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Out of the Furnace
"Out of the Furnace," about two suffering brothers (Christian Bale and Casey Affleck) in Pennsylvania steel country. hits some of the same notes as "The…
"Out of the Furnace," about two suffering brothers (Christian Bale and Casey Affleck) in Pennsylvania steel country. hits some of the same notes as "The…
The makers of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" have good intentions, but they don't effectively dramatize what they think makes their subject great.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
An update from Steve James regarding his documentary about Roger, "Life Itself."
Steve James of Kartemquin Films ("Hoop Dreams") is working on a documentary about Roger based on his memoir "Life Itself."
Gerardo Valero sees the potential for a good remake in "Escape from New York."
Pablo Villaça offers his perspective on "The Great Beauty."
Gerardo Valero sees the potential for a good remake in "Escape from New York."
Pablo Villaça offers his perspective on "The Great Beauty."
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The new co-production from three cable networks doesn't give them much bang for their bucks.
Some women sell their bodies out of need. Some because they like the money or the independence. Angelina, the 18-year-old subject of "About Cherry," is the first I've encountered who does it out of absentmindedness and a vague narcissism. Here is a movie that suggests prostitution is something that just sort of happens to you, like Lyme disease.
Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw) is a Long Beach teenager who lives unhappily with an alcoholic mother (Lili Taylor) and works in a Laundromat, doing (ding! plot point!) other people's dirty laundry. Her boyfriend, a drummer in a rock band, suggests she can pick up a few hundred bucks by posing for nude photos. Fun fact: Boyfriends in rock bands are almost always drummers, because it's easier for them to make eye contact than the other musicians.
Angelina takes the job, loses her laundry and seems about as affected as if a friend had snapped her with an iPhone. When the boyfriend sees the photos and is disturbed, she leaves Long Beach and travels to San Francisco with her BFF Andrew (Dev Patel), who she keeps around as sort of a mascot. She pets him, feeds him and lets him sleep in her bed. Some might find this a cruel sexual temptation. I suspect Angelina is so dim-witted, she doesn't notice when she's nude, and it never occurs to her that Andrew may have a crush.
In San Francisco, we follow her up, or down, the ladder of the porn industry, as she progresses passively from nude to girl-girl to boy-girl. The money gets better. It doesn't occur to her that she has become a prostitute. She has sex with strangers for money, but protests "this is my job." A wise old man in London named Henry Togna once suggested to me that his neighbor, the Duchess of Duke Street, among her many other accomplishments, ran a bordello. "Henry!" his wife protested. "You make her sound like a madam!" His reply: "Sex for cash, m'dear. That's my definition."
Angelina, now known professionally as Cherry, begins to work with Margaret (Heather Graham), a lesbian director who takes one look at her through the viewfinder and experiences true lust. You may remember Heather Graham as Roller Girl in "Boogie Nights." It's heartening to see that she has had such professional success.
In a sex club, Angelina meets a slick-taking lawyer named Francis (James Franco), who seems sort of nice until he turns her on to cocaine. The introduction of drugs is usually a crucial turning point in such stories, driving the heroine into degradation. In Angelina's case, she seems to like cocaine well enough, but it doesn't seem to make much of an impression. Here is a girl who needs to pay more attention.
There is a subplot you'll miss if you blink. Margaret has a girlfriend of several years named Jillian (Diane Farr), who grows jealous of Angelina, throws a tantrum and walks out. This event has no emotional weight. None of the romantic liaisons convey any conviction — save perhaps poor Andrew's celibate crush on Angelina, which now drives him to masturbate while looking at her hard-core videos. She walks in on him while he's doing that, explodes in anger and screams: "You love me — just not enough to jerk off to somebody else!"
Now this is a line of dialogue that needs a profound book written about it. Would she be less jealous if he had been watching porn starring somebody else? Why? Given her line of work, shouldn't she be complimented that with all the porn out there, he chose her? Angelina seems to be disconnected from her body, her self, her work and its consequences. That's one reason "About Cherry" is such an oddly passive and distant film. If this poor sap of a girl has no other reason to sell herself, shouldn't she at least care about the money? She doesn't even seem to notice it much, except that it grows larger.
Prostitution can be a fascinating occupation, allowing personal and financial independence and the kind of entre into the lives of strangers ordinarily available only to doctors, police officers, clergymen and psychiatrists. Prostitutes have inspired some of the most unforgettable characters in fiction. As for all of its effect on Angelina, she might as well have saved herself the wear and tear and stayed in the laundry.
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Monroeville manager suspended by council, could be fired in January
By Kyle LawsonMonroeville officials will determine in January whether they should fire municipal Manager Lynette McKinney, who was suspended with pay last week by council. Three of the four council members who attended the special meeting — Jim Johns, Steve Duncan and …
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Eastern Area wrestling tournament a big start to wrestling season
For 20 high school wrestling teams, including Gateway and Plum, the journey through the 2013-14 season kicks off this weekend at the 36th annual Eastern Area Invitational Wrestling Tournament. "Every year, the tournament is challenging and a great barometer for …More Gateway Sports

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Q & A With Sara Ramirez
by Steve Marsi at .For years, Sara Ramirez was the actress whom Broadway insiders consistently pegged for breakout success. She found that success, winning a Tony Award for her role as the Lady in the Lake in Spamalot.
After guest starring as Callie last Spring, Sara was promoted to full-time cast member this summer.
Recently, Ramirez spoke to New York Magazine's Jada Yuan about finally living large on TV. Here's the interview:
New York Magazine: They've signed you up for the full year, so clearly things are going to work out with George.
Sara Ramirez: I wouldn't be so sure. I know they're keeping me around, but I don't know if it's for George.
New York Magazine: Were you a fan of the show before you signed on?
Sara Ramirez: Oh, yes! As a Latin person, I was really proud to see the ethnic people on the show. I thought, Wow, there are no color limits. Nobody's making comments about how there are African-Americans on the show and an Asian on the show. However, I did think, Where's the Latin person?
Sara Ramirez: You do run across a lot of people who are extremely invested in that story line. Obviously, I've heard some negative stuff.
New York Magazine: You joined the show in the middle of the second season. Did you feel like an outsider?
Sara Ramirez: The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you're in scenes with. It's not like you're all running around the set together. So if you're going to hang out together, you kind of have to make an effort. And I think people have families, people have lives.
New York Magazine: Were you beginning to think you'd be doing theater forever?
Sara Ramirez: I'd been in New York for about 12 years, working my butt off. I just went where the work was, and because of my voice, that was Broadway. But I'd grown disillusioned with the theater scene. I'm 5'9", and people didn't know where to put me, a tall Latin woman. They were like, "Well, you can sing really good and you can act okay, but you're not black and you're not white. We just don't know who to cast you as."
New York Magazine: Was there pressure in going from stage to TV to change your appearance?
Sara Ramirez: Not at all. I actually gained a lot of weight when I started to do Grey's Anatomy. Doing eight theater shows a week, girl, is such a workout. But with TV, you're, like, sitting in your trailer waiting to go to the set. And there's catering and craft service every place you look.
New York Magazine: Between you and America Ferrera on Ugly Betty, there's a mini-boom for curvier, "real" Latin women.
Sara Ramirez: Absolutely. I've spoken to America several times at events about how funny it is that we're on TV, and how cool it is to represent a group of women who aren't stick-thin. I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. There's a lot of men out there who do.
New York Magazine: Now that you've dealt with both, which fans are more rabid, Monty Python fans or Grey's Anatomy fans?
Sara Ramirez: Monty Python. They show up in costume.
Steve Marsi is the Managing Editor of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Google+ or email him here.
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Like I said before, REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES. She's the HOTTEST looking woman on the show. And no I'm not related to her.
I think Sara is a HOTTIE...A FOX...FINE LOOKING WOMAN. Any idiot who think she needs to lose weight doesn't know what a real woman look like or feels like. REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, NOT SKIN AND BONE.
I think Sara Ramirez does an absolutley AMAZINGG job playing Callie. She is def one of the best characters on the show!! I love that you are representing Latina's in such a positive light!!
Keep it up girlll!!
