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Off The Wall Sessions – Ep. 12 – Tanya Morgan
One of my favorite groups, Tanya Morgan
Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76
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By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press Writer
DALLAS – Charlie Wilson, the fun-loving Texas congressman whose backroom dealmaking funneled millions of dollars in weapons toAfghanistan, allowing the country’s underdog mujahedeen rebels to beat back the mighty Soviet Red Army, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after having difficulty breathing after attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, she said.
Wilson represented Texas’ 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House from 1973 to 1996 and was known in Washington as “Good Time Charlie” for his reputation as a hard-drinking womanizer. He once called former congresswoman Pat Schroeder “Babycakes,” and tried to take a beauty queen with him on a government trip to Afghanistan.
Wilson, a Democrat, was considered both a progressive and a defense hawk. While his efforts to arm the mujahedeen in the 1980s were a success — spurring a victory that helped speed the downfall of the Soviet Union — he was unable to keep the money flowing after the Soviets left. Afghanistan plunged into chaos, creating an opening eventually filled by the Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida terrorists.
After the Sept. 11 attacks — carried out by al-Qaida terrorists trained in Afghanistan — the U.S. ended up invading the country it had once helped liberate.
“People like me didn’t fulfill our responsibilities once the war was over,” Wilson said in a September 2001interview with The Associated Press. “We allowed this vacuum to occur in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which enraged a lot of people. That was as much my fault as it was a lot of others.”
His efforts to help the Afghan rebels — as well as his partying ways — were portrayed in the movie and book “Charlie Wilson’s War.” In an interview with The Associated Press after the book was published in 2003, he said he wasn’t worried about details of his wild side being portrayed.
“I would remind you that I was not married at the time. I’m in a different place than I was in at the time and I don’t apologize about that,” Wilson said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that when he was at the CIA he knew Wilson, whom Gates said “was working tirelessly on behalf of the Afghan resistance fighting the Soviets.”
“As the world now knows, his efforts and exploits helped repel an invader, liberate a people, and bring the Cold War to a close. After the Soviets left, Charlie kept fighting for the Afghan people and warned against abandoning that traumatized country to its fate — a warning we should have heeded then, and should remember today,” Gates said in a written statement.
Charles Nesbitt Wilson was born June 1, 1933, in Trinity. He attended Sam Houston State University in Huntsville before earning his bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1956.
Wilson served as a Naval lieutenant between 1956-60, then entered politics by volunteering for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. He served in the Texas House and then in the Texas Senate before being elected to the U.S. House in 1972.
“Charlie was perfect as a congressman, perfect as a state representative, perfect as a state senator. He was a perfect reflection of the people he represented. If there was anything wrong with Charlie, I never did know what it was,” said Charles Schnabel Jr., who served for seven years as Wilson’s chief of staff in Washington and worked with Wilson when he served in the Texas Senate.
As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Wilson helped secure money for weapons and worked with then-CIA agents Gust L. Avrakotos and Mike Vickers to get them to the mujahedeen. The Soviets spent a decade battling the rebels before pulling the Red Army from Afghanistan in 1989. Two years later, its economy in ruins, the Soviet Union fell apart.
Vickers, now assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said Wednesday that Wilson was a “great American patriot who played a pivotal role in a world-changing event — the defeat of the Red Army in Afghanistan, which led to the collapse of communism and the Soviet empire.”
Longtime friend Buddy Temple, who was with Wilson when he collapsed Wednesday, said that despite Wilson’s reputation as a playboy, he was serious about representing east Texas, including helping to create the Big Thicket National Preserve — almost 100,000 acres of swamps, bogs and forests.
“Charlie was a giant. We have lost a giant. There won’t be another like him,” Temple said at a hospital news conference announcing Wilson’s death.
Wilson left politics in 1996, after he no longer found it any fun. He lobbied for a number of years before returning to Texas. In 2007, he had a heart transplant after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes an enlarged and weakened heart.
