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Bush claims that the people that these organizations seek to help—recovering drug addicts, alcoholics, and the poor, among others—are free to choose between religiously affiliated or secular programs. But often, these people will enroll in the most vocal or the best financed organizations. It is hard to imagine a homeless person who is offered help by a group refusing it just because of the group’s religious affiliation. Other times, those most in need of help by these charitable groups have no choice at all. For example, the only vocational training available...
...hard to know what to make of Sweetheart, in part because they tend to evoke equal numbers of positive and negative associations in their listeners. The sound of this Kent, Ohio quartet is easy enough to describe: a driving weave of melodic guitar lines combined with vocal harmonies that occasionally bleed into fast, screamy breakdowns. But just as it is impossible to listen to this CD without the party of helicopter’s seminal Mt. Forever coming to mind, it is equally difficult to tune out the strains of any number of mediocre pop-punk bands...
...first three tracks emblemize this interplay. Track one (“Am I saying ‘tight’ too much?”) begins with what sounds like a classic indie-pop-punk riff and whiny vocals (“fuck this town/I’ll burn it down”) but then eventually progresses to an impassioned and screechy vocal breakdown à la Born Against’s “I am an Idiot.” This trend crops up again, but reversed, in track three—starting out with the intense...
Lowe set the stage for an engaging, impassioned series of student performances, singing “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” from Les Miserables. His vocal stretches from frenzied cry to scarcely audible whisper succeeded in both Prince’s tenets of “gleaning as much information as you possibly can from the actual lyric” while still “mak[ing] a role your...
...itself is the name for sets of bells worn on the ankles in traditional Indian dance, and thus it was appropriate that this instrument be featured in the first act of the show, a classical dance called “Arabhimaanam.” Accompanied by traditional vocal and instrumental music, the dance combined storytelling with graceful dancing, and served to open the audience up to the heritage of Indian dance, essentially providing a background with which to judge all that would follow...