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Activists Ask: Rosa, Wherefore Are Thou?

by Melinda Tuhus | Aug 29, 2007 11:40 pm | Comments (1)

Following an action Tuesday night in which protesters called on members of Congress to vote to bring U.S. troops home, peace activists (like Henry Lowendorf, pictured in file photo) are calling on U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro to sign onto a letter vowing to vote against any more funds for the war in Iraq. Seventy of her colleagues have done just that.

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As You Like It—And You Will

by Allan Appel | Aug 17, 2007 10:06 am

Ever think your boyfriend needed a serious wake-up call?

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Bach Meets the Summer of Love

by Allan Appel | Aug 16, 2007 8:04 am

The 1960s and the 1760s were alive and well, cool and contemplative, in a musical program complete with projected video graphics that danced to the sounds of a John Cage/Philip Glass-type minimalist composition written in the “Summer of Love,” 1967.

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Roots Reggae Shakes Up Toad’s

by Georgia Kral | Aug 8, 2007 10:22 am

Cecil “Skelly” Spence and Lascelle “Wiss” Bulgin (pictured), whose group Israel Vibration brought blissed-out grooves and reggae beats to the newly reopened Toad’s Place Tuesday night, share something that most other reggae artists don’t.

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Toad’s Is Back!

by Nick Vinocur | Aug 6, 2007 11:10 am | Comments (2)

Opening its doors for the first time in 90 days, the downtown hot spot reared back to life with no sign of having suffered from its absence—or lost its will to party.

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Shells Gathered

by Melinda Tuhus | Aug 3, 2007 1:15 pm

I’ve often thought that all warriors who survive war with any sense of humanity intact must all suffer from PTSD. “Gathering Shells” at the Little Theatre confirms my belief.

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Bravo for the Bacchae

by Allan Appel | Aug 2, 2007 10:30 am

An irrational sect arrives in a city, or a society. It’s secretive and powerful, seems to have a nasty habit of targeting women, and is full of a feeling of righteous vengeance for past wrongs that demand righting. In exchange for extreme pleasures and oblivion-inducing, death-defying transport, it requires of its adherents a devotion so absolute it can even make mothers complicit in the gruesome deaths of their own sons.

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