Schnabel said he had just been with Wilson a few weeks ago for the dedication of the Charlie Wilson chair for Pakistan studies at the University of Texas, Austin, a $1 million endowment. He said Wilson had been doing “very good” and said his former boss described himself as “a poster boy” for heart transplants.
Ogletree said Wilson is survived by his wife, Barbara, whom he married in 1999, and a sister.
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Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor and Suzanne Gamboa in Washington contributed to this report.
Michael Smith – Review
For the past week or so, KC had the Kansas City Restaurant Week (which ends today) which featured 40+ restaurants in the KC Metro area. This event was special because it allowed visitors to dine at higher end restaurants for a modest price of $15 for lunch and $30 dinner. What was even better was their commitment to donate 10% of the proceeds to Harvester of Kansas City.
I managed to participate in this awesome event by going to Michael Smith near downtown KC. The restaurant is located on the corner of 19th and Main, next to the chef and owner, Michael Smith’s other restaurant, Extra Virgin.
The food was AMAZING!! For starters, I enjoyed a roasted rabbit with gnocchi, the main course course was 8-hour roasted pork over rizzotto, followed by a coconut and raisin cake with ice cream. My dinner date enjoyed a deliciously tender fillet mignon with cream mash potatoes, followed by a flour-less chocolate cake. I may not be giving the menu justice in my description but it was truly a culinary experience.
Well….to have such an experience, you’re going to have to drop a pretty penny to eat there. This is the kind of place where appetizers start out at $15, but I will say you get your money’s worth.
With everything made to order, it’s important to give yourself a couple hours to taste this gastronomic event while sipping on a glass of wine or nice cocktail (I had a Maker’s Mark Old Fashioned)
Even though the event ends today, it doesn’t mean you can save up and splurge once in a while at one of these fine restaurants. Check out the Kansas City Restaurant Week website for all the restaurants that participated and definitely check out Michael Smith.
Peace.
Michael Smith – http://www.michaelsmithkc.com/
1900 Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri (64108)
Tele: 816.842.2202
Fax: 816.842.2206
Kansas City Restaurant Week – http://kansascityrestaurantweek.com/
Threadless – Tee for Haiti: Many Hands Make the Load Lighter
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BLUE POWER!!
. The white people came in and disrespected it looking for monetary gain. The character that eventually helps to defend the Na’vi finally understands what he was sent to do is wrong and stands up to the “machine”. This change of thought is what James Cameron is saying is what we (as in America) can be like if we actually thought about the purpose of the “wars” we are in, and how we should respect and embrace the cultures of other people around the world.- -Erick Richardson a.k.a. eRich
What’s your take on it? Let’s here from you….
Peace.
Near the end of the hit film “Avatar,” the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall, long-tailed alien.
Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, immoral humans against noble denizens of a faraway moon, “Avatar” is being criticized by a small but vocal group of people who allege it contains racist themes — the white hero once again saving the primitive natives.
Since the film opened to widespread critical acclaim three weeks ago, hundreds of blog posts, newspaper articles, tweets and YouTube videos have said things such as the film is “a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people” and that it reinforces “the white Messiah fable.”
The film’s writer and director, James Cameron, says the real theme is about respecting others’ differences.
In the film (read no further if you don’t want the plot spoiled for you) a white, paralyzed Marine, Jake Sully, is mentally linked to an alien’s body and set loose on the planet Pandora. His mission: persuade the mystic, nature-loving Na’vi to make way for humans to mine their land for unobtanium, worth $20 million per kilo back home.
Like Kevin Costner in “Dances with Wolves” and Tom Cruise in “The Last Samurai” or as far back as Jimmy Stewart in the 1950 Western “Broken Arrow,” Sully soon switches sides. He falls in love with the Na’vi princess and leads the bird-riding, bow-and-arrow-shooting aliens to victory over the white men’s spaceships and mega-robots.