Dude. Sara ramirez has soo much talent and I love the diversityh she adds to the show. And I deff think she's the hottest girl.
Sara is HOT, I'm pretty in love (in that TV sense) I would be delighted to play DR with her any day...
What I like about how they write Callie's character, is they don't make a big deal about her curves, they don't treat her as "the big woman", she's just another sexy, hot female, this show shows all the different types of sexy bodys-there's skinny like Meredith, or toned like Cristina, busty and curvy like Izzy, curvy like Callie, and sort of toned and slim like Addison. And they all look great! :)
And I thought the scene with her dancing in her underwear was awesome!!
Okay first of all, I think she and Addison were/are the hottest women on the show, or maybe Izzy too, I dunno. but either way, callie is one of the most gorgeous ones, she is sexy and curvy, and a beautiful face.
Second, if you don't like her curves, that's cool, it's personal taste. but she doesn't "NEED" to lose weight, it's not her RESPONSIBILITY, it's none of our business how she looks, it's up to her, she's not a little toy for us to control. if people told me to lose weight, i'd tell them to piss off, it's HER body, just cause she's on tv, doesn't mean we own her appearance!!
You people are crazy if you think she needs to loose weight. Sara, you are georgous! You look healthy! What REAL women should be like!
I've LOVED Callie from the start.When GA first started I wasn't really into it, but when Sara came on the show I couldn't bare to miss it.Whoever thinks she should lose weight is insane!She's beautiful the way she is!!!And her character is awesome!!!She's strong,independant,beautiful,sexy,and a damn good dancer!When she danced in her underwear on national television, I think was the most courageous thin EVER!!!Especially scince people think she needs to lose weight, but she still did it, like Idon't give a damn what anybody says I feel comfortable in my own skin!!!I don't like Callie and George together because you've can tell he doesn't feel the same way she does, and I'm sure she can do better!I also love Callie because she can stand up for herself & she can also be compassionate.
Oh wow!! To the person who left the first comment nikki i think it was. How could you think someone should definately loose weight to look good isnt being judgemental!!! What planet do you live on?? If you havent noticed more and more beautifull fuller figured women are now on our T.V screens and i think it takes a very strong and grounded woman to work in a industry that is so obsessed and dominated by the size 0-5 woman, so for her to still be able to hold strong to her selfbeliefs in such a industry is inspiring!! Who cares what you think or what your perception of beauty is if you cant see that Sara Ramirez(Callie) is beautiful the way she is than maybe u need to see a eye specialist or a neurologist!!!


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Photos: TOC's Winter Warm Up Party at Chop Shop
In the race for ugliest holiday sweater there really are no winners, but that didn't stop our readers from showing up in a variety of appalling sweaters, accented with tinsel, jingle bells and more at our Winter Warm Up party on December 17 at Chop Shop. Guests enjoyed a night of holiday cocktails, including the Ciroc Amaretto Winter Living, Bulleit Moretti Manhattan and Chamomile Don Julio Punch crafted by mixologist De Los Monteros. While TOC's own DJs Jacques Jamz kept the party going, guests snacked on flourless chocolate cake, homemade Minelli sausage and shrimp ceviche.
Know your bartender: Paul McGee at Three Dots and a Dash
Paul McGee is one of the most recognizable bartenders in the city, so it was definitely time to sit down and chat with him for our Know Your Bartender series. The Three Dots and a Dash bartender talks about making cocktails for the Lettuce Entertain You restaurants, why bartenders need patience and what you should be drinking right now. Read our story.
Chicago Restaurant Week reservations now available
You're probably still figuring out where to eat for New Year's Eve, but reservations for Chicago Restaurant Week opened today, so now it's time to start thinking about that too. The "week" is actually 14 days (January 24–February 6) and the promotion features $22 prix fixe lunch menus and $33 or $44 prix fixe dinner menus.
When making reservations, here's what to look for: restaurants that offer menu items from their regular menu, not special items, which are usually less exciting than what the restaurant typically offers. Also, check pricing—sometimes the special restaurant week menus are more expensive than if you went and ordered a la carte.
After scanning the list, lots of restaurants still have TBD menus, but a few highlights pop out: GT Fish & Oyster for lunch, where you can get clam chowder, a lobster roll and key lime pie for $22; Cafe Spiaggia, where the lunch menu includes mozzarella and prosciutto, a pizza and dessert for $22; and Embeya, where papaya salad, seafood stew and almond custard tofu is $22 for lunch.
New Year's Eve restaurants: Dinner specials to ring in 2014
New Year's Eve is one of the biggest nights out of the year, and many of the best Chicago restaurants are celebrating with special prix fixe dinners. Whether you want a bite before heading to a New Year's Eve concert or would prefer to toast midnight with steak and Champagne, you'll find a special New Year's Eve dinner to ring in 2014.
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A10 Matthias Merges's new Hyde Park restaurant rings in the New Year with a four-course tasting menu offering dishes like wood-fired burrata, charred cauliflower tortellini, winter leek casserole and chocolate beignets. Dec 31. $85. Beverage pairings start at $40.
Acadia Toast 2014 with an 1889 Parisian cabaret–themed dinner. There are two seating times for the six-course meal, which includes options like beef wellington, lobster thermidor and opera cake. A vegetarian option is available if ordered at least 72 hours in advance. 5:30pm. $125 (wine pairings $75); 9pm, $165 (wine pairings $85).
Ada St Nosh on small plates prepared by chef Zoe Schor while listening to vinyl records you pick out yourself. Meat-friendly and vegetarian prix fixe menus will also be available and include dishes like seared diver scallops and housemade potato gnocchi. 6:30pm. Vegetable $60, Animal $80.
Aria Sous chef Bo Counts prepares a five-course dinner with choices like mussels with Chardonnay butter sauce and housemade pappardelle with chanterelles. There are also special rates at the Fairmont Chicago hotel, so you can keep the party going all night. 5–10pm. $62, wine pairing available for additional fee.
Atwood Café The Loop spot will have a six-course tasting menu that pays homage to famous Chicago chefs. Executive chef Derek Simcik will make dishes inspired by Graham Elliot, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Rick Tramonto and others. There's also a Champagne toast. $70.
Avec The foodie haven will be serving a five-course prix fixe menu including items like artisan cheese with bitter greens, marcona almonds and quince vinaigrette and paella with octopus, snail boudin, mussels and langoustines. 5pm–midnight. $65, optional wine/beer pairing with Champagne toast $40.
Goodman Theatre's The Iceman Cometh headed for New York remount in 2015
Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy and the entire cast of the Goodman Theatre's 2012 production of The Iceman Cometh will reconvene for a six-week remount at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music, set to open in February 2015.
Goodman artistic director Robert Falls will restage his production of Eugene O'Neill's five-hour epic for a February 5–March 15, 2015, run, presented by BAM and producer Scott Rudin. Dennehy and Lane join fellow cast members Stephen Ouimette, Larry Neumann Jr., Salvatore Inzerillo, Marc Grapey, John Judd, John Reeger, James Harms, John Douglas Thompson, Lee Wilkof, John Hoogenakker, Patrick Andrews, Tara Sissom, Lee Stark and Kate Arrington.
The production will again feature design work by Kevin Depinet, Natasha Katz and Merrily Murray-Walsh. "Displaying a painterly sense of composition, Falls uses Natasha Katz's sculptural lighting design and Kevin Depinet's monumental, mud-colored sets to subtly reference everything from Caravaggio's half-lit religious canvases to Edward Hopper's melancholy loners," Zac Thompson said in our review of the show.
I sat down over drinks with Dennehy and Lane for a cover story in advance of The Iceman Cometh's Goodman run last year; read the interview for their thoughts on O'Neill, comedy, mortality and Jessica Lange.
5 things to do today: Wednesday, December 18
Winter WonderFest Tourists will be working with less elbow room than usual. The annual extravaganza returns. Longer lines to ride the Ferris wheel are offset by new spinning attraction Hot Cocoa Cups. Other amusements include video games, ice skating, gingerbread workshops and inflatables. Navy Pier. 10am–8pm. Wristband (excludes ice skating) $16, advance $13; premium wristband (includes ice skating) $20, advance $17.
