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| Latin Pop Group Maná Draws Adoring Crowds Thu, 17 May 2012 00:40:04 GMT Maná, a rock group that sings only in Spanish, has been attracting fans, both recent immigrants and others, in the United States for decades. |
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| Critic’s Notebook: The Centennial of Gil Evans Brings Two Big Jazz Events Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:06 GMT Two events and an album commemorate the pioneering bandleader and arranger Gil Evans, born 100 years ago this week. |
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| Lindsay Lohan and Her ‘Liz & Dick’ Role Thu, 17 May 2012 00:53:01 GMT The producer of “Liz & Dick,” a television film about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, says some of Taylor’s friends aren’t happy about his casting Lindsay Lohan. |
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| Critic’s Notebook: The Video Game Fez Is Complex by Design Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:06 GMT Fez, an indie video game, delights in complexity and confusion. |
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| Books of The Times: Edward Klein’s Invective-Laden Obama Book Thu, 17 May 2012 07:42:37 GMT Janet Maslin asks, Who is the real amateur in this pairing: the subject, President Obama, or the author, Edward Klein? |
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| Minneapolis Tussles Over Peavey Plaza Thu, 17 May 2012 01:30:07 GMT Preservationists and Minneapolis city planners are at odds over a proposal to demolish and replace a Modernist public plaza opened in 1975. |
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| ArtsBeat: A Deadly Night in the Boxing Ring Is Grist for an Evening at the Opera Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:47 GMT Opera Theater of St. Louis and Jazz Theater of St. Louis have commissioned an opera by Terence Blanchard based on the life of the boxer Emile Griffith, whose battering of Benny Paret in 1962 resulted in Paret's death. |
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| ArtsBeat: Don't Stop the Press! 'Newsies' Run Is Now Open-Ended Wed, 16 May 2012 21:30:03 GMT "Newsies," the hit Broadway musical from Disney, is doing far too well to close in August as planned. |
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| ArtsBeat: Broadway Musical 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' to Close Wed, 16 May 2012 21:32:43 GMT The musical, about a team of drag performers journeying through remote Australia in a camping (and camp) bus, will play its final show at the Palace Theater on June 24. |
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| Arts & Leisure: Bethany Cosentino With New Sound on ‘The Only Place’ Wed, 16 May 2012 20:23:03 GMT Bethany Cosentino is no longer hiding on the new Best Coast album “The Only Place.” |
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| Arts & Leisure: Steve Kazee of ‘Once’ Knows About Pain Wed, 16 May 2012 15:44:24 GMT Steve Kazee, whose Broadway role in “Once” is that of a man who is coming off a breakup and whose mother has died, is coming off breakup and lost his mother last month. |
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| Dish Network’s Auto Hop Cuts Ads and Causes Tremors at TV Upfronts Thu, 17 May 2012 07:41:21 GMT As with past technological threats, network executives are closing ranks against a Dish Network device that undermines the broadcast business model. |
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| Jean Craighead George, Children’s Author, Dies at 92 Thu, 17 May 2012 03:47:18 GMT Ms. George’s home held a menagerie, as did her books, most of them written for children and young adults. |
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| Chuck Brown, Pioneer of ‘Go-Go’ Funk Music, Dies at 75 Thu, 17 May 2012 01:28:15 GMT Mr. Brown styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation’s capital. |
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| Music Review: Sheera Ben-David at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency Thu, 17 May 2012 01:43:03 GMT Sheera Ben-David’s new show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency delivers songs about romantic afterglow and isolation. |
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| Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer Amid the Art at Dia:Beacon Thu, 17 May 2012 02:00:06 GMT The choreographer Yvonne Rainer, a veteran of the Judson Dance Theater movement, brings her classic works to the visually enriching Dia:Beacon. |
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| Music Review: Pit Stop Players Perform ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ Thu, 17 May 2012 01:43:03 GMT The Pit Stop Players, an ensemble of musicians who often play in theater orchestra pits, performed on Monday at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Midtown Manhattan. |
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| Theater Review: ‘Man and Superman’ at the Irish Repertory Theater Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:54 GMT The Irish Repertory Theater adaptation of “Man and Superman” has winnowed the George Bernard Shaw play to two acts from four yet retains Shaw’s wit and animation. |
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| Music Review: New York Continuo Collective at St. Luke’s Church Thu, 17 May 2012 01:00:06 GMT Scenes from Monteverdi’s operas were given a reverent performance by the New York Continuo Collective, an ensemble dedicated to early Baroque music. |
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| Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at Joyce Theater Thu, 17 May 2012 04:19:42 GMT Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is offering a triple bill at the Joyce Theater. |
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| Television Review: ‘Birth Moms’ and ‘Obese and Expecting’ on TLC Thu, 17 May 2012 01:49:02 GMT Two reality specials examine pregnant women with different struggles: some are obese, and some choose to part with their child. |
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| Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Giselle’ Thu, 17 May 2012 01:30:07 GMT The American Ballet Theater opened its run at the Metropolitan Opera House with Kevin McKenzie’s staging of “Giselle.” |
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| Bridge: Which Bridge Expert is the Best Pianist? Thu, 17 May 2012 02:00:06 GMT Eric Rodwell and Ron Smith come to mind. However, surely the title belongs to Augie Boehm. |
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| Breaking Conductors’ Down by Gesture and Body Part Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:00:08 GMT Demystifying the movements of conductors, with the help of seven top practitioners, including Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic. |
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| The Week Ahead: May 13 — 19 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:34:59 GMT A selection of cultural events. |
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| Life of a ‘Salesman’ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:52:26 GMT Charles Isherwood leads an online discussion about Arthur Miller’s classic play. |
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| Special Section: Museums Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:19:58 GMT From art classes taught by artists to programs to fight childhood obesity, education is a growing mission at museums. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.