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“Our intention was something other than being famous. When you create art from that place, a song is going to connect with people.”
There are 170 recipes in King Solomon’s Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.
Lost Empress’ ambition is admirable, and while the over-the-top style gets away from itself, it’s lively and sometimes entertaining.
In 1957’s Pal Joey, Rita Hayworth makes an indelible impression as a screen siren, as sexy as in her ’40s heyday.
A local company has come to the thirst-quenching rescue with DRINKmelon, the industry’s first pure watermelon water.
Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.
George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny could be an evening of delight with a frisson of cerebral exercise.
Some people fled William Corbett’s bravura; others stayed, laughing.
I think of Bill when I hear from struggling young writers, desperate to get it “right” – and to be accepted and published and make a living in a ridiculously difficult field.
Although his choice of material doesn’t always work for me, for my money, Kurt Elling is the most important jazz vocalist of the last twenty years.

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