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...mostly chronological rendition of the songs, a theme does emerge: of social change in America, from before the First World War to after the Second. Along with the love songs and star turns, Stairway has Depression dirges ("Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime"), war anthems (Berlin's, of course) and songs of social significance. But glamour drove the old Ziegfeld revues, and glamour at Encores! is not skin but star quality. The star here is Kristen Chenoweth, that petite package of pyrotechnics who has wowed Broadway in Wicked and, this season, in The Apple Tree (a production that originated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Fabulous Follies | 5/12/2007 | See Source »

...list of new arts funding, including an extra C$50 million for the Canada Council for the Arts, Harper himself has not responded directly to Martel or commented in the media. A Harper spokesperson did say that the PM "reads a variety of books when he has some spare time." Martel concedes that the Prime Minister has a lot of demands on his time, but he is not willing to excuse Harper from his homework assignments entirely and notes that the two books he has sent so far are relatively short. The first, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Canadian Literacy Campaign for One | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...should warn you when I'm not well," sings Jeff Tweedy midway through Sky Blue Sky, the sixth studio album by Wilco, the protean band Tweedy has fronted for a decade. Over the years, Tweedy's brooding lyrics--fueled by battles with anxiety and addiction--have often overshadowed the spare beauty of his songwriting. But Sky Blue Sky is bright and affecting, mixing doses of '70s soul on tracks like Side with Seeds and Hate It Here with the sun-drenched guitar rock of Impossibly Germany and What Light, on which Tweedy advises, "It's alright to be frightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: May 21, 2007 | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...plight. I still feel awkward when they ask me for money and I am not able to give. I feel a certain tension when I walk past them, wanting to help them, but knowing that I can’t take away their problems by simply giving them some spare change...

Author: By Lumumba Seegars | Title: Facing Our Neighbors | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...same people day in and day out has put a mark of familiarity on their faces. There’s even a certain level of informality with which I greet some of the ones that I notice more. There is a “Do you have any spare change?” followed by an “I’m sorry, brother, I don’t have any change on me.” And it usually ends with a “Thank you anyway, have a nice...

Author: By Lumumba Seegars | Title: Facing Our Neighbors | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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