?Culture is not extra. Stew, Politics, Art ?Culture is not extra. Stew, Politics, Art July 23, 2008 ? tc Spike Lee to Film Tony Award-Winning Musical ?Passing Strange? as Show Comes to a Close on Broadway The rock musical Passing Strange closes on Sunday after a six-month run on Broadway. The show won a Tony Award for best book. It was co-written by its star, longtime recording artist Stew and Heidi Rodewald. It was nominated for six other Tony's including best musical. Acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee is planning to film the musical .Passing Strange Theater Tickets. Who Knows? Maybe Al Has a Chance After All Tickets, Who Knows? Maybe Al Has a Chance After All By Jeff Fecke | July 23, 2008 Rasmussen has the race still close to tied, with Norm up 44-43; factor in leaners, and Al has the 49-46 lead. Granted, Rasmussen has been Franken's best polls throughout the race.hile Survey USA has shown Coleman with a consistent ~10 point lead, Rasmussen has had the race tied, with Franken having a narrow edge, fairly consistently. This is passing strange, of course; Rasmussen tends to tilt right if it tilts. Wall Street Welfare Reform Passing Strange Tickets, By the time a good idea makes it to Congress ? and actually gets some serious consideration ? it is no longer an idea whose time has come, but one whose time is way overdue. Such is the case as Congress takes up the issue of CEO pay, while staring in the face yet another expensive, and all but inevitable, taxpayer-financed corporate bailout. Democrats and Republicans queasy about a federal rescue of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are coalescing around the idea .of letting the govern. Don't tell me you're innocent, because it insults my intelligence Cheap Passing Strange Tickets, I believe in the importance of popular culture, and am committed enough to the analysis of culture that I regular assign texts in my classes that are more popular than canonical. And I don't think of pop culture as interesting .".merely.".in a cultural context . I think the best is worthy of detailed textual analysis as well. (I think one reason my dissertation was oddball is that I took popcult .".junk.". Travel habits picked up along the way Theater, As someone who travels a lot on work related trips, a plan and a schedule are so important to have. There are things that need to be accomplished, flights to be arranged and taken, accommodations to be set, meetings to be attended and a million other things to consider to make sure everything goes well. With the amount of travel I have done in my life and will still set out to do, I've developed some habits that have made me tide through them sometimes seamlessly, and at other times merely. June 29 se Aaj tak (Since june 29) Passing Strange, Here it is, the promised update on my rather exciting life, for which you have been patiently and eagerly waiting. Thank you for being such nice fans. I am flattered. I hope none of you are upset because I am just simply unable to reply to all the fan mail I get, so if you have been un-replied to, forgive me, and be assured that your affection and admiration keeps me going. I have flown for the first time. I loved the acceleration for take off, like in a roller coaster going down, only. Israel: Jerusalem Suffers Copycat Terrorist Attack Jerusalem Terror Attack? Breaking news in the Israeli mainstream news and blogosphere reports that a man driving a bulldozer ploughed down the streets of Jerusalem in a mad rampage, mimicking the tractor attack of 20 days past. An estimated 24 people were wounded and three killed when armed civilian Yaakov Asael and border guard Amal Ganem shot the driver dead, ending the assault. The murderer is reportedly a Palestinian from East Jerusalem in possession of an Israeli identity card. While. Headsprung: McCain's love-hate relationship with the media goes haywire , McCain supporters are in a full-.on lather about the supposed media bias in favor of Obama. Okay, let me backtrack, the media DOES prefer the Obama story, particularly this week, not because they just like Obama better - the Washington press corps likes John McCain plenty, and have since 2000. They're more interested in Obama at present because he is . wait for it . making news. By traveling overseas on his first major road trip, Obama, the neophyte in the race, is doing something visual and . Any Sober Moment , A funeral song is akin to a permanent application of fresh wallpaper in an abandoned home nobody will ever visit. A morbid celebration that collides with the perpetual mourning. Sudden loss, always. The requiem becomes the basis of the memory tattooed on the remaining heartbeat. Visions of peace and quiet as the dead finally lay to rest, their curtain call falling on the ears of the grieving. Whether it leave us suffering further or deep in a moment of relief eventually the song begins and every. ?Have you ever seen a UFO? #6 Tickets, IDYLLOPUS PRESS: OK, the first question is always ?Have you ever seen a UFO? DAMIEN: Yes, definitely. IDYLLOPUS PRESS: You have! OK! Tell me about it. Look! Look! I've got a UFO sighting! DAMIEN: I was probably about 12, 13, 14, somewhere in there, and I literally saw a flying saucer. IDYLLOPUS PRESS: It was a saucer. H.O.P. Ooooo! DAMIEN: It was very low and it had lights that were spinning around the perimeter of it. And it sat above a house across the street and I got a good five . |