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...Opening number “Don’t Wanna Sleep” set the tone, a sullen earworm that recalled a rowdy, hungover Billie Eilish, with Aerosmith-adjacent lyrics and stuttering, sexed-up declamation reminiscent of Fergie’...
...I learnt moves for “national dance day” with a local dance troupe at a studio in Columbia Heights and then stomped it out in a group performance at the Kennedy Center....
...The library has been designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and has raised a few eyebrows....
...He idolised the Broadway and Tin Pan Alley standards that were the bedrock of his work and paid tribute to vocalists who influenced him such as Billie Holiday and Mabel Mercer....
...Gifted on the saxophone and clarinet, he was good enough to play with the Woody Herman band and accompany the incomparable Billie Holliday....
...Maybe she meets a handsome, young software salesman in the taxi queue at Kennedy, they share a ride into town, green cards are discussed, they have a nice dinner and wander off into the night....
...Or “Bohemian Rhapsody”, or “Billie Jean”, or “Wonderwall”. That’s one from each of the last four decades of the last century. But where was the definitive anthem of the new millennium?...
...Zimbel Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon and both John and Jacqueline Kennedy are framed alongside images of city life in this retrospective of George S. Zimbel’s work....
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