“In times of economic crisis, you can take your whole family here for free. We’re finding there are a lot of young kids, grandparents, a real cross-section. Everyone is coming.”
Tag: 04.27.09
Aussie Ballerina Wins So You Think You Can Dance
Talia Fowler, an 18-year-old ballerina from Brisbane beat three other finalists on the Network Ten program to become Australia’s favourite dancer on Sunday night.
Edgar Allan Poe, Mad Genius And Inveterate Liar
“‘My whole existence has been the merest Romance,’ Poe wrote, the year before his death, ‘in the sense of the most utter unworldliness.’ This is Byronic bunk. Poe’s life was tragic, but he was about as unworldly as a bale of cotton. {…] ‘I have an inveterate habit of speaking the truth,’ Poe once wrote. That, too, was a lie. (That Poe lied compulsively about his own life has proved the undoing of many a biographer.)”