Lemonade Beauty Bar's Motown and oldies night features a special guest DJ every week. With no cover and some old jams to groove to, guests can be sure to dance away their mid-week blues. Beauty Bar. 9pm. Free.
5 food events this week: December 17–23
Holiday Carolers at Quince Sip cocktails and order bites from the lounge menu or full dinner menu while CQ, a North Shore men's quintet, serenades you with Christmas songs. The performance will take place in the lounge. Reservations are recommended; call 847-570-8419. Quince Restaurant. 1625 Hinman Ave, Evanston. Dec 17 at 7:30pm.
Pagan Days Found celebrates the pagan holidays with a tarot card reading. Lady of Libations Jan Henrichsen will lead a tasting of white whiskies. Proceeds benefit Connections for the Homeless. Found. 1631 Chicago Ave, Evanston. Dec 17 at 6:30pm. $80.
We tasted all the peppermint- and eggnog-flavored treats
Even after realizing that we didn't exactly like pumpkin- and candy corn–flavored fall treats, we decided to give it another try with peppermint- and eggnog-flavored items. On the whole, these treats were far less disgusting—peppermint is a much better complement for chocolate than fake pumpkin spices—but we were still super grossed out by some of the things we ate. Here's what we tried, arranged in order from worst to best.
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5 things to do today: Tuesday, December 17
Christkindlmarket Chicago Designed to mimic Germany's annual market celebration, the Loop replica returns for another year. Live entertainment, dozens of vendors selling miscellaneous handmade ornaments and classic food and drink—mulled spice wine, marzipan, schnitzel, stollen and strudel— are yours for the taking. Daley Plaza. 11am-8pm.
"It's the Political Economy, Stupid" This traveling exhibition, co-organized by Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette, features contemporary photography, installation, drawing and video addressing economic and political problems that started in 2008 and have been ongoing. One video shows Chicago-born artist Dread Scott on Wall Street burning dollar bills and chanting "Money to burn, money to burn." Titled after a James Carville phrase from 1992, the group show presents artworks that effectively reflect, engage with and resist our crisis-plagued "new norm." Gallery 400. 10am–6pm.
Preview: Cicchetti opens today
December is clearly the month for major Italian restaurant openings, as Mike Sheerin's Cicchetti (671 N St Clair St) opens today. The new restaurant sets itself apart from other high-profile openings (Nico Osteria is Paul Kahan's seafood-centric restaurant, while Eataly is, well, a beast unto itself) by focusing on Venetian small plates. Sheerin, late of Trenchermen, which he ran with his brother Pat, teamed up with sous chefs Phil Rubino (Acadia, Moderno) and Sarah Jordan (the Boka group's former pastry chef) to open Cicchetti, a name which comes from the Venetian term for small plates.
"There are a lot of classic Italian dishes that are Venetian," Sheerin said. "Polenta is one, squid ink another classic. There's a good amount of seafood on the menu, like oysters, raw crudos."
10 best things to do this week: December 16-22
Alliance Winter Dance Bash! This holiday-themed variety show features season-inspired dance works in a variety of styles, including ballet, foxtrot, jazz, hip-hop, modern, swing and tap. Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Dec 20, 21 at 7:30pm. $24, students/seniors $16, children 4–12 $8.
"Chicago Works: Lilli Carré" Carré is best known for her comics, illustration and animated films (we're fans), but we look forward to seeing some of her new interdisciplinary experiments. The Chicago artist's MCA solo debut features all new work, including a series of ceramic pieces, projected animation and works on paper. Museum of Contemporary Art. Through Apr 15.
DKV Trio Formidable improv heavyweights Hamid Drake (percussion), Kent Kessler (bass) and Ken Vandermark (reeds) team up for what's become an annual gig here at the Hideout's Immediate Sound Series. A chance to see this alternately fierce and fearless combo in action is rare and should not be missed. Hideout. Dec 17, 18 at 10pm. $15.
Psalm One, JC Brooks and friends go caroling at the Slo 'Mo Spectacular: A Soulful Holiday Shindig
Chicago musicians kicked out the holiday jams Saturday night at the Bottom Lounge for the Slo 'Mo Spectacular: A Soulful Holiday Shindig. Sidewalk Chalk served as the house band for the night, joined by guests including JC Brooks of the Uptown Sound, Psalm One, Matthew Santos, Jeanine O'Toole of the 1900s and Bare Mutants, Damon Locks of the Eternals, Lili K, KOKUMO, David Sampson of Cains & Abels, Deja Taylor, #rthe St. James, Grana' Louise and the a cappella group Queerty.
The evening was hosted by Kristen Kaza, producer of the regular Slo 'Mo night at the Whistler (a nominee for best LGBTQ night away from Boystown in this year's Time Out Chicago Best Awards), and Ike Holter of the Inconvenience, and served as a benefit for Project Fierce Chicago's efforts to support homeless LGBTQ youth. The next Slo 'Mo at the Whistler is this Thursday, December 19.
5 best dance club events this week: December 16-22
Rustie + DJ Rashad Part of a Scottish beat revolution that also includes Hudson Mohawke and numerous highlights on the Numb3rs label roster, Rustie is currently one of the U.K. scene's top names, praised in the Guardian (winning its Best First Album award in 2011 for his Glass Swords on Warp Records). The low-end, leftfield beatmaker descends on the Mid with hometown footwork king DJ Rashad, who has critics in a tizzy with his Double Cup, a masterwork of soulful, hip-hop riddled Chicago drum & bass. The Mid. Dec 20 at 10pm. $10, free before 11:30pm with R.S.V.P. at clubtix.com.
Oval + Container + Anenon + Natural Information Society As Oval, Marcus Popp creates music that is anything but pop. His minimal electronic compositions, often abetted by programmed software, is all ping-ponging pins and needles, Autechre and Aphex Twin pushed into a realm that approaches classical chamber music. L.A.'s Anenon approaches jazz in his clean, hushed electro-organic works, chopping up sax and voices into the mix. This brainy, intimate Red Bull Academy concert is proof the energy drink is about more than giving you an extreme jolt. Empty Bottle. Dec 22 at 8pm. $8.
5 concerts to see this week: December 16-22
Kanye West + Kendrick Lamar Oh, sweet Yeezus! Kim Kardashian's baby daddy is embarking on his first solo tour in five years, with Kendrick Lamar in tow. Kanye pranced around in his leather skirt with Jay Z during 2011's. Now he has a freaking mountain and moon onstage. Will it be all Walt Disney meets Steve Jobs? Will his tour rider include croissants? We'll just have to wait and see. United Center. Dec 17, 18 at 7:30pm. $35–$150.
Wale + Meek Mill + Twista + L.E.P. + Spenzo + Kam WGCI's UB's Big Birthday Jam brings a packed hip-hop bill to Uptown. D.C.'s lead spitter, Wale headlines, hopefully previewing tracks from his upcoming 2014 album, The Album About Nothing, a collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld (reportedly, seriously) that spins off his career-making debut mixtape. Fellow Maybach Music MC Meek Mill tells dark tales of the Philly streets. Of course, Chicago represents with South Siders L.E.P. and scene grandfather Twista. Aragon. Dec 17 at 9pm. $30.
5 things to do today: Monday, December 16
ZooLights Open late through the holidays, the zoo guides evening visitors along its winding pathways with a sprawling display of illuminated designs, many of them shaped like animals. If the lights leave you dazed, the hot cider and chain-saw-wielding ice sculptors are sure to wake you up. Lincoln Park Zoo. 5pm– 9pm.
"Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine" If we are what we eat, then this exhibition—featuring more than 100 paintings, sculptures and decorative arts depicting an array of edibles, lavish meals, the remnants of meals and factory-produced foods—tells us a lot about what we are. Organized by the Art Institute and exploring the presence of food in artwork from the 18th through 20th centuries, "Art and Appetite" speaks to America's evolving but ever-important food culture and the historical art of eating. Art Institute of Chicago. 10:30am–5pm.
