When You Wish Upon a Star . . .- July 15, 2008 THE WISHING YEAR A House, a Man, My Soul A Memoir of Fulfilled Desirehttp://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815867/AR2008071... Bach Festival Closes With Fitting Flourishes of Genius- July 15, 2008 To present a complete picture of Johann Sebastian Bach in an hour -- or even a "best of" -- would be impossible, but Sunday afternoon's Grace Church Bach Festival program provided a satisfying glimpse and a worthy conclusion to its week of concerts.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815864/AR2008071... David Banner's 'Story' Has Two Points of View- July 15, 2008 David Banner has always been driven by contradictory impulses.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815859/AR2008071... Venue Does Inscape Ensemble No Favors- July 15, 2008 Classical music offerings typically thin out in the summer, leading hungry music lovers to more out-of-the-way venues as they seek out what remains. The local Inscape Chamber Orchestra has inaugurated an offshoot series of smaller ensemble concerts at its home in the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815866/AR2008071... Motley Crue's Amplified Pyrotechnique- July 15, 2008 Just as a prosthetic limb might return the pleasures of walking to an amputee, so has stage technology allowed Motley Crue to keep going.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815860/AR2008071... CAROLYN HAX- July 15, 2008 Adapted from a recent online discussion: Dear Carolyn:http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815868/AR2008071... Quick Spins- July 15, 2008 NAS Nas When Nas announced last year that he would use a racial epithet as the title of his ninth studio album, it smelled like a cheap publicity ploy from a once-great rapper who no longer had much to say. Now that the album, an intense exploration of racial inequality in America, has arrived (sans...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815861/AR2008071... Bridge- July 15, 2008 "Millard is a sweet guy," a player at the club told me, "but his elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. We went to a pizza place yesterday, and he had his pizza cut into six slices because he said he wasn't hungry enough to eat eight."http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815870/AR2008070... Singles File- July 15, 2008 A weekly playlist for the listener with a one-track mind.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815862/AR2008071... Designs' Praises Are Sung at White House- July 15, 2008 First lady Laura Bush's annual reception for winners of the National Design Awards always brings out a stylish crowd and challenges White House pastry chef Bill Yosses to create a dessert with sizzle. At yesterday's brunch, while waiters popped the Chandon corks for the nine 2008 honorees who...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/print/style/index_xml/~3/335815857/AR2008071... |