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Confessions of an ex-go-go dancer
Sex object, or just another housewife? Confessions of an ex-go-go dancer
As the sweat pours down my fishnet stockings, these guys think they're gonna take me home and score, while I'm wondering if I can throw in a load of laundry before I heat up the leftover lasagna.
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Mendelssohn Club sings Clearfield and Fauré
The sum of Andrea Clearfield's parts
Andrea Clearfield's ambitiously sprawling Tse Go La is the latest fruit of the composer's musical field trips to Tibet and by far the most substantial: a fantastic amalgam of cross-cultural influences.
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Joseph Cedar's "Footnote' (2nd review)
Honor thy father
Joseph Cedar's Footnote is a savagely brilliant comedy of ideas that humanizes as prickly a set of personalities— Israel academics at the summit of Talmudic studies— as one could hope (or fear) to meet. It also raises significant issues of honor, authority and truth.
Footnote. A film directed by Joseph Cedar. At the Ritz Five, 220 Walnut St. and other Philadelphia venues. For show times, click here.
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Opera Company's "Manon Lescaut'
A vocal and visual knockout
The title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut taxes even seasoned professionals. With just three weeks' rehearsal, the student Michelle Johnson carried it off with aplomb. Sumptuous costumes helped, too.
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"Martha Marcy' and the truth about cults
Beyond ‘Helter-Skelter': The not-so-awful truth about cults
As a movie, Martha Marcy May Marlene is an extremely scary thriller. As an examination of the cult phenomenon, it's simplistic propaganda the likes of which I— an authority on cults— haven't seen in 30 years.
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Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore' by AVA
Donizetti meets Mussolini
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is a melodramatic comedy about love. Nic Muni's current production sets the story in Mussolini's Fascist Italy, where the stakes are life and death, not to mention damnation.
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Lyric Fest: Three operas for children
Opera for kids meets
‘Anxious Parent Syndrome'
Lyric Fest, run by three mothers, opted for a riskier format for its annual children's concert, introducing its young audience to three famous but abridged operas.
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Jan Baltzell at Schmidt-Dean Gallery
If it's abstract, why not call it Untitled?
Jan Baltzell's luminous abstractions lack descriptive titles, and rightly so. Instead of trying to figure out her meaning, just let yourself be carried off by her looped and tangled lines, smooth textures and juicy colors.
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"Chimera': DNA anomalies at Swarthmore
Cooking in the DNA kitchen
Is a little knowledge about DNA a dangerous thing? Chimera is a dizzyingly smart, awfully witty yet ultimately tragic play about a new medical phenomenon.
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Orchestra 2001 considers Bali (2nd review)
Flash and substance, by way of Bali
Orchestra 2001's recent Balinese music and dance program combined flash with substance, and crowd appeal with enlightenment— a rare achievement.
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