5 things to do today: Sunday, December 15
Breakfast with Santa at Brookfield Zoo Join Santa and Mrs. Claus for an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet at the Brookfield Zoo's Discovery Center. There will be live music and appearances by costumed characters, which will offer plenty of family photo ops. Reservations are required. Brookfield Zoo. 9am, 11am. $21.95-$40.95.
Anders Nilsen Nilsen celebrates the release of Rage of Poseidon, his new accordion-style book from Drawn & Quarterly, full of silhouette images of mythical characters and haunting narratives. He'll discuss the book with Chicago journalist Jessica Hopper, followed by a signing. City Lit Books. 4pm. Free.
Heard on the street: December 14, 2013, edition
Want more overheard randomness? Head to the "Heard on the street" archive for access to a few months' worth of politically incorrect quips. If you're eavesdropping around town, e-mail us the funny, outrageous stuff you've heard. You might see the quotes in the next edition.
Jerry Seinfeld at the Chicago Theatre: review
The Jerry Seinfeld that bounded onto the Chicago Theatre stage on Friday night was a somewhat different man from the even-steven, cereal-and-Superman–obsessed perpetual bachelor version of himself that we came to know from television. At 59, the comedian has a little less hair, but he seems to have gained a measure of perspective in the 15 years since Seinfeld ceased production. (Yes, it's been that long.) The "What's the deal with…?" guy, so easily caricatured over the years for his absurd riffs on airline peanuts and car-rental reservations, is now looking at minutiae with the broader, less self-involved view of the family man who realizes those things affect his wife of 14 years, their relationship and the world in which they're raising their three kids.
"I don't like my whole generation—the way we parent. Too into it! When we were kids, our parents didn't give a damn about us," he said. "If you're a parent now, putting your kid to bed, it's like a royal coronation ceremony, with the flossing and the plaque rinse and the reading of the eight moron books. You know what my bedtime story was? Darkness!"
Seinfeld admitted he doesn't hang out with single guys anymore. "You have a girlfriend? That's wiffle ball, my friend. You're playing paintball war; I'm in Afghanistan. You're sitting on a merry-go-round blowing on a pinwheel; I'm driving a truck full of nitroglycerin."
This is all to say that a modern Seinfeld stand-up set is not a show about nothing. In the era of everyone and your mother sweating the smallest of life's small stuff on social media, Seinfeld seems a comedian made for this time. More so than in the past, his jokes resonate as little nuggets of cultural criticism. There are still bits about the quirks of automatic faucets and his parents' retirement home being a minimum-security prison, but he has largely updated his repertoire to fit these overcaffeinated, tech-centric times. Jerry is still "just walking around, looking around"—as his previous riff on the male mind goes—but now he's glancing at his smartphone, too.
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Chicago Tap Theatre: Tidings of Tap! Festive dances are on tap at this special performance by Chicago Tap Theatre, featuring dynamic interpretations of various Christmas, Chanukah and winter songs, as well as a dusting of indoor snow. University of Illinois at Chicago Theatre. 8pm. $35, seniors $27, students/dancers $22.
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The holiday season brings with it a variety of seasonal stage entertainments, from a menagerie of Scrooges to religious-minded pageants to non-denominational family fun, such as the Hypocrites' Mikado. We reviewed 10 holiday offerings this year; click through the photos above for our full takes, or check out our more comprehensive guide to holiday plays.


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If you're going to charge me extra I can take my business elsewhere.
And that's why I think a lot of retail are gonna send up saying you know in might not be prudent and on the -- additional fees.
If not if I keep continue to move to move -- so what's this we have a voice my our pocketbook and would anticipate my -- -- -- just reminds me of the fuel surcharge remember that.
Airline started adding that it.
-- always part of the cost equation for airlines that they had to -- for fuel.
And also here's a little -- line item on your bill fuel surcharge this is exactly like this to that he made the point at the top of the segment.
Look at the end of the day this is already being paid for this is just still way to squeeze another few nickel and dimes out of people who frankly.
Don't want to -- it.
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I'm on an airline it's just another way to figure out how to further monetize the consumer -- You have a choice like -- said if you go to where you normally shop any charging that one or 2% and it really ticks you off.
And it's -- -- -- -- further down the street its arrival of a further down the street and make your voice heard.
If -- if if I unfortunately -- in must -- that -- consumers -- lightly.
And they're gonna look at the theater class okay let's another eight cents a flocking to kill -- -- like shopping here and that's a very very dangerous mindset to have because -- aggregate.
That equals hundreds of millions of dollars that are going well.
Exactly what it's gonna equal it's -- equal 25 billion dollars ultimately because that's -- revenues coming out of the system.
And because of what -- because of this at court decision that came out on this very topic.
But -- may have located a way out of this problem for some of our viewers.
American Express has its own agreements and is not part of this lawsuit it has its own agreements with retailers here's what -- told me today.
It is not customer friendly it's not a customer friendly practice for a merchant to attract customer to -- store website to shop and -- the penalize the customer.
For using the card that the merchant except.
Now -- -- the special agreement with retailers.
They can't consumers cannot see their costs and Amex -- go up.
If debit cards don't go up to and in this case the court was very clear in saying that debit cards cannot be a part of this out.
I think that -- the people using Amex cards may not see this -- so that may be one way out of it.
We think Jack.
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They do not have a sub prime product you've got to have really get credit credit to get an Amex card -- get me wrong I plenty -- Amex cards are not just about dissing them.
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-- yield though I'm wondering about the impact time on credit cards -- you talk about how you like credit cards to build credit.
For a lot of people out there.
Does this mean you had some of the benefits to people get from credit cards like earning miles and points at that they then used for other things.
Our our our people not gonna participate in the.
What seems -- -- when the 22009 -- legislation passed a lot of individuals thought that the rewards those little go away but actually they started to use more wars in order to try to entice in the -- -- to use his car more frequently.
So I don't think that this is not as on both sides whether the credit card comes out -- -- still trying to make money.
But the consumers now have an opportunity to say that I have to further educate myself exactly how this current going to be used.
What this card is gonna cost me and what I would have to do navigate the that the process of all these additional fees on an -- in the -- is trying to build my credit.
I don't cost my pocket but that was more so it's -- the -- we have to educate ourselves about every single dollar coming out of pocket book is there any way to fight -- -- -- I I say walk away again if you see and be -- means we didn't using sites like group had a different -- that allow us to use coupons we don't use coupons much of used to people saving two dollars a month.
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John last word here had eaten -- how -- protect yourself.
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The St. George college is considering an entirely new name, partially for its upcoming change to four-year university status -- and partially due to the negative stigma the word 'Dixie' sometimes accompanies. Sorenson Advertising was enlisted by the school to conduct a community-wide survey to gauge an overall perception of the issue.
"It is imperative to us that we engaged and considered all opinions and details in the process," said Erik Sorenson, the agency's president.
During the three-month-long probe, more than 6,000 people participated in surveys, focus groups, forums and interviews. The agency sought opinions from Dixie students, alumni, staff, community members and regional stakeholders. Findings concluded that 84 percent of those surveyed favor keeping the word 'Dixie' in the school's name. In word testing, 85 percent of respondents said that the words 'Utah' and 'State' could or should be included in the new name. Nearly 60 percent said 'St. George' should be part of the name. The words 'southwest' and 'red rock' received approval from 35 percent and 25 percent of those surveyed, respectively.
Sorenson Advertising concluded its research by recommending four possible names to replace 'Dixie State College.' They are: Dixie State University (DSU), St. George University/University of St. George (SGU/USG), Utah Dixie State University (UDSU) and Utah Dixie University (UDU).
The college's board of trustees will vote on the name change proposal Jan. 18. The final name recommendation will advance to the Utah State Board of Regents for approval on Jan. 25. The board of regents is also expected during that meeting to ratify Dixie's change to four-year university-status.
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I really want today's ShirtPunch but the last one I got took way too long to ship and wasn't the best quality. Still its Community.
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Officially gave up on House today. I was about to fall asleep watching it. I think that's a good enough sign saying the show sucks now.
Shameless last night was freaking amazing!!!! I love Debbie heavy episodes and Ethle made a friend!
And last weeks UK Shameless was also very good. Mickey was a freaking bad ass.
