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...dozens of police monitoring the event. But the arrests never came: the police simply waited and watched as speakers and musicians climbed a mobile soundstage and addressed the increasingly frigid crowd. After nearly three hours, with activists beginning to wonder what it took to get arrested in this town anymore, the protest's leader decided it was time to declare victory and go home. "We won!" Russell told the cheering crowd. "We shut this coal plant down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Snow — and Irony — a Climate Protest Persists | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...think. The academy is beginning to take over criticism, for good and ill. But there’s something very exciting about being in London around 1910, just as modernism is about to take off—crazy Ezra Pound has come over from America and is running around town, saying, “we’re going to tear up the old forms”.12.FM: The issue of power between critic and writer is an interesting one; who runs thing in the realm of things domestic? If your (Lucien) mom and dad were yelling contradictory orders, whom...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Claire Messud and James Wood | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...grand-opening two-night weekend package, "With Love from Nashville," which includes champagne upon arrival, a candlelit dinner for two at the hotel's restaurant, plus a complimentary martini, breakfast and a $5 gift card from Amazon.com - use it to download any country western song you hear around town, the home of the Grand Ol' Opry. Rates start at $479 and are valid Friday through Sunday, through April 30. 1808 West End Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agatha Christie's Private Escape, and Other Travel Goodies | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...well as his never-before-performed journal entries, she was able to create a loosely chronological picture of his life.The play started with a vignette inspired by his children and then circled back to Gray’s painfully funny stories of adolescence in a small Rhode Island town. Each actor performed monologues centered on a different thematic element of Gray’s life—his exploits, his sexual encounters, or his fatherly instincts. Four seasoned performers–-Josh Lefkowitz, Ain Gordon, David Cale and Alina Troyana—told stories from Gray’s personal...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At ICA Event, Spalding Gray has ‘Stories Left to Tell’ | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...closed the first act, offering a different, but equally satisfying, type of performance from those preceding it.The second act of the afternoon show continued to impress with the wide array of cultures and talents Harvard boasts. Tommy and Andres, a two-man band, sang about a picturesque Lithuanian peninsula town; even though the two sported get-ups and relied simply on a guitar, a violin and their voices, their performance equaled other, flashier numbers.The Harvard Breakers infused the show with new energy, popping, locking, and spinning upside down. In the subsequent interview with Aykroyd, one member explained that...

Author: By Samantha C. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard's Got 'Rhythms' | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

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