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Desk: Johnson appears to enjoy a variety of regional interests. “Lots of tickets from French museums,” Kauble observes. Pointing to a Bonnie Raitt/Lyle Lovett ticket stub, he notes, “She likes old country music. Maybe she’s from Nashville.” In the desk drawer, he finds a number of postcards and papers. “Uh-oh. ‘Love Brian’ [he reads on a postcard]. There’s a ‘Brian’ in her life. Looks like her ex-boyfriend...
...anyone who joined the Smoke-out this or any year, I offer my good wishes. Buck up, stub it out, and watch the minute hand of your cigaretteless day creep like an hour hand. My aim here is not to defend smoking; I freely acknowledge that, as a hobby (all right, a habit), it smells, and that Woody Allen was probably being satirical when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that...
Some Feast for the Eyes events are still in the planning stage, and they vary in setup. This coming Thursday, presenting a ticket stub from the sexually-charged Mexican audience-pleaser Like Water for Chocolate at Finale will get you a $17.95 appetizer and dessert combo, plus an unspecified “parting gift.” A full list is available at www.brattlefilm.org/thursday.html....
...Florida-based favorite, plays tracks from both Blackwater, their newly re-released CD, and a new CD to be released next year. Originally from Amherst, MA, Hi8us features a unique mix of funk, rock, pop, Latin, reggae, and electronica. 8 p.m. $12 ($5 off with String Cheese Incident stub). The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass...
Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...