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What's up ya'll I'm here to recommend some good TV shows and some movies :P
First of the TV shows:
Legend of The Seeker: Is about a farm boy who gets chosen to be the seeker (person in charge of finding things and saving the world) on his quest to saving the world he ends meeting people and solving their problems. It's good show does kind of remind me of "The Legend of Zelda" a little bit, it only has two seasons (that are complete) because the show got cancelled
Ghost Whisper: Starting Jennifer (god she's so hot) as Melinda Gordon who is the "Ghost Whisper" which is a person who talk to ghost (kind of obvious) her grand mother is the first in her family to know of this gift and tells Melinda to embrace. Her duty is to listen to ghost problems and help them find eternal peace (or the light as they call it).
Prison Break: My sister favorite and my also. Is about a Michael Scofield who tries to free his brother out prison because of a crime that he did not commit.
The Suite Life On Deck: I know, I know, A Disney Channel Show XD But if you give t a try you may turn LOL in almost every episode. Is about these twins named Zack and Cody who aboard the SSTipton (a ship :P) and have adventures on sea. The same characters that were in "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" find their way on to the show too (not all of them though)
Now for movies :
Transformer Dark of the Moon: One of the best movies I saw last year (BTW I sneaked into it XD) This is by far the best one in the series. It involve Sam Whitwicky who founded the Transformer and has helped them through their battles of the Evil Decepticons. While being famous as the protector of earth he has gained some fame and fortune and also a new wife (she's hot too) Though he lost communication with the Transformers he eventually finds out something fishy is going on and so do the Transformer. They reunite and try figure what happened on the mission to the moon.
Observe and Report: Starting Seth Rogen who plays as Ronald "Ronnie" Barnhardt who is a mall cop who has to find an anonymous flasher exposing himself (in the nude) to shoppers. It's a very funny movie who a really deep story line.
Liar Liar: A classics by Jim Carrey XD Is about a father who is a lawyer and handles his cases through lying. Although he has a son and had a wife (they are divorced) they struggle through his lying methods too. Which his son for his birthday wish, wishes that his father couldn't tell a lie in one day. Now Fletcher Reed (Jim Carrey) finds himself telling the truth to everything which is a problem to him because he has case which he has to lie in order to win.
I think of more, but 'til then enjoy the shows/ movies
Yeah, I merged this with the existing TV show thread because it doesn't really need a thread of its own. That and because anyone recommending a Transformers movie has absolutely no business in a movie thread.
Way to go, Lex! I came back and wondered why I was the most recent post in the TV thread. : |
Also, HIMYM has taken two weeks off for god knows why, so I've just been watching a bit of Clannad with Riles. Still gotta finish Lie to Me on Netflix. 30 Rock has season 5 on Netflix, might struggle through that.
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman details
Formats: | PG DVD, Blu-ray |
Starring: | James Mason, Ava Gardner |
Director: | Albert Lewin |
Genre: | Drama |
Studio: | PARK CIRCUS |
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman |
PG Feature |
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Run time: | 2 hours 2 minutes |
Rental release: | 09 Aug 2010 |
Main languages: | English |
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A step back in time
By Broadpaws (4 reviews) from Norfolk , 16 Aug 2010[Highly rated reviewer]
I actually really enjoyed this movie, I am an old romantic at heart, would recommend this on a dull day with a mug of hot chocolate....!- Was this review helpful to you?
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By plushchan (15 reviews) from Bournemouth , 24 Aug 2013I really enjoyed this film as it reminded me of when I first saw it, at home on a Saturday afternoon with my Mum, who looked like Ava! The story is a fantasy and should be watched with this in mind, very romantic and easy to watch. A very nice way to spend a wet afternoon.- Was this review helpful to you?
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High Fly Flown
By SirSaucyRascal (37 reviews) , 19 Feb 2012See this movie !
...it is about so much but seems to be about so little !
and Ava could act when she had to ... she steals it from everybody and that includes James !
...but what matters most is the feel of this film....
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Doesn't fly so high
By RJNeb2 (1013 reviews) from London , 21 Sep 2011For a film about the kind of passion that makes lovers give up their lives for each other, this stiff interpretation is sorely lacking in fire. It is however madly in love with its leading lady ravishingly shot at every turn. But there is much confusion in what it should be about: bullfights and car racing somehow wander into the mix. James Mason is a bit constipated as the enigmatic sailor who may or may not be the eternal mythical Flying Dutchman, destined to travel the high seas until he finds a woman prepared to give up her life to be with him.
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Pandora's Box of Delights
By AnnaElizabeth76 (1 review) , 02 May 2011The 'flying Dutchman' is the ever-charming and silver-tongued James Mason, his 'Pandora' the statuesque Ava Gardner. Set in a Spanish port town in the late 1940s/early 1950s it tells of the legend of the sailing Dutchman (with a very English accent!) comdemned to travel the world alone until he meets his destined and doomed lover, Pandora. It's a curious and watchable little film for the strong and starry lead actors and the suspend-your-disbelief mythological story. The Technicolor is a little garish at times and the unconvincing beach at night scenes look as if shot day-for-night. Worth a look though for movie-buffs and those looking for a little Hollywood glamour with a European twist.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
By ExCurzon (1 review) from Belfast , 03 Apr 2011This a beautiful fantasy the way films should be made. The opening beachshot that sets up the story if a perfect frame for what is to come.
To some it may be dated and old fashioned but showing love as an unbreakable unexplainable bond that can touch you at any time is what life is about.
If you love your partner would not move the alps 3 foot to the left if you thought it would put a smile on there pretty face?
That is what this movie is about and I recommend it to anyone.
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Tulsa Tourist Attractions
The oil capital of Tulsa, the second largest city in Oklahoma, lies in the east of the state. Thanks to the wealth brought by oil, it has a number of excellent museums: the Gilcrease Museum, which is devoted to the move to the west (Indian artifacts, pictures of the Wild West by Remington, Russell and other artists); the Philbrook Museum of Art (art of many periods and styles, including the Italian Renaissance, 19th c. English painting and Indian arts and crafts); and the Fenster Museum of Jewish Art.South of Downtown Tulsa, the gold facade of the Christian fundamentalist Oral Roberts University gleams in the sun - this is a top-class architectural showpiece, with "praying hands" more than 76 ft high.
Gilcrease Museum
The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa presents an extensive art collection from the American West. The Museum has an excellent collection of Native American art, artifacts and historical manuscripts. There are gardens in the museums 460 acres of land.
Gardens at Gilcrease Museum
The Gardens at Gilcrease Museum are 23 acres of thematic gardening styles including Victorian, Colonial, pre-Columbian and Pioneer.
Philbrook Museum of Art
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa is an Italian Renaissance-style villa with 23 acres of formal and informal gardens. Collections include African, American Indian, Asian and European art.
Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium
The Tulsa Air and Space Museum pays tribute to the people and events in aviation history, and the city's contributions to the aerospace industry. Hands-on exhibits include flight simulation, shuttle launch, wind tunnel and a Space Shuttle Robotic Arm.The James E. Bertelsmeyer Planetarium has the Spitz SciDome HD projection technology.
Boston Avenue United Methodist Church
The Boston Avenue Church in Tulsa was established in 1893. The church is a significant example of modern skyscraper architecture. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1999 due to the exemplary Art Deco architecture and exterior terra cotta sculptures designed by artist Robert Garrison.
Greenwood Cultural Center
Located next to the historic Mackey Home the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa houses the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, the Opal Dargon Renaissance Hall and an art gallery. The center promotes and celebrates Oklahoma's African-American heritage and culture.
Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum
The Tulsa Zoo houses more than 2,800 animals including zebras, antelopes and Cape buffaloes. The Living Museum presents North American natural history exhibits in a four-building complex built in 1978. The zoo also has an African exhibit and a Tropical American rainforest exhibit.
Ida Dennie Willis Museum of Minatures, Dolls and Toys
The Willis Museum in Tulsa houses the collection of dolls and toys gathered by Mrs. Ida Dennie Willis, a retired teacher. The renovated 1910 Tudor mansion has over 2,000 dolls plus doll houses, toys, and miniatures.