Adding to the racial dynamic is that the main Na’vi characters are played by actors of color, led by a Dominican, Zoe Saldana, as the princess. The film also is an obvious metaphor for how European settlers in America wiped out the Indians.
Robinne Lee, an actress in such recent films as “Seven Pounds” and “Hotel for Dogs,” said that “Avatar” was “beautiful” and that she understood the economic logic of casting a white lead if most of the audience is white.
But she said the film, which so far has the second-highest worldwide box-office gross ever, still reminded her of Hollywood’s “Pocahontas” story — “the Indian woman leads the white man into the wilderness, and he learns the way of the people and becomes the savior.”
“It’s really upsetting in many ways,” said Lee, who is black with Jamaican and Chinese ancestry. “It would be nice if we could save ourselves.”
Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of the sci-fi Web site io9.com, likened “Avatar” to the recent film “District 9,” in which a white man accidentally becomes an alien and then helps save them, and 1984′s “Dune,” in which a white man becomes an alien Messiah.
“Main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color … (then) go beyond assimilation and become leaders of the people they once oppressed,” she wrote.
“When will whites stop making these movies and start thinking about race in a new way?” wrote Newitz, who is white.
Black film professor and author Donald Bogle said he can understand why people would be troubled by “Avatar,” although he praised it as a “stunning” work.
“A segment of the audience is carrying in the back of its head some sense of movie history,” said Bogle, author of “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films.”
Bogle stopped short, however, of calling the movie racist.
“It’s a film with still a certain kind of distortion,” he said. “It’s a movie that hasn’t yet freed itself of old Hollywood traditions, old formulas.”
Writer/director Cameron, who is white, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that his film “asks us to open our eyes and truly see others, respecting them even though they are different, in the hope that we may find a way to prevent conflict and live more harmoniously on this world. I hardly think that is a racist message.”
There are many ways to interpret the art that is “Avatar.”
What does it mean that in the final, sequel-begging scene, Sully abandons his human body and transforms into one of the Na’vi for good? Is Saldana’s Na’vi character the real heroine because she, not Sully, kills the arch-villain? Does it matter that many conservatives are riled by what they call liberal environmental and anti-military messages?
Is Cameron actually exposing the historical evils of white colonizers? Does the existence of an alien species expose the reality that all humans are actually one race?
“Can’t people just enjoy movies any more?” a person named Michelle posted on the Web site for Essence, the magazine for black women, which had 371 comments on a story debating the issue.
Although the “Avatar” debate springs from Hollywood’s historical difficulties with race, Will Smith recently saved the planet in “I Am Legend,” and Denzel Washington appears ready to do the same in the forthcoming “Book of Eli.”
Bogle, the film historian, said that he was glad Cameron made the film and that it made people think about race.
“Maybe there is something he does want to say and put across” about race, Bogle said. “Maybe if he had a black hero in there, that point would have been even stronger.”
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Jesse Washington covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press.
[E]lemental Wish List: Google Nexus One
Google has finally released their first piece of hardware: Google Nexus One. As of right now you can buy the phone unlocked and untied to a service for $529, or start a 2-year contract with T-Mobile and get the phone for $179. I love my iPhone but my eye is wandering. Hopefully soon it’ll become compatible with the AT&T network, but I imagine that won’t happen till their contract with Apple runs out.
I can’t afford to make a bad decision right now by buying this phone….
Peace.
Current TV Presents – Vanguard: Cocaine Mafia
This is a deep and chilling story from Current TV. Take a few to check it out.
Golf in shock as Tiger takes indefinite break
By STUART CONDIE, AP Sports Writer
LONDON (AP)—Tiger Woods’ decision to take “an indefinite break” to repair his marriage was greeted with surprise, bemusement and even relief Saturday as golfers, fans and commentators contemplated the immediate future of a sport without its biggest draw.
John Daly sympathized as the worldwide media continued to pile up accusations of infidelity, Annika Sorenstam lamented a family tragedy and Colin Montgomerie noted dryly that golf’s big prizes just became a little more accessible.
