This is beautiful writing, an amalgam of music, syntax and thought working in perfect concert to express a complex but unified idea. What such a sentence presents is a person, a mind on the page, a personality or, to borrow a word that has, sadly, fallen somewhat out of fashion, a sensibility.
The queen of soul announced Monday her wedding has been called off. So much for love being forever lasting!
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For my Spokane Public Radio movie review this morning, I discussed “Hugo.” Not a big fan, for reasons that I enumerate, mainly involving director Martin Scorsese’s inability to follow a fairy-tale rendering of fantasy the way he does so naturally with hard-edged stories such as “Mean Streets,” “Goodfellas” or “The Departed.”
One thing I didn’t mention, however, was his use of 3-D. Not that impressive. Oh, it’s OK, as is the whole visual package. But it’s just cu
WARSAW, Poland A Polish court slapped a fine on a popular singer who bad-mouthed the Bible the latest episode in which authorities grapple with religious defamation in a traditionally Catholic country that is growing increasingly secular. Dorota Rabczewska, a singer who uses the stage name Doda, said in a 2009 interview that she doubted the Bible “because it’s hard to believe in something that was written by someone drunk on wine and smoking some herbs.”
A Warsaw court ordered her Monday to pay a fine of 5,000 zlotys for offending religious feelings.
The case comes months after another Polish court let off a death metal performer, Adam Darski, who tore a Bible during a 2007 performance.
It doesn’t matter if you have “Thriller” on vinyl or the 25th anniversary CD of Michael Jackson’s hit album. You’ll be thrilled with Cirque du Soleil’s take on Jackson, beyond his music with “Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour” that hit Sacramento’s Power Balance Pavilion earlier this week.
From “Dralion” to “Allegria” and more, Cirque du Soleil is a well-oiled machine, producing mesmerizing shows that meld music, dance, acrobatics and visuals into a spellbinding production, featuring a crème de la crème of international performers. T