Oxley Nature Center
The Oxley Nature Center in Mohawk Park in Tulsa consists of 800 acres of natural flora and nearly 9mi/14km of walking trails. There is also an interpretive building with hands-on exhibits.
Tulsa Garden Center
The Tulsa Garden Center is located in Woodland Park in Tulsa. The center promotes horticultural education. It includes a 21-room mansion, 3-acre arboretum, formal sunken garden and rock garden. It also has a library of horticultural books.
Bell's Amusement Park (closed)
ATTRACTION IS CLOSED.Bell's Amusement Park in Tulsa opened in 1951 and offers a wooden roller coaster, log flume ride, kiddie land and miniature golf.
Big Splash Water Park
The Big Splash Water Park in Tulsa is a water theme park with a water roller coaster, water slides, lazy river and kiddie pool.
Harmon Science Center
The Harmon Science Center in Tulsa has interactive exhibits that include laser shows, displays about weather, electricity, chemistry and geology.
Oral Roberts University
Oral Roberts University in Tulsa has a 200ft/60m glass and steel prayer tower, seven-story diamond shaped library, sports center and television production studio.
Tulsa Historical Society
The Tulsa Historical Society is housed in the Samuel Travis Mansion which features period furniture, photographs and displays about the history of Tulsa.


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The Acculturative Challenge
However durable Mudejar society might have been, it had nevertheless experienced considerable acculturative change. Prior to analyzing late-fifteenth-century Mudejar society, it will be useful to outline briefly some of the more significant of these changes, brought about both subtly by the Muslims' informal interaction with the Christian populace, and forcefully by the formal imposition of Christian authority on an Islamic society.
Valencia's Muslims underwent their most radical cultural adjustment in the half-century immediately following the Christian conquest. During that time the Islamic society was essentially decapitated, losing its political and cultural elites to emigration and in failed rebellions. Islamic government and the public application of the Shariah were rudely shunted aside by a Christian colonial administration with its own body of law, the Furs .[2] Even the autonomous and corporate aljama, vouchsafed to the Muslims by their Christian overlord, had no Islamic antecedent, compelling the Muslim adelantats to administer their communities in a foreign manner analogous to that of the Christian jurates in their corporate universitas .[3] As has been indicated, the Christian bureaucracy, particularly when functioning as a tax-collecting mechanism, intruded on most areas of Mudejar life, so that in even so intimate a family affair as inheritance strict observance of the Shariah had to be modified in compliance with the king's demands. Furthermore, the Muslim by necessity had to learn to function in a Christian as well as Islamic legal system. Although this was to be expected for cases involving both Christian and Muslim parties, the fact that some Muslim litigants pursued civil suits with coreligionists in Christian courts is indicative of an acculturative process potentially damaging to the internal harmony of Mudejar communities.
Also important were the more gradual processes of Christian urbanization and seigneurialization, which, coupled with the decreasing size of the Muslim population (from an overwhelming majority in the thirteenth century to 30 percent of the kingdom's total by the midfifteenth century), altered the very appearance of the kingdom, as churches re-
placed mosques and Muslims retreated from the urban centers to the countryside. Although the rhythms of agricultural and pastoral life remained largely unchanged, Christian control of the economy, especially of the larger domestic and international markets, meant that Muslim farmers, artisans, and retail merchants were dependent on Christians for marketing their produce, selling their manufactured goods, and purchasing raw materials and bulk goods. Mudejar dependence was further manifested in their vassalage to Christian lords and their loss of ultimate control over their land.[4] Outside of the walls of his own home or mosque, the Mudejar could hardly avoid coming to grips with the Christian presence, and having to do so on Christian terms.
The greatest threat to the integrity of the Mudejars' Islamic culture and Muslim identity lay in the cities and towns, where the populations were overwhelmingly Christian. There the expressions of Christian religiosity were most pervasive and most aggressive, while conversely the public observance of Islam was all the more restricted. The best example of this tendency is the anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish preaching of the Inquisitors from the pulpits of Valencia and Cartagena. Another urban danger, particularly in the capital, was the volatility of the Christian mob. Although the evocation of despair fed on fear might have been an efficacious proselytizing tool with some Muslims, it is arguable that the demagoguery of Inquisitors and like-minded clerics and Christian mob violence would have been more likely to repel Muslims from Christianity and to inspire among them a reactionary zeal in their commitment to Islam.[5] The cities posed another threat perhaps more serious than Christian aggression, namely, the possibility of friendly and leisurely contact with Christians and their religion. Adherents of both faiths congregated in city taverns and fonduks, passing their leisure time gambling together, drinking together, and sleeping together.[6] For the Muslim such activities meant a violation of the precepts of his own faith, and signaled his entry into a gray area of cultural amorphousness, where, if his Muslim identity was not overtly challenged, there nevertheless resulted a weakening of his own sense of distinctiveness. That Mudejars flocked to Valencia to enjoy with their Christian friends the spectacle of the Corpus Christi Day processions has a similar significance:[7] it does not mean that these Muslims were on the road to baptism; rather, it indicates that they had acquired non-Islamic cultural accoutrements and forms of behavior born of a long-term exposure to Christian society.
A useful index of acculturation is the extent of Mudejar bilingualism. Burns, in unison with Fuster and Barceló Torres, concludes that in the thirteenth century the Muslim masses were unilingual Arabic-speakers.[8] For midfourteenth-century Valencia Boswell points to only a minimal change in this pattern: "the vast majority of the Mudéjares did not
speak the language of the dominant culture." This was in contrast to the kingdom of Aragon, where the Mudejars spoke Romance but had for the most part lost the ability to function in Arabic.[9] It is thought that throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries this state of affairs remained more or less unchanged. In support of this view historians note the Moriscos' obdurate use of Arabic as their language of daily parlance and the systematic effort of the Christian authorities (from 1565) to discourage the teaching and use of Arabic. Of particular significance is the agreement reached between the Moriscos and Carlos I in 1526, in which the Moriscos maintained that "the greater part of the Moorish men and almost all of the women do not know how to speak aljamia (Romance)." Moreover, the Moriscos stated that they would need forty years in which to learn Romance (Carlos I allowed them only ten).[10] The evidence is impressive, and that both the Mudejars and the Moriscos spoke and read Arabic seems indisputable (see below); however, their avowed unilingualism is open to debate. I would argue for a more extensive Mudejar bilingualism, although with Romance spoken with an imperfect accent and syntax. Given the Moriscos' insincere conversion and their anxiety to forestall thorough catechization in the Catholic faith and Inquisitorial inquiries, their presentation of their linguistic status in the negotiations with Carlos I might have been somewhat disingenuous, a device meant to discourage zealous Romance-speaking clergymen. Clearly, in asking for a forty-year period of grace the Moriscos were playing for time. In the years between 1526 and 1609 there very well might have ensued a decreasing bilingualism. As the Moriscos further withdrew from the cities, their contact with the Christian world would have decreased, while, in a reactionary manner, their desire to avoid Christian culture and to cultivate their own cultural distinctiveness—in effect, to freeze the acculturative process—would have intensified. Just as the Christian authorities realized that the Arabic language had to be removed as an impediment to the effective "Christianization" of the Moriscos,[11] it is equally possible the Moriscos understood that by inculcating their children in the Arabic language, the sacred language of the Qur'an[*] , and by forbidding them any education in Romance they were strengthening their fidelity to Islam. In sum, the Moriscos' linguistic status is not necessarily an accurate indicator of that of their Mudejar predecessors.
