By admin | February 2, 2009
It sounds like a concept hatched by stoned new agers, or maybe a drunken joke: the story of Enron, whose nefarious business strategies became the most meteoric rise-and-fall tale in corporate history, told through interpretive dance.
But if anyone in Philly was going to do it, it had to be the Rebecca Davis Dance Co., which [...]
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Within the United States is the nation of Guyland, a demographic of 16-26 year-old white males who live by the credo “Bros Before Hos” and binge drink their ways through their formative years. At their most innocuous, the citizens of Guyland are nothing more than young men who play too many violent video games and [...]
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The idea that Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst would direct a family film like “The Longshots” is the stuff of late-night talk show jokes, an idea so absurd that there would seem to be some law of nature prohibiting it. But you’ve got to hand it to Durst. The guy skyrockets to fame and coolness, [...]
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Perhaps it’s one of the ultimate exercises of postmodernism: what you call a disability, I call a culture. To the deaf, the malfunctioning cochleae are the source of their language and unbreakable bond between one another. And as Josh Aronson’s documentary “Sound and Fury” shows, the culture strives for its own posterity as does any [...]