon. "I never have to do any Christmas shopping," says Bettye Bradley, 61, of the Grand Hotel in Washington. "All I have to do is rewrap...
...years ago, Piro's New York cast and crew threw a "We are the World" benefit night for African famine victims. And just last year in Cambridge, two members of the local revue were married at the show, in front of a sold-out audience...
...haunting metaphors, aphoristic dialogue and spiritual searching. The event, viewable in a marathon day or in three installments, is The Mahabharata, the most ambitious production yet by Peter Brook, 62, the visionary elder statesman among stage auteur directors. A French version originated in Avignon in 1985, then played to sold-out houses in Paris in 1986. The English-language premiere transfers this week from the Los Angeles Festival, where it played in a cavernous studio, to a twelve-week run in a more intimate theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...
Britisher Billy Bragg titled his last album Talking With The Taxman About Poetry after a 1926 poen by Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. But a typical Bragg concert, like the sold-out show last week at the Paradise, is more like "Talking With the Rock Star About Foreign Policy...
...looks like the concert will break even, and if it does the council will make back the $12,000 investment. But under the terms of the council's agreement, it was not out of the financial woods even after the Bright Hockey Center concert sold-out the first day tickets went on sale. When the SPA set ticket prices, it apparently did not take into account that even a full house would not cover Costello's $33,500 appearance...