The records of cases tried in the court of the bailiff general, in which Muslims appear as litigants and witnesses, are suggestive of a significant Mudejar bilingualism. Normally, if a Muslim witness was in need of an interpreter, a role usually fulfilled by the royal qadi[*] , the latter's participation in the case was explicitly indicated. For instance, Nuzeya, a Muslim prostitute from Oliva, confessed with "Ali Bellvis, qadi ,
intervening."[12] More explicitly, one defendant, Ubaydal Allepus of Bétera, is described as "mal algemiat (i.e., he speaks Romance poorly) ... he does not understand algemia," but his interpreter, the amin[*] Açen Amet, was a "Moor molt algemiat and a person who understands la algemia very well."[13] Yet it is striking that the large majority of the Mudejars appearing in these trial records did not require an interpreter. While it is not surprising that the Muslims of urban morerías spoke Romance, given their constant mixing with the Christian populace, or that the amin of a rural aljama had mastered enough Romance to act as intermediary between the aljama and its lord, it is impressive that many Mudejars from rural areas could testify in Romance. Some examples are Açen Muça of Serra,[14] Homar b. Perellos of Benaguacil,[15] Ubaydal Suleymen of Mirambell,[16] Maymo ben Çabit of Manises,[17] and Abdulcarim of Oliva,[18] among others. Equally significant are the testimonies of Christians about their seemingly routine verbal exchanges with Muslims. Ursula, the daughter of the innkeeper Joan Jeroni, testified how Alasdrach and Abdalla Sinube of Buñol, and Ali Alcayet of Chiva, "were speaking Arabic (alguaravia ) with the said captive Moor," whom they had allegedly helped to escape, and how later, after returning from a meeting with the lord of Carlet, "they requested [from her] a good room for sleeping."[19] Miguel de la Serra, a tailor of Valencia, remembered that on Corpus Christi Day Muslim youths from Chiva had come to his house, eaten there, and then invited him and others to accompany them to the festivities.[20] The odyssey of Angela de Vanya, a prostitute from Cuenca plying her trade in Onda, is revealing. She was first approached by Hadal, a Muslim from Benigazlo (Vall de Uxó), but did not know he was a Muslim, because he spoke "in the Valencian tongue and very suavely and not showing any sign of knowing the Moorish tongue." Hadal compelled Angela to go with him to Tales, a Muslim village (loch de moros ), and brought her to the house of Mahomat Cotalla. There, as the frightened Angela sat weeping in the Cotallas' kitchen, Mahomat and his wife assured her that she would not be harmed.[21] Although these trial records afford only a glimpse at a small cross section of Mudejar life, they do show an erosion of linguistic barriers since the fourteenth century. The increasing size of the Christian population and the variety and frequency of its economic dealings with the Mudejars must have necessitated the latter's acquisition of at least enough Romance to carry on day-to-day affairs. It is unrealistic to assume that Muslim and Christian artisans, farmers, and merchants all had interpreters at their disposal for conducting their mundane but essential business. The documentation does not indicate that this was so. If the Mudejars assiduously cultivated an Arabic culture, there is still no reason to assume that at this point in time, before the mass
conversions, they had any reason for a self-conscious refusal to communicate in Romance. Demography and economy advised otherwise, and linguistic adaptation proceeded apace.
It should not be thought that such acculturation of the Mudejars to Romance-Christian culture as did take place was necessarily a negative or a degenerative process, or a process the flow of which was only unidirectional,[22] although it is likely that the recessive but resilient culture of the Mudejar minority had experienced greater modification from its continual contact with a dynamic and expanding Christian majority. Rather, such acculturation was inevitable, an evolutionary process of adaptation necessary for the social and economic viability of a society that juxtaposed the proponents of mutually hostile ideologies. Even if the behavior of some Mudejars seemed almost to flout Islamic convention, this did not signal a reorientation of their fundamental religious beliefs. (If anything, it attests to a kind of secularization, in which beliefs were not so much altered as ignored.) In a medieval plural society, where identity was finally defined by religious affiliation, cultural erosion and unorthodox conduct were not evidence of Mudejar assimilation into Christian society. Such assimilation—the lessening of social distance, as opposed to acculturation, the lessening of cultural distance[23] —could be achieved only through religious conversion, that is, through a fundamental change of identity. Therefore, in order to grasp the degree to which Mudejar society was truly threatened by absorption into the Christian body, one must broach the question of the extent of Mudejar conversion to Christianity.
Unlike the thirteenth century, with its mendicant preachers, schools of Arabic, and refined techniques of polemic, the result of which had been the conversion of a considerable number of Muslims,[24] the Valencia of the Catholic Monarchs saw no organized ecclesiastical campaign of proselytizing. After recovering from the trauma of the conquest, a factor that probably accounted for much of the Dominicans' early success, the Mudejars had regrouped, and so effectively that the Valencian Church seems to have made little or no further headway in the fourteenth century. This caused the Dominican preacher Vicent Ferrer to lament the inactivity of the clergy in missionary work (1413).[25] The stimulus of Ferrer's zeal led to the establishment of an Arabic school in Valencia during the reign of Alfonso V (ca. 1424), but it seems to have quickly faded into oblivion.[26] As we have seen in chapters 1 and 2, although King Fernando cautiously welcomed the baptism of individual Mudejars, he did not promote conversion on a mass scale. The lords of the kingdom, both ecclesiastical and secular, staunchly opposed any attempts to proselytize their vassals, since they could not wring as much rent out of Christian vassals.[27]
There were compelling social reasons for not converting. The convert, it seems, entered a sort of "no-man's land," being a full member of neither Christian nor Muslim society. If anything, owing to the strong ties of blood uniting Mudejar families (see below), converts tended to associate more with their Muslim relatives than with Christians. The convert Miguel Crestia was implicated along with his Muslim brother Ubaydal Allepus in the murder of another Muslim.[28] A tornadizo of Cocentaina came to the aid of a Muslim relative, a runaway slave from Córdoba.[29] Of course, Mudejars did not regard the conversion of their fellows favorably. Thus, the Inquisition arrested two Muslims who boldly and vociferously attempted to dissuade some Muslims from receiving baptism.[30] Moreover, the convert put in jeopardy whatever inheritances he hoped to receive from Muslim relations. However, it seems that the Crown was no longer confiscating the estates of deceased converts, as had once been the case. Therefore, the potential convert was not burdened by the fear of depriving his descendants of their inheritances.[31]
Even so, Christian society did not welcome the convert with open arms. In previous centuries Christians had insulted converts by calling them "dogs," "renegades," and the like.[32] Given the lukewarm reception of the judeo-conversos by Old Christians and the beginning of an obsession with the purity of Christian blood, it is highly unlikely that the situation would have improved. The murder of Mudejar converts by Old Christians supports this supposition.[33]
Nevertheless, a small number of Muslims chose to convert. The large majority of the proselytes were slaves who had the most to gain from conversion. Slaves with Jewish or Muslim masters had to be manumitted after their baptism, for infidels could not own Christian slaves. One Muslim woman preferred conversion to four years of servitude to a Jew.[34] For slaves with Christian masters, the situation was less clear-cut. The law provided that the slave should be freed only if he converted with the consent of his master. Therefore, the decision to manumit the baptized slave was solely the master's. Some masters granted their Christian slaves freedom, but most did not. Business sense usually prevailed over religious scruples.[35] Runaway slaves sometimes converted so as to conceal their fugitive status. When the Muslim slave Fatima fled from Valencia into Aragon, she became Elinor de Vellasquo. From there she journeyed to Barcelona and to Mallorca, where she was apprehended.[36]
There were some sincere free converts. The best known of these was the son of a faqih[*] of Játiva, who received baptism in 1487, became a priest, and preached to the Muslims of Granada and Aragon. Under the name of "Juan Andres" he translated into Aragonese the Qur'an[*] and the "seven books of the Sunnah ."[37] Of the few other Valencian converts
who appear in the documentation, we know nothing more than their name or place of residence, or sometimes both.[38] Conversion among the Aragonese and Catalan Mudejars seems to have been equally infrequent. In an extremely bizarre incident, a Muslim woman of Albarracín converted just fifteen days after her wedding and then endeavored to retrieve her bridewealth from her Muslim husband.[39] Perhaps conversion was a way of escaping an unhappy arranged marriage, although divorce might have been easier.
Mudejar conversion, then, was not unknown, but it amounted to, at best, a few drops in the font. The large majority had no intention of abandoning Islam.


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Thailand: "Restorative Justice" underway for Thailand
from the article by Apichart Phankeasorn and Pattanapong Srinarm:
The Thai Cabinet recently passed a bill on measures to be taken in lieu of criminal prosecution ("Bill"). If enacted, the Bill will provide alternative solutions for dealing with petty offences. The Bill, passed by the Thai Cabinet in February 2010, is now with the Thai Council of State.
