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'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera
If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Concerts, The Sound of Music (movie), Music Theater
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Concert Review: This 'Kid' is an old soul
Arlo Guthrie didn't perform "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" Saturday night at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, but the song, in a way, was there in spirit. Guthrie's signature tune from 1967 (better known simply as "Alice's Restaurant") works partly as...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Theater, Entertainment Events, Woodstock Festival (1969)
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Reebok drops Rick Ross over controversial lyrics
Rick Ross’ controversial lyrics that seemed to promote date rape resulted in the superstar rapper-mogul being dropped as a spokesperson for Reebok. After intense pressure from a number of organizations, including anti-sexism collective ...Tags: Radio Industry, Kanye West, Entertainment, Civil Rights, Ecstacy (drug)
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Pastor's Son: Hear No Evil
I feel trapped. As much as I love hip-hop music, I can’t love what’s being said by many of its artists. Many mainstream secular hip-hop artists spew misogynistic, profanity-filled, ill-glorified lyrics about a lifestyle I refuse to support....
Tags: Radio Industry, Entertainment, Lake Mary, Casselberry, Genres
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Weekend preview: Tortuga ticket news and the new Mike Tyson
The rumors running rampant (OK, two friends from different parts of Broward County) that Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival is sold out are not true. In fact, organizers are expecting “heavy walk-up” at the festival on Saturday...
Tags: Entertainment, Concerts, Music, Weston (Broward, Florida), Dance
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"An Iliad" brings Trojan War to Boca Raton
Staff Writer"An Iliad" feels like it needs just a little bit more somehow. For an hour and 20 minutes with no intermission, Avi Hoffman is onstage at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton, recounting the epic poem by Homer as a monologue by playwrights...Tags: Denis O'Hare, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Lyric Opera offers trio of bel canto greats
In theory, if not always in practice, all opera singing should sound beautiful. It's practically required when dealing with one specific genre, the early 19th century Italian repertoire known as "bel canto," because that's what it means — "beautiful...
Tags: Mount Royal, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Artists
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'Upstream Color' review: Pretentious hogwash--sometimes literally
* (out of four) Forgiving critics and moviegoers often call films without articulate points or well-defined characters "poems." This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the frustrating, hollow “Upstream Color,&...
Tags: Entertainment, The Master (movie), Movies, Paul Thomas Anderson
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'To Cross the Face of the Moon': Lyric's fusion of opera, mariachi brings crowd to its feet ★★★ 1/2
Nothing like the exuberant dazzle of mariachi to explode operatic stereotypes. The shouts and cheers that went up from the sold-out audience Sunday afternoon at the Civic Opera House said it all. What was billed as the world's first mariachi opera...
Tags: Mexico, Entertainment, Music, Arts and Culture, Pilsen
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Charlotte Bronte poem: $47,000 an inch
A tiny poem written by a teenage Charlotte Bronte has sold for more than $140,000, the Guardian reports. Called "I've Been Wandering in the Greenwoods," the poem, composed when Bronte was 13 years old, is handwritten on a piece of paper just three...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Literature
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I went down to the crossroads, with books about L.A.
It isn’t every day that you can read from a book and feel the words come to life before your eyes. That happened to me Wednesday morning, at Union Station, at an event designed to make passing L.A. commuters hip to the upcoming Los Angeles Times...
Tags: Mexico, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Electronics, Los Angeles International Airport, Mexico City
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Review: 'New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012' by Charles Simic
How to write a Charles Simic poem: Go to a café. Wait for something weird to happen. Record mouse activity. Repeat as necessary. (For "mouse," feel free to substitute "cat," "roach," "rat," "chicken," "donkey," etc.) Born in Belgrade, Simic emigrated to...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arts and Culture, Literature
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