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HRDC's new production of Sophocles' Antigone is a bit overwhelming at first, beginning with a confusing torrent of voices and pantomimed scenes. What is important to understand is that Sophocles' classical Greek play has been transferred to Civil War-era Maryland, a border state and thus the most likely locale for the background story of the tragedy. Two brothers, sons of Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus), fight each other to the death, one brother killing the other and then dying from a bullet wound. Creon, the governor of Maryland (Edie Bishop '00) has declared that the Union Army brother will...
When asked about the impact of a secular society on Christianity, Taylor critiqued religious leaders who were too vigorous in trying to bring church and state together...
...lack of interest, very few of Wols's vintage prints exist. Those that are extant are often water-damaged or scratched. Because of the scarcity of originals, most of the prints displayed were made by photographic historians Volker Kamen and Georg Heusch in 1976. These contemporary prints replicate the state of the original negatives: minor scratches and imperfections are seen on the surface of most of the prints. The contemporary prints are framed by the black lines of the negative holder, reminding us that the artist, who would have had the freedom to enlarge or crop, had no hand...
...Thursday night, and you're fed up. Mid-terms suck, boyfriends suck, girlfriends suck, everything sucks. Time for some fresh air. Tonight, and every Thursday night, starting at Khoury's State Spa in Somerville, is the scheduled 4.13 mile run on a roller-coaster, up-and-down course through the town, sponsored by the Somerville Racing Club. It's at 7 p.m. at Khoury's, 118 Broadway...
...parade of evildoers, they have tended to come straight out of Central Casting : poor, lower-class hard-luck cases for whom murder was the defining moment of their lives -- think Karla Faye Tucker, or Texas dragging murderer James William King. But the death sentence handed down Tuesday to former state prosecutor and political adviser Thomas Capano for the murder of a secretary to the governor of Delaware brings the death penalty to a far more rarefied social stratum. Indeed, when was the last time a rich, powerful white man was sentenced...