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...Might invite controversy: Would they have to display the bodies of the rest of the band? How about back-up singers? [WHERE] HARD ROCK CAFE, NEW YORK...
...glance Fireteam from Multitude looks like any other online shoot-'em-up, its Internet site a meeting place for any gaming geek with a modem. But a headset with a microphone adds a new twist. Real-time voice communication over the Net lets teammates talk--plan attacks, call for back-up--while their hands are free...
Drag performances, from the late Charles Ludlum to Lypsinka, have a long, honored tradition in Manhattan's downtown theater scene. But this is a wig of a different color. John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote the show and does a smashing turn (accompanied by a grungy back-up band) as the fictional Hedwig, avoids high camp, low sex jokes and Judy Garland impressions. True, Hedwig's stage patter has its share of double entendres ("I do love a warm hand on my entrance"), but the literate script is also a poignant meditation on loneliness, gender confusion and the Platonic notion that...
...cracking jokes about how irresponsible and high on drugs they were. Maybe they didn't care if their fun and games scared me into not jumping; no refunds, after all. They did double-check our seat harnesses, however, and helped us don chest harnesses, to serve as an emergency back-up should the seat harness fail...
Kowal, meanwhile, is the Crimson's back-up point guard for co-captain Megan Basil. Kowal provides a change of pace from Basil's style--while the latter is more of a spot-up shooter and half-court offense executor, Kowal's game is collapsing defenses by penetrating and then dishing to an open teammate. She is an excellent ball handler with superb quickness, and she is seldom unnerved...