The Bill marks a change from retributive to restorative justice. It focuses on reforming the offender and healing the victim by allowing for mediation and probation measures rather than prosecuting the case in a court of law.
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Hostages to Fortune The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began
By Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark
(HarperPress 510pp £16.99)
On 4 July 1995, a gang of armed men abducted four Western backpackers from a campsite in Kashmir known as 'the Meadow'. One of the hostages soon escaped, whereupon the gang abducted two more trekkers. Of these five prisoners, one was later found beheaded; the others are still missing.
Using an enormous range of first-hand testimony, Adrian Levy and Cathy ScottClark have pieced together a multi-stranded narrative of the events that triggered the seizure, the military and police response, the privations endured by the hostages, the abortive negotiations with the kidnappers, the impact on the hostages' families, and the media circus that accompanied the whole affair. The Meadow also provides a definitive end to the story, which has remained unresolved for seventeen years.
While the timeline of the hostage drama drives the book forward, the authors are careful to place developments in context within the long-running insurgency in Kashmir, explaining how Indian security forces were ranged against several types of armed militants, including local Kashmiri separatists and various factions of foreign mujaheddin, often funded by or controlled from Pakistan. It was one of these 'guest' jihadi outfits that snatched the Westerners. The book then explains the apparent paralysis of the Indian authorities during the abduction by showing how strategic imperatives – known locally in Kashmir as 'the Game' – dictated that it was in the interests of the Indian government to let the crisis 'run long'; the longer it went on, the worse Pakistan was made to look. More coldly, the same mindset also recognised that once a 'moral advantage' had been gained, it was not in India's interests to relinquish it.
Effectively, Levy and Scott-Clark accuse the Indian authorities of making no attempt to resolve the crisis, despite knowing exactly where the hostages were from a very early stage, and despite the willingness of the increasingly frustrated kidnappers, who called themselves al Faran, to abandon all their original demands and take a modest cash sum instead.
Most chilling of all is the book's revelation that, after five months, al Faran passed on the hostages to another insurgent group, who had been 'turned' the previous year and were now working for the Indians. By this point the Game also dictated that it was in no one's interests to release the dishevelled foreigners: the permanent value of their disappearance was more helpful to India's cause than their release by merciful captors, or even their rescue by brave Indians. The miserable, frozen hostages may also have seen and heard too much by then, and they were shot by their guards on 23 December 1995.
The book relies on a great deal of circumstance and inference to support this version of events. For example, the where, when and how of the hostages' death come from just one informant. The authors are generally much stronger on accusations about 'somebody, somewhere' than they are on solid proof, though this is not unsurprising within Kashmir's chaotic world of 'traitors, proxies and informers', where everything is deniable. What gives the book a compelling authority, however, is that its conclusions are corroborated from within the Indian establishment itself – from the Jammu and Kashmir
Read online: www.literaryreview.co.uk police's own files, amplified by the suspicions of several senior officers central to the drama, who have contributed interviews to the book. What we have here is not anti-Indian chowk chatter; it is a meticulous, cold-case investigation based on a mountain of official paperwork, revitalised by a key layer of new testimony. Levy and Scott-Clark have dared to follow the pitiless logic of a very dirty war, and have shown where it can lead.
As an investigation The Meadow is detailed and focused; as a book, though, it is a tad confused about itself, repeatedly mixing banal and serious material. Is it hard reportage to be read as history, or an extended Sunday supplement piece about the impact of terrorism on its otherwise unremarkable victims? It even boasts, as announced on its cover, to have traced the beginnings of 'modern terrorism' to events in the Meadow that summer. This is scarcely tenable, and the book spends little effort trying to justify the claim, apart from listing the subsequent crimes of Masood Azhar, the Pakistani Islamist radical whose freedom the hostage takers tried unsuccessfully to secure.
Furthermore, as if unaware of its own subtitle, the book thoroughly chronicles two previous (also unsuccessful) attempts by the parent group behind al Faran to spring Masood Azhar by kidnapping Westerners. The beheading of one of the backpackers in 1995 certainly marked a new low in 'religious' terrorism, but the cover seems to ignore the authors' central finding – namely that it was a maverick militia, nominally aligned with India, that actually killed the other four hostages. In fact The Meadow has very little to say about terrorism itself, and is much sharper about the moral corruption of nation-states involved both in fighting it as a matter of self-preservation and in promoting it to further national interests.
The Meadow is a gripping and often emotional read: the improvised notes secretly dropped by the hostages are heartbreaking, both in their desperate tone and in their ultimate futility. Few were read at the time by anyone able to understand them. Worse, no one ever came to rescue their unfortunate authors. To order this book for £13.59, see the Literary Review bookshop on page 9
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Copycats & Bamboozles hina in Ten Words
By Yu Hua (Translated by Allan H Barr) (Duckworth Overlook 225pp £16.99)
Yu Hua, an author new to me, has written a great deal, sells well in China, and has a sizeable international reputation. This is his first non-fiction work translated – and very nimbly, too, by Allan H Barr – into English. Straightaway, Yu says, 'when in this book I write of China's pain, I am registering my pain too, because China's pain is mine'. It astounds me that he has not already joined Nobel Peace Prize-winner Liu Xiaobo and a growing number of other outspoken intellectuals behind bars.
Readers new to China will find this a gripping introduction to the country, one which clashes on every page with the refrain that China is the new superpower before which all must bend the knee. The essays are based on ten words, such as 'People', 'Leader', 'Writing', 'Revolution', and 'Bamboozle'. Each one is aimed at some aspect of Chinese corruption and disillusion. There is a constant allegation that the horrors of the Cultural Revolution are mirrored in China today. If true, this is terrifying in a way that champions of China will hate. And it is a daring claim: in 1982 the Communist Party proclaimed that the Cultural Revolution was the 'greatest catastrophe' to afflict China since the founding of the new state in 1949, and even laid the blame at the feet of Mao Zedong.
I can imagine the narrowed eyes of the censor when, in 'People', he reads about the protests in Tiananmen Square from April to June 1989. Even today, merely to mention online this 'counterrevolutionary incident', as it is officially dismissed, can prompt a knock on the door. Yu's description is exactly as I remember the event:
Beijing in the spring of 1989 was anarchist heaven. The police suddenly disappeared from the streets, and students and locals took on police duties in their place. It was a Beijing we are unlikely to see again.
A common purpose and shared aspirations put a police-free city in perfect order … Beijing then was a city where, you could say, 'all men are brothers'. By October, when Yu returned to the capital, the previous passions had been 'replaced by a passion for getting rich'. The people – workers, scholars, peasants, soldiers and so on – had given way to 'netizens, stock traders, fund holders, celebrity fans, laid-off workers, migrant laborers'. And how quickly the regime manipulated education so that young people, Yu notes, recall Tiananmen only as 'a lot of people in the streets'.
His memories of Mao during the Cultural Revolution, in 'Leader', include not being able to say, 'the sun went down', because that would insult Mao, who had to be hailed as 'the bright red sun in our hearts'. Only 'it's getting dark' would do. There has been a new 'miracle', Yu says: it is economic, and just as under Mao there were consequences, today there is 'environmental degradation, moral collapse, the polarization of rich and poor, pervasive corruption … so intense is the competition and so unbearable the pressure that, for many Chinese, survival is like war itself.'
The chapter 'Revolution' includes Yu's memories of the steel-making frenzies intended to demonstrate that the makers were real revolutionaries, whether or not the steel was needed or indeed any good. Today,
that same type of development keeps rearing its head in our economic life. One sees signs of it in the frenzy to construct airports, harbors, highways … impractical, extravagant, and duplicate initiatives are common, and they are pursued as vigorously as a revolutionary campaign … Behind all the glorious statistics in China today, crises tend to lurk. My two favourite chapters, 'Copycat' and 'Bamboozle', underline the fact that anything in China can be knocked off. Any product, be it electronics, instant noodles, milk, medicines, cell phones or clothes, can be replicated, faked and labelled as real.
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