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...21st-birthday bash at Windsor Castle. Aspiring comedian Aaron Barschak managed to kiss the Prince on both cheeks and head for the bar before being nabbed by police. Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered an urgent inquiry into the "appalling breach" in security; Britons were aghast. But the real wonder is why anyone was surprised at all. Despite the millions of dollars a year British taxpayers pay to protect the royals, such lapses are an annual event, with more than 20 intrusions in the past two decades. Here's a look at the most memorable breaches. June 1981 Three German tourists...
...with his back to them - there are more festivals in Europe than ever: an estimated 1,500 a year, according to Munich business consultant and jazz fan Peter Leimgruber. Some are small and resolutely pure, others gigantic, with programs full of rock and lite-jazz artists who make aficionados wonder why the promoters still call them jazz festivals. While Europe's love for improvised music remains strong, the festival business is getting tougher as competition stiffens, artists' fees rise, and government subsidies fade. Is this all too much of a good thing? Jan Ole Otnes, the director of Europe...
...fascination and the desire of a woman in her mid-30s to be fascinating to stupid teens - "I want to play Xbox on your floor," she sings. Longtime fans will get the humor even though they may resent being cast aside like last year's game console. Teens will wonder how Mrs. Robinson got into their bedroom. The Matrix songs on Liz Phair sound like sugarcoated contemporary pop, but they feel all wrong. Pop is equal parts attitude and sound; when the attitude is neediness, the sound is of people running away. "I don't expect my album...
...live four blocks from the J and Z elevated lines in Queens. When people come to visit me from the suburbs or areas without mass-transit systems, I wonder what they think of the el rattling by my family’s home. But I’m not at all embarrassed by the proximity of my home to the these behemoths. After all, an externality is negative only for bystanders whose well-being is impacted negatively. After having spent last summer at Harvard, the past several weeks back home have helped me to rediscover just how much I love...
...MacLachlan, but most notoriously Madonna in the execrable Up For Grabs - many of them sellout performances in every sense of the phrase. After Matthew Perry (one of the Friends) began filling the Comedy Theatre with his lightweight turn in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, you began to wonder if schlock is the only way to sell tickets these days. Who'd have guessed that it would take a long-dead Norwegian playwright to save the West End? To the relief of lovers of serious theater, no fewer than four plays by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) have opened...