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Leonard Bernstein show at the Jewish museum: 'West Side' story and 'Radical Chic' too
Philly.com Musical Lenny is very much political Lenny and vice versa. Largely told through documents and artifacts, the exhibition contains a considerable amount of video of Lenny – conducting, talking, traveling about Israel and Europe. There are sound stations … |
Know Your Street Art: Bound Together – SF Weekly
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Know Your Street Art: Bound Together
SF Weekly Eggking, who's a fan of Carlin — along with others who had an anarchistic bent, including Lenny Bruce, John Lennon, Nina Simone, and Tupac Shakur — has volunteered at Bound Together since last summer. One of the store's many other volunteers helped … |
‘The Godfather’ at 49: The vendettas, tirades and real Mob threats behind the classic novel, movie – OregonLive.com
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'The Godfather' at 49: The vendettas, tirades and real Mob threats behind the classic novel, movie
OregonLive.com [My] editors didn't like the idea behind my next novel. It sounded like another loser. One editor wistfully remarked that if 'Fortunate Pilgrim' [his 1965 novel that had a mobster subplot] had only had a little more of that Mafia stuff in it maybe the … |
Student Comedy Award: London winner named – Chortle
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Student Comedy Award: London winner named
Chortle Alex Franklin, a 20-year-old Cambridge natural sciences undergraduate, won last night's Chortle Student Comedy award heat in London. He describes his stand-up as 'Incredibly surreal monologues, combining the deadpan comedy with heavy escalation and … |
How North Palm Beach Benjamin School student is fighting rare disorder – MyPalmBeachPost
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How North Palm Beach Benjamin School student is fighting rare disorder
MyPalmBeachPost “I was relieved,” says Conor, who shares his diagnosis with late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, pioneering comedian Lenny Bruce, freedom fighter and abolitionist Harriet Tubman and actress Nastassja Kinski. Late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain … |
The week ahead in LA theater, March 4-11: Pat Kinevane, ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ and more – Los Angeles Times
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The week ahead in LA theater, March 4-11: Pat Kinevane, 'Cambodian Rock Band' and more
Los Angeles Times I'm Lenny Bruce In this meticulously researched solo biography tracing the life and prosecution of the groundbreaking early 1960s comic provocateur, actor Ronnie Marmo and director Joe Mantegna offer subsequent generations not only a sense of who Bruce … |
Is Nato Green The Funniest Union Organizer In America (Or Cuba)? – Forward
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Is Nato Green The Funniest Union Organizer In America (Or Cuba)?
Forward Nato Green is a Jewish union organizer from San Francisco — currently living in Cuba — who also happens to be one of the Bay Area's most successful stand-up comics. He's toured with Hari Kondalobu, Janine Brito and CNN's W. Kamau Bell. He's been … |
Comedian Barry Crimmins dies at age 64 – EW.com
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Comedian Barry Crimmins dies at age 64
EW.com Comedian Barry Crimmins has died at the age of 64. In the late '70s, Crimmins founded Boston's Ding Ho Comedy Club, which helped launch the careers of many stand-ups, including Steven Wright, Denis Leary, and Dana Gould. Crimmins also played an … Comedian Barry Crimmins Dies at 64 Judd Apatow on Twitter: "Barry Crimmins was a compassionate, hilarious man who touched so many lives. He gave so … |
The Frame® | Audio: Revisiting Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ in the wake … – 89.3 KPCC
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The Frame® | Audio: Revisiting Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' in the wake …
89.3 KPCC A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts and entertainment produced by Southern California Public Radio. Host John Horn leads the conversation, accompanied by the nation's most plugged-in cultural journalists. Podcast · RSS · Become a … |
Musical satire puts hot-button societal issues in the spotlight – Houston Chronicle
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Musical satire puts hot-button societal issues in the spotlight
Houston Chronicle … but really picks up speed after World War II. Front and center are the songs of Tom Lehrer, the seemingly mild-mannered satirist whose droll, piano-based ditties scandalized '60s audiences – listen to the crowd's hysterical laughter on his 1965 … |