These are tumultuous times for golf after Friday’s announcement by its No. 1 player that he is taking time out following two weeks of allegations of extramarital affairs. Woods and his wife, Elin, have been married five years and have a 2-year-old daughter and a 10-month-old son.
“There was an aura, and that wall, if you like, has been split slightly,” said Montgomerie, Europe’s 2010 Ryder Cup captain. “There are cracks, and I feel that it gives us more opportunity of winning these big events now.”
Next year could have been one of the biggest in Woods’ career, with three of the four majors played at courses on which he has triumphed by large margins.
Instead, golf is preparing for another spell without its biggest superstar. Woods’ absence from the PGA Tour for much of last season because of reconstructive knee surgery led to a drop in television ratings of 50 percent.
“Indefinite is a scary word,” former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy said. “That’s not good for us. But I’m sure he’ll get it worked out.”
Woods so far seems intent on doing so without help from his fellow professionals.
“He just didn’t want to talk to anybody,” Daly said at the Australian PGA on Saturday. “I’m in shock over it all, a lot of our players are in shock. I’m not happy with the way some of our players have responded—that’s their way of getting back because they know they can’t beat him at golf.
“They always say there is no one bigger in golf than the game itself. But Tiger is.”
Craig Parry was finishing his third round at the Australian PGA when he heard about Woods’ decision to step aside.
A friend of Woods who lives nearby in Windermere, Fla., Parry played alongside him for the first two rounds of last month’s Australian Masters in Melbourne—Woods’ final tournament before his car crash and subsequent accusations of infidelity.
“What he did was totally wrong,” Parry said. “And he’s got no one to blame except himself. You can look at other people, but he’s the one who’s got to look in the mirror.”
And in the newspapers, Saturday brought a fresh round of headlines all over the world.
Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport featured a cartoon showing a golf bag containing six bare female legs in high heels and two clubs.
German tabloid Bild continued to print salacious details of the scandal, but added on its Web site that it hoped “Tiger is as successful as on the golf course” as he tries to repair his marriage.
“For years to come he will be a figure of fun to comedians great and small,” said Peter Allis, the BBC’s chief golf commentator for more than 30 years. “We were told for years that his father stood by the side of the green throwing pebbles in buckets of water, shouting and blowing whistles to make him oblivious to all these noises.
“Now we have to see how strong his mind is.”
Although Michelle Wie refused to comment at the Dubai Ladies Masters on what she said was a private matter for Woods, former top-ranked LPGA star Sorenstam told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet she was saddened by the news.
“I think this whole thing is tragic,” she said. “We used to train together, but both myself and Tiger have been very busy lately and therefore haven’t seen, or heard from each other as frequently.”
Daly, who has been married four times, cautioned Woods and his wife, Elin, to remain together for the right reason. He said Woods should consider a television interview to limit damage to his image.
“If I was him, I’d go to Oprah, I would get on her show, tell the truth and it doesn’t matter what the media say any more, because it’s all out in the open,” Daly said.
Veteran British publicist Max Clifford agreed.
“Hopefully he can go on something like Oprah, maybe even with his wife, to show that they’re making a real go of it,” Clifford said. “The clever move would be for him to say, ‘I’m coming back when Elin tells me the time is right.”’
For now, Woods is communicating publicly only through carefully worded statements on his Web site.
Earlier this year, he became the first athlete to surpass $1 billion in career earnings, according to Forbes magazine. His sponsors include Nike, Gillette, AT&T, Gatorade and Tag Heuer.
Nike, which signed a multiyear contract with Woods in 2006, is standing by the player.
“He is the best golfer in the world and one of the greatest athletes of his era,” Nike spokeswoman Beth Gast said in a statement. “We look forward to his return to golf. He and his family have Nike’s full support.”
And it isn’t just golfers who are thinking about Woods.
