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  • Broward-Palm Beach New Times

    The Agent from Iran

    How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy.

    By Deirdra Funcheon

  • Westword

    Murder By Design

    In life and death, tattoo artist Kauri Tiyme made her mark.

    