The News Review:
- Dancer: ‘Why take it away from us?’
- People hoofing all over the place
- Zoo Tiger Attacks Panama Plane Crash Bridge Collapses Holiday…
- Out & About
- Sooner or Later Candidates Will Surely Look Lost
Dancer: ‘Why take it away from us?’
St. Petersburg Times – Dec 26, 2007
She was mostly bedridden before she started coming to the tea dances two years ago. Now she is one of the more popular dancers at the Coliseum. "If my body would let me I would break-dance" she said. "This is my home. " Liquerman began attending after he moved to St. Petersburg from New York City afterhis wife died from breast cancer. He hadn't danced since he got married and had children more than 40 years earlier.
People hoofing all over the place
Toronto Star – Dec 26, 2007
There is money to be made for dancers in commercials live rock shows and music video. Ask Blake McGrath a finalist on the second season of So You Think You Can Dance and a dancer from Mississauga who has made it where it counts in Los Angeles. He was on TV again last January in an MTV series called Dancelife that chronicled just how tough it can be to break into the dance industry. McGrath has produced a DVD Dance Driven that has an instructional component. Once people see him spinning around the floor they’re dying to know how it’s done. Tap dancing is enjoying a renaissance too especially where tap shoes meet urban dance. Shawn Byfield and his company Funk Factory have introduced tap into hip-hop culture with shows and classes.
Zoo Tiger Attacks Panama Plane Crash Bridge Collapses Holiday…
CNN International – Dec 26, 2007
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DEBBIE HANSEN-BERNARD POSTCARD RECIPIENT: Jessie and I have been dancing up a storm here in that big dance hall in the sky. I ask big guy if I could sneak back and send some cards to my dance friends family and a few others. At first he said no. But at my insistence he finally said OK. (END VIDEO CLIP) HARRIS: Chet Finch always wanted the last laugh so he worked on the idea for some 15 years. He made plans with his barber to mail the cards… Paying for college lead to sleepless nights. Families forced to pull equity from their homes. A new price break is spelling some relief. CNN’s senior correspondent Allan Chernoff is here with a breakdown. Allan! Our favorite story of the morning so far. ALLAN CHERNOFF CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Tony I got to tell you as the father of twins just thinking about this topic scares me! My kids are in kindergarten right now! HARRIS: I’m there with you.
Out & About
St. Petersburg Times – Dec 26, 2007
Free with Rec card $3 without. Spice up your life: Create excitement on the dance floor when you learn how to salsa merengue and cha-cha at a beginner's Latin dance class from 7:45 to 8:45 p. every Wednesday at Largo's Southwest Complex 13120 Vonn Road. To register call (727) 518-3125. Peace vigil: 4:30 to 6 p… Call (727) 518-3016. Thursday Library fun: The Clearwater Public Library is offering a variety of programs for youth during winter break. Tricky Dogs a family-friendly circus-style dog act comes to the Countryside Library 2741 State Road 580 at 10:30 a. A High School Musical sing-along will invite the audience to sing to the movie at 2 p.
Sooner or Later Candidates Will Surely Look Lost
Washington Post – Dec 26, 2007
The hangdog image — and its opposite the smiling confident top-dog image — also suggests a seamlessness between the news of the campaign trail and the candidate’s emotional state. In many ways it reduces politicians to cartoons who seem to be dancing mindlessly to the tune of the polls now frowning and moping now giddy and upbeat. It also suggests that the media play an intimate role in this dance piping the tune. In fact the one thing the media almost never gain access to is the real emotional life of politicians and when newspapers or magazines or television suggest otherwise they run the risk of seeming self-aggrandizing. And yet the hangdog image is almost irresistible. All the hard-edged questioning in the world all the grilling at news conferences and televised debates may fail to knock the candidate off message. But a single image of a sad powerless depressed politician is enough to break through the kabuki makeup and get at the Shakespearean psychic meltdown that is supposedly just underneath the surface… And yet the hangdog image is almost irresistible. All the hard-edged questioning in the world all the grilling at news conferences and televised debates may fail to knock the candidate off message. But a single image of a sad powerless depressed politician is enough to break through the kabuki makeup and get at the Shakespearean psychic meltdown that is supposedly just underneath the surface. Which through the miracle of the short attention span disappears just as soon as the poll numbers go up again.