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...knows it’s history when you’re just doing it,” Betsy Siggins Smith says of the past 50 years of Club Passim. Opened in 1958 as Club 47, Passim has served as a launching pad for several legendary folk musicians, including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Siggins Smith, the club’s artistic director, began her career at Passim as a waitress in 1959, crossing over the Charles from Boston University to Cambridge with close friend Joan Baez. Today, Passim continues to provide opportunities for unknown artists while also attracting...
...mission will be the country's first to carry three astronauts - or hangtianyuan, as they are called in Chinese - into orbit. The spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz vessel, will carry a Russian and a Chinese-designed space suit. "This is big," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "It's not easy to design a space suit that's flexible and has life support...
...grieving and finally the birth of her second child, a baby boy, a year later. It is, as McCracken writes, "a story so grim and lessonless it's better not to think about at all." But reading it is a mysteriously enlarging experience. It could pair neatly with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking: it's hard to imagine two more rigorous, unsentimental guides to enduring the very bottom of the scale of human emotion...
...starred in The Broadway Melody, the first talkie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, yet actress Anita Page was known for her work in silent films. The New York City native was cast in many silent movies, notably alongside Joan Crawford in 1928's Our Dancing Daughters, though when her MGM contract ended in 1933, Page all but disappeared from film...
...first group, America's cultural conservatives, dominates the Republican convention hall, and they've adopted Palin almost overnight as their Joan of Arc. They like her uncompromising position on abortion, they like the guns in her home and the game in her freezer, and they like the way she symbolizes a jaunty "up yours" to cultural snobs the world over. So Palin can count on a passionate welcome and abundant cheers as she accepts the GOP's vice-presidential nomination...