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Helping a White Man Relearn Joie de Vivre
23 May 2012, 7:11 pm
“Les Intouchables,” having broken box office records in France, arrives in the United States with a faithfully translated title — “The Intouchables” — that is not quite English.
Things to do in Tampa Bay for the week of May 14
23 May 2012, 11:34 am
By Kelly Smith, Times Staff Writer Sunday, May 13, 2012 Wilco: The "American Radiohead" comparisons have died down, but the band is still among the best alternative songsmiths around. Show is at 7:30 tonight at Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa. $45.50 and up. (813) 229-7827. Craft Beer and Food Truck Festival: About 40 craft beer breweries — including Green Bench Brewery, Saint ...
The charter school path to teacher quality
22 May 2012, 6:00 am
Posted May 21, 2012, at 3:49 p.m. Most parents know who are the great teachers in their schools and who are the teachers to avoid. So on one level the resistance to evaluating teachers more systematically, rewarding good ones and encouraging bad ones to leave, is puzzling.
Adrian Searle encounters … chaos in Paris
21 May 2012, 10:43 pm
Healers and tricksters, shape-shifters and spirit guides, transgressors and transvestites – two exhibitions in Paris send the Guardian art critic into a spiral of panic In every encounter, you confront yourself first of all, your openness and your resistance. There's always a little voice in your head providing a running commentary. Some critics, recording this invisible guide's comments as they ...
Kiki Smith Will Bring Stained Glass Stars to Times Square
21 May 2012, 3:32 pm
Kiki Smith will be the third artist to be featured in the Public Art Fund’s “Last Lot” series, which brings art to a deserted lot in Times Square at 8th Avenue and West 46th Street, the project’s organizers announced today. Ms. Smith will place a series of stained glass stars statues in the lot that range from “18 inches to six feet in height and are a kaleidoscope of hand-blown, translucent ...
Teachers must make the grade in charter schools
20 May 2012, 7:06 pm
Most parents know who are the great teachers in their schools and who are the teachers to avoid. So on one level the resistance to evaluating teachers more systematically, rewarding good ones and encouraging bad ones to leave, is puzzling. Read full article >>
World - josephine-baker
Helping a White Man Relearn Joie de Vivre - New York Times
24 May 2012, 7:40 pm
African-American artists and intellectuals — Josephine Baker, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and too many jazz musicians to name — went to Paris to find respect and relief from the bigotry at home, and many contemporary French observers took ...
Rush Limbaugh bust goes on display in Missouri Capitol - USA Today
22 May 2012, 2:42 pm
It's official: After months of controversy, conservative talk show host and Show Me State native Rush Limbaugh has joined the likes of Harry Truman, Walt Disney and Josephine Baker as a member of the Hall of Famous Missourians. A week after Limbaugh's ...
Travel: Hotel Plaza Athenee, Paris - scotsman.com
21 May 2012, 6:18 pm
IN THIS, its centenary year, the Plaza Athenee, with its art deco steel and glass canopy, baskets of tumbling red flowers and scarlet awnings, is as attractive as in its first flush of youth, when Josephine Baker and Rudolph Valentino gayly danced across ...
Aria to an age when life came from literature - The Australian
18 May 2012, 7:30 am
IT was the world's longest literary party, Paris in the 1920s, the era of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce, of Cole Porter's lyrics and Josephine Baker dancing in her banana skirt ("I wasn't really naked," she said. "I simply didn't have ...
Paris without a magic cab - Regina Leader-Post
17 May 2012, 10:04 pm
It was a time when Gertrude Stein reigned over her famous salon and Cole Porter threw lavish soirees at his palatial mansion near Les Invalides; when Picasso and Dali sat for hours in Left Bank cafés discussing art; Josephine Baker lit up the stage of the ...
The pop burlesque of Dita Von Teese - Los Angeles Times
14 May 2012, 8:06 pm
Rounding out the vaudeville-meets-variety show skin-fest: Russian rubber-clad bad girl Lada, Josephine Baker lookalike Pearle Noir, and wisecracking drag king host Murray Hill, who dubbed the venue “House of Boobs” for the weekend.
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