Published Sunday, January 11, 2009
Different
& alike
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
Next weekend, the cast of the Performing Arts in Children’s Education production will plead with audiences in Jesse Auditorium to go one step further and fall in love with children such as Tim Wallace, Andy Janssen and Joe Reneker, three cast members who are, as director Angela Howard puts it, "differently abled."
Ferguson ties knot, again
Presley defends Scientology
Polanski still under scrutiny
MUSIC
NOTES AND TONES
In with the new: Jazz addicts migrate to new organization
By JON W. POSES
NEW YORK - Usually around this time each year I find myself in one city or another or, as was the case last year, another country, attending the International Association for Jazz Educators annual conference/convention.
LIVE MUSIC
Rambling boy
By CHARLES GANS
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - After a career on modern jazz’s cutting edge, bassist Charlie Haden acknowledges being scared before recording his first country music album at Ricky Skaggs’ studio in Nashville, Tenn.
Parton, Jones find home at Hall of Fame
By JOHN GEROME
of The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Dolly Parton, Michael W. Smith, Dr. Bobby Jones, the Dixie Hummingbirds and producer Lari Goss will be inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame next month.
VISUAL ARTS
NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN AREA ARTIST
Mary O’Brien
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
Picture Mary O’Brien at the canvas. M.I.A. or some techno-funk band is blasting, and O’Brien might be dancing along. Her hair, fiery red waves, is swept from her face with a single bobby pin.
3M grant boosts CAL’s youth education efforts
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
A $20,000 grant, the largest Columbia Art League has received in its 50-year history, has given the organization the boost it has been looking for.
The vote’s in
Just in time for the Jan. 20 inauguration, the Columbia Art League presents a new exhibition titled "Politically Speaking." The show, which opens Tuesday and runs through Feb. 22, offers more than 60 pieces of artwork with a political theme.
EXHIBITS
Performing arts
Real hoofers
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Even horses need to rehearse. Especially those played by humans.
It’s 30 minutes before the audience begins filing into the Broadhurst Theatre for a Tuesday evening performance of "Equus." Actors in street clothes pace and leap across the stage.
ON
STAGE
Books
COVER TO COVER
"Israel’s Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza”
By CARLIN ROMANO
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Back in 1936, Aldous Huxley borrowed "eyeless in Gaza," a phrase from Milton’s "Samson
Agonistes," for the title of perhaps his best novel. That story revolves around a Huxleyan stand-in, Anthony Beavis, whose pacifism doesn’t keep him from being lured into the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution.
New tome ties JFK murder to killing of RFK and MLK
By CARL HARTMAN
for The Associated Press
A new, heavily researched book on President John F. Kennedy’s murder and its investigation sees links with a bagful of sensational stories, from President Lyndon Johnson’s fear of a nuclear attack by the Soviets to the killing of Martin Luther King Jr.