“One thing people don’t understand is that we’re human,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said in Miami. “You’re not born with a menu on how not to do things wrong. You’re going to make mistakes like every human being. It’s just unfortunate that you’re in the public eye so much and a lot of people get hurt by it.”
Bobcats forward Stephen Jackson wished Woods the best.
“Sometimes you just got to take time out to reflect on what’s more important, and that’s family,” he said after Charlotte’s 104-85 loss in San Antonio.
AP Sports Writer Dennis Passa in Coolum, Australia, AP Sports Writer Andrew Dampf in Rome, AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami and Associated Press Writer Paul J. Weber in San Antonio contributed to this report.
This American Life – Episode 395: Middle of the Night
This is an awesome show that I’ve recently been following and really need to support. I need to submit my donation quick before Ira Glass gets me. Anyway, This American Life is like MTV’s True Life for the radio in a few ways, but much more honest, personal, and credible really.
This episode I’m posting is really a good, thoughtful and funny view of people who operate better in the dark. They’re the night shift people you never see but know exist. I’ll let Ira do the intro. I don’t think I can give it justice.
This American Life – Middle of the Night Listen Now
Enjoy!
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Stories of people who are up while the rest of us are sleeping—some for work, some for play, and some for a free sandwich. Including the story of a woman walking alone at night, who encounters another woman walking alone at night, for the exact same reason, and a whole population of people haggling over the cost of oranges at 3 in the morning.
Prologue.
Host Ira Glass remembers one of his favorite jobs, as a temp typist working at night in New York City. And we hear from a group of teenagers who create unique fun during the middle of the night when none of their classmates are awake. (4 minutes)
Act One. Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?
Adam Davidson and Chana Joffe-Walt from Planet Money head to the Hunts Point Market in the Bronx, a bustling area of vegetable and fruit commerce that only comes alive at night. Planet Money is a co-production of NPR News and This American Life. (13 minutes)
Song: “Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears,” The Monkees
Act Two. It Was a Dark and Smoky Night.
Jenifer Hixson tells the story of walking alone at night, and meeting a woman who was out for the very same reason. Jenifer performed the story live in front of an audience at the storytelling series The Moth. (9 1/2 minutes)
Act Three. The Early Bird Catches the Chicken.
When a new Chick-Fil-A sandwich shop opens, people line up 24 hours in advance to be one of the hundred people to get a free year’s worth of chicken sandwiches. Comedian/musician Dave Hill and writer Shaina Feinberg headed down to Orlando, Florida to experience the night before an opening. (12 1/2 minutes)
Act Four. Midnight Run.
Producer Nancy Updike speaks with Specialist Lindsay Freeland of the Oregon National Guard about the trips Freeland takes at night in Iraq, providing security for convoys heading to forward operating bases. (6 minutes)
Song: “First Breath after Coma,” Explosions in the Sky
Act Five. Bump in the Night.
Producer Jane Feltes talks with her parents about staying up at night with a sick child—specifically, after Jane had a serious injury when she was six. (9 1/2 minutes)
Song: “Nighttime,” Stylophone
Fela! – The Musical
Bill T. Jones – Director & Choreographer
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I need to find a way to see this. A musical about Fela??? I wonder who will star in the movie…
Check out the article from Associated Press.
Enjoy!
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NEW YORK – In the run-up to the Broadway opening of “Fela!” — Bill T. Jones’ new musical — one man sat through every single preview performance and hated being there every minute.
That would be Bill T. Jones.
“For the most part, if somebody wiggles or looks at their watch or, heaven forbid, somebody leaves, it’s awful,” the director and choreographer confesses from a restaurant booth an hour or so before he must attend yet another performance as a quality-control monitor.
Don’t get him wrong: Jones loves it when the audience cheers or claps. But there are always a few folks who sit unmoved, arms crossed, sour. Jones, unnoticed among the throng, grits his teeth.
