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...goodwill because [the U.S. is] back and everyone is tired of spending the last eight years in the dungeon," says Jake Schmidt, the international-climate-policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. "But they need to start bringing real proposals to the table and show what they're willing to do in Copenhagen...
...stakes are high. When college students stage a show as ambitious as “Angels,” failure is a real possibility. So is disappointing the members of the gay community for whom “Angels” is not just a play but a testimony to an incredibly painful era. “It’s so important that our actors—gay and straight alike—it’s very important that they’re not playing gay,” said Laura C. Hirschberg...
...that it also allows philosophers less public than West or Žižek to bring their ideas to life. Butler, for example, known for being difficult on paper, emerges here even more engaging than West. A thinker in feminism, queer theory, and ethics, she shows up sporting a baggy leather jacket and an equally loose style of talking. Accompanied by Sunaura Taylor, the filmmaker’s disabled sister, Butler strolls around San Francisco considering traditional Western conceptions of a body—the pitfalls of having “an ideal morphology… [of] what...
...final scene’s a nod to online indie concert series Black Cab Sessions, and many scenes capture the band members in the middle of rehearsals and downtime, in hopes of emulating the free-wheeling performances captured by Paris-based La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows. Yet the band members never let their guard down—they’re always performing, even during candid moments, sprinting up and down hotel hallways, putting on both literal and figurative masks. Maybe it’s the old observer effect, but the viewer never gets a glimpse behind...
...atmosphere it exudes. “We wanted to use the Adams Pool Theatre, because it is an intimate space. We wanted the audience to feel the essence of the story,” says Odelia S. Younge ’11, one of the producers for the show. “It’s such a simple production; it’s really all in the words of the script. The stories speak for themselves. The play has a lot of power in that it is so simple.”Constructed from real interviews, case files...