This Sunday, the Maui Pops Orchestra, along with Broadway greats Joan Hess and Kirby Ward, will pay homage to the 1930s in this year’s Broadway Pops Dancing and Romancing production. Classics from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern will serve as this year’s rhythm and movement inspirations. $15-$50. 3pm. half-price 18 & under (In $30-$50 sections.) Maui Arts and … [Read more...] about This Sunday, Jan. 19: Broadway Pops: “Dancing and Romancing” @MauiArtsCulture
November
Toilet News and Weird Death and Animal Sacrifice
SOMETHING IN THE AIR Is the signature smell of Texas A&M University more “Italian lemon, bergamot and iced pineapple” (that open into “a body of vivid florals, raw nutmeg and cinnamon”) or more “bat feces” and “chilifest stink”? The two commentaries were contrasted in a November Wall Street Journal report on the introduction of Masik Collegiate Fragrances’ Texas A&M cologne … [Read more...] about Toilet News and Weird Death and Animal Sacrifice
Vice Ministry Of Beer and Informal Georgia Sobriety Tests and Least Competent Criminals
FAMILY OF MAN The notorious white separatist Craig Cobb is currently soliciting like-skinned people to move to his tiny town of Leith, N.D. (pop. 16), to create a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but at the urging of a black TV host submitted to a DNA test in November to “prove” his lineage–and turned up 14 percent black (“Sub-Saharan African”). He has vowed to try other DNA tests … [Read more...] about Vice Ministry Of Beer and Informal Georgia Sobriety Tests and Least Competent Criminals
The Fragrance of War and Great Art and The Harbor For No One
FRAGRANCE OF WAR A cosmetics company in Gaza recently began selling a fragrance dedicated to victory over Israel and named after the signature M-75 missile that Hamas has been firing across the border. “The fragrance is pleasant and attractive,” said the company owner, “like the missiles of the Palestinian resistance.” It comes in masculine and feminine varieties, at premium … [Read more...] about The Fragrance of War and Great Art and The Harbor For No One
Brave Pigeon Warriors and Drunk College Students and Radical Publications
NEEDING A LIFT Gary Medrow, 68, has periodically surfaced in News of the Weird since 1991 for his unique behavior of using a false identity to persuade Milwaukee-area strangers over the phone to lift other strangers off the ground–behavior for which he has occasionally been jailed and ordered to psychiatric care. After a recent period of calm, Medrow slipped in November and was … [Read more...] about Brave Pigeon Warriors and Drunk College Students and Radical Publications