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...name The Swell Season since 2006, now have an Oscar and a Grammy. Once is the best-selling album on iTunes and the #9 DVD on Amazon. Their label expects sales of the album to triple in the next week. The pair is gearing up for a U.S. tour: Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought - Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring...
...musicians, that is surely true enough. Unless Tehran someday beckons as the next stop in an "axis of evil" tour, there can be no stranger venue than Pyongyang for some of the world's finest musicians to play. The buses that transported the orchestra, staff and some 80 foreign journalists (three times the number that accompanied then Secretary of State Madeline Albright for her meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in late 2000) rolled past building after building that was unlit in the late afternoon gloom; pedestrians on the streets stared as the fleet of buses rolled into...
...decide they'd be better off switching to the IPL or some other similar circus that could spring up before long? Already, the Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds - snared by Hyderabad for $1.35 million over three years - has indicated he'd rather play in the upcoming IPL tournament than tour an unstable Pakistan as part of his national squad...
...little flickers of white light. The sparkler, of course, was sticking out of Krylon Superstar’s ass. Now in its eleventh year, the Sex Workers’ Art Show bills itself as a blend of consciousness-raising, entertainment, and titillation. The show’s national tour gives workers in the sex industry—strippers, porn actors, burlesque dancers, dominatrixes—a chance to present a more nuanced view of their profession. They critique and celebrate. They get naked. But when I first heard about the show, I focused on the third word in the title...
Later, as his tour of the Ford plant 50 miles north was winding down, McCain was finally forced to wander over to the print reporters-not to talk, just to look at more cars. He was trailed by a mob of photographers and Cindy, smiling in a black turtleneck, her hair tightly wound. "Very interesting," he said, just before someone showed him the Escape Hybrid. "This is the future obviously." Another Ford executive put him in the driver's seat of a Focus, which could play an iPod on voice command. "Play Abba," said McCain. But the iPod...