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	<title>The Bagel And The Rat</title>
	<link>http://jonsobel.com</link>
	<description>A Reviewer-at-Large Goes 15 Rounds with New York City and the World</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Stars Honor Bill Withers and Our Time, an Artistic Home for People Who Stutter</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=353</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Music</category>
	<category>New York City</category>
	<category>Theater</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Possibly the most inspiring course I took in college was a study of W. B. Yeats. The professor, Jack Kelleher, was knowledgeable, but more important, he was passionate about the subject. But he had a severe stutter, and sometimes sitting in class listening to him lecture was a painful thing.
	Professor Kelleher&#39;s stutter vanished when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Review (NYC): Arthur Kopit&#8217;s Chamber Music and The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=351</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Theater</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Mortals Theater and Gray Lady Entertainment, Inc. are to be commended for giving these two obscure one-act plays by Arthur Kopit their first New York production. With strains of realism floating through absurdity, the plays document Kopit&#39;s early direction as a playwright. He became famous for other works, notably Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma&#39;s Hung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Review (NYC): Dirt</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=350</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Politics and world affairs</category>
	<category>Theater</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	There are two compelling reasons to see the new production of Dirt at Under St. Marks. First: after this important play&#39;s current run, it&#39;s off to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and who knows if or when it&#39;ll be back in New York. Second: Austrian-American actor Christopher John Domig&#39;s performance is one of those in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Review (NYC): Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=349</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Theater</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Shakespeare&#39;s history plays not only dramatized the lives and deaths of some of Britain&#39;s most legendary monarchs, they have also had some influence on the nature of those legends.  The playwright&#39;s versions of the likes of Prince Hal and Richard III are eternally bound up with the real histories of the personages they represent.
	Given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Review (NYC): Hostage Song</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=347</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Theater</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Recent years have witnessed some of the most nightmarish events you&#39;ll ever see on the TV news. The fates of some of the Western hostages taken by &#34;insurgents&#34; during the early years of the Iraq war would seem unlikely candidates for the musical stage.
	Hostage Song defies those odds.  Clay McLeod Chapman&#39;s taut script follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stad Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=348</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
	<category>New York City</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Took a walk over to the Hudson River today, and lo and behold, what do we discover right behind Chelsea Piers but a huge modern steel-hulled three-masted clipper ship, the Stad Amsterdam, moored there for a corporate event and open to the public.  All we had to do to board the ship was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Review: Rachel Taylor Brown - Half Hours with the Lower Creatures</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=346</link>
		<comments>http://jonsobel.com/?p=346#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Music</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Most singer-songwriters wouldn&#39;t start off a CD with a strange, more or less wordless, seven-minute space oddity of toy piano and the ambient sounds of a shopping mall.  But Rachel Taylor Brown isn&#39;t like most singer-songwriters, and Half Hours with the Lower Creatures isn&#39;t like most CDs.
	That opening track, &#34;Hemocult/I Care About You,&#34; may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creatures of New York, Pt. 3</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=344</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>General</category>
	<category>New York City</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	This edition of Creatures of New York is devoted to one very large creature.  Distantly related to the Great Blue Heron and the Whooping Crane, the Huge Honking Crane can be found in many cities throughout the world.  In light of the recent crane failures in New York and in Miami, it&#8217;s nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music in the Middle</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=343</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Music</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I know we&#8217;re living in Internet time, but this pic goes all the way back to last weekend (I know, shocking), at the John Scarpulla recording session at Tom White&#8217;s studio in Middleburgh, near Cobleskill, NY, in the Catskills region. That&#8217;s John with the guitar, and you can see me on the right through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Review (NYC): Almost An Evening by Ethan Coen, with F. Murray Abraham and Mark Linn-Baker</title>
		<link>http://jonsobel.com/?p=341</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Theater</category>
		<guid>http://jonsobel.com/?p=341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Big names go a long way. Multiple-Oscar winner Ethan Coen is so big right now, especially after No Country for Old Men, that success has seemed almost a foregone conclusion for his Off-Broadway debut as a playwright. (Foregone in New York, anyway, where we especially love our Coen Brothers for living here and not in [...]]]></description>
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