“I. Don’t. Like. It,” he says, deliberately enunciating each word in disgust. “It’s part of my spiritual struggle because I just can’t stand it. I want people to enjoy it, but I don’t want to know what you’re thinking.”
So far, fans have outnumbered the sourpusses as Jones puts the finishing touches on the frenetic biography of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who died in 1997 at age 58.
Originally appearing off-Broadway last year, “Fela!” won raves for its energetic dancing and infectious Afrobeat music — a fusion of jazz, R&B, rock and soul music — all culled from Kuti’s catalog.
“You have to listen to it with your head and your hips. Maybe that’s true of much African music but definitely his music,” says Jones, who co-conceived and wrote the book with Jim Lewis.
Under Jones’ direction, the stately Eugene O’Neill Theatre has been transformed into Kuti’s performance place in Lagos called “The Shrine.” The actor playing Kuti performs as the swaggering master of ceremonies, introducing the musical numbers and narrating his remarkable life.
The audience can’t help but get sucked in: Dancers spill out into the audience, a live band keeps up a head-bobbing groove and theatergoers are twice invited to participate — getting up and dancing at one point and singing back to Kuti at another. Jones loves it that Broadway crowds obey, no matter now silly they feel.
“Isn’t it wonderful that it’s possible? And isn’t it wonderful that if you create the right environment and make people feel safe and loosen up, that they will become a group?”
Figuring out a Broadway audience is still a new challenge for Jones, 57, a dapper former dancer who has maintained his lithe elegance and slender build. Known as a proudly experimental choreographer who explores complex themes in his dance, he is gingerly feeling his way in a more traditional medium.
“I’m trying to make a good show that appeals to the widest number of people,” he says. “However, I do want people to say, ‘You know what? I haven’t seen anything like it.’ That’s the risk — how much freedom can you have?”
Jones seems to have struck the right balance. The audience at a recent preview included a mix of graying 1960s radicals, sleek arty types, YouTube hipsters and Africans who remember Kuti. The show has also bewitched high-beam names such as Jay-Z, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, who have joined the producing team.
Jones, who studied classical ballet and modern dance, performed worldwide as a soloist until forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982 with his late partner Arnie Zane, starting out as a brash duo doing “these odd grappling duets.”
He has worked prodigiously since then, creating over 100 works, including tackling racism and faith in “Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land,” exploring those with AIDS in “Still/Here” and creating a hip-hop adaptation of an Aeschylus play in “The Seven.” He recently completed “Fondly We Hope … Fervently Do We Pray,” a touring dance-theater piece to celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
Stephen Hendel, who co-concieved “Fela!” with Jones and Lewis, says Jones is a man of “fierce genius” and “the most brilliant person I’ve ever met.”
“He’s never satisfied with the easy answer. He’s never satisfied with his first thought or his second thought or his eighth thought,” says Hendel. “He’s able to see things that an ordinary person can’t see.”
Jones has won nearly every major dance award — including a Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and a Tony in 2007 for his choreography of “Spring Awakening.” He was also a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipient in 1994.
“I’ve been given a lot of awards and so on, but I’m certainly never an artist who sits back on his laurels,” he says. “I always have questions about what I’m doing.”
Asked what links his pieces — what can an audience expect from a typical Bill T. Jones production? — and Jones narrows his eyes just a fraction before taking the bait.
“You might see an interest in language. You might see diversity on the stage. You might find there’s a preoccupation with justice, even with its negative — the absence of justice. You might see memory, repetitions — things that you hear in one scene suddenly show up unexpectedly in another scene,” he says.
“And you’ll see a lovely and interesting design — always. And you’ll see a very energetic performance.”
This year, Jones is celebrating his company’s 25th anniversary and he marvels that when it began, he and his partner were dismissed as just the flavor of the month.
“Well, lo and behold, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is still around. Who knows what tomorrow brings, but there’s something there,” he says. “You never tempt the gods by thinking you’re going to have a next year.”
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