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Growing older by indulging in pleasures of life
saulfriedman @comcast.netIf you're getting on in years and you do nothing else in 2009, be good to yourself. A little indulgence is necessary, especially now and at this time of life. For one of the unsettling facets of another new year is that you may see your own aging...Tags: Fiction, Music Theater, Coney Island, Brighton Park, Debbie Reynolds
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Music and dance figures
Music and dance figures Leona Wood, 86; painter, teacher and dancer who co-founded the Aman Folk Ensemble (Feb. 7) Natalia Bessmertnova, 66; Soviet-era prima ballerina who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for decades (Feb. 19) Dorothy Stone, 49, award-...Tags: Music Theater, Folk Music, Dancing, Joffrey Ballet, Dance
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Goodbye to Butch Cassidy and others
Of The Associated PressCharleton Heston's powerful screen presence dominated ''The Ten Commandments'' and ''Ben-Hur.'' Paul Newman portrayed lovable rogues in smaller-scale films that reflected changing attitudes toward sex and society. Moses and Michelangelo. Hud, Butch...Tags: Merle Haggard, Paul Scofield, Stan Winston, Revlon Incorporated, Robert Rauschenberg
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Karen Mason returns with gutsy abandon
Tribune criticTen years ago, a charismatic former Chicagoan brought a touch of glamour to a start-up Chicago cabaret. On Tuesday night, Karen Mason returned to Davenport's, marking an anniversary that few such rooms live long enough to celebrate. In the last decade,...Tags: Startups, Bill Clinton, Water Tower Place, Doris Day
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Neglected 'Vanessa' sees the light again
Chicago Tribune criticIllicit sex, deception, miscarriage and incest—it's either "Maury Povich" or an opera. And with subject matter such as that, what took Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" so long to get here? Chamber Opera Chicago, which has returned many a deserving...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Sexual Assault, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Samuel Barber
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Baltimore Opera's 'Norma' is of note
The future of the Baltimore Opera Company may be cloudy - it has a severe cash-flow problem, uncertain prospects for long-term fundraising, recent administrative changes - but the present sure sounds great. The production of Bellini's Norma that opened...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Mount Royal, Classical Music
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Lisa Hannigan steps out of Rice's shadow
Irish singer Lisa Hannigan sounds a little over the subject of Damien Rice, her friend and former collaborator. The prickly Irish troubadour known for his stinging, original songs and equally stinging temperament summarily fired her early last year just...Tags: Music, Michael Jackson, Popular Music, Trinity College, Connecticut
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Fleming reaches for the stars
"I think it's all downhill from there," Renee Fleming says in a perfect deadpan, referring to her unprecedented star turn on the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's season last month, when she performed three acts from three different operas. She...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Beverly Sills, Renee Fleming, Theater
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Curtain calls
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON
As the skies opened up and the wind howled, Neil Young never missed a beat
By Greg Kot
As a critic, I expect artists to give their all. But I do not expect them to defy death. So when I was asked to weigh in on my most surprising...Tags: Northwestern University, Music Theater, Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Charles Dickens
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Faux friends come alive at the Long Island Puppet Theatre
ariella.budick@newsday.com'No matter how cold, or raining, or miserable it is outside, in here it is always springtime," says Roman Valdes of his enchanted puppet theater/museum, a gilded cottage in the middle of this bleak stretch of Hicksville. He is referring to the dazzling...Tags: Luciano Pavarotti, Georgia, Hicksville, Family, Long Island
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Unsnarling traffic can be a mess
It's probably not a neighborhood in which you'd want to spend a lot of time. Not that it's dangerous. It's just 11 gritty blocks of small enterprises on West Pico Boulevard on the Westside. There's a charter school, a couple of strip clubs, a mattress...Tags: Small Businesses, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Santa Monica, Schools, Charter Schools
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Yves Saint Laurent, 71; icon of French fashion design
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died Sunday at 71. The designer died...Tags: Health and Beauty Products, Lauren Bacall, Armed Forces, New York Times, Gucci Group NV
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