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...performance bar of just wanting to get out of the stadium alive, it was a solid, giant, silly performance, the kind America mastered long ago. There was some kind of very Olympicesque allegory about overcoming adversity in which evil icicle people chased a small boy with a lamp. Sting sang. Native Americans played flutes. The wave was waved. The entire stadium played plastic flutes and sang a rendition of She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain. And they didn't seem to mind...
...tolerance--are universal; you can identify with the flag that stands for them even if your loyalties are shared. Who did not get a kick out of seeing Bono--Irish to his boots--unveil that Stars and Stripes jacket at the Super Bowl? Who doubted that when Paul McCartney sang of the "fight for the right to live in freedom," he was sincerely thanking those doing the fighting on our behalf...
After 32 years in the business, Hong Kong poultry farmer Lam Po-sang has seen his share of sick chickens. "Chickens usually die gradually," he says. So when about one-quarter of his 140,000 stock was suddenly wiped out in three days, Lam was shocked. He'd never seen anything like it. "One minute they were flapping their wings," he says, "the next they were dead...
...here to see a diva of another sort. Dressed in an embroidered vest stolen from his mother’s closet, a tight black shirt and a pair of faded jeans, Rufus came onto the stage and sat down at the grand piano awaiting him. And then he sang...
Rufus comes from a family of many talented musicians and singers (his father is Loudon Wainwright III and his mother is Kate of Kate and Anna McGarrigle) who have clearly influenced and supported his work. His sister Martha Wainwright sang with him during most of the show, and they performed a duet on “One Man Guy” written by their father. I spoke with Rufus before the show, and when I asked him if he preferred playing with family Rufus answered that it is a bonus, but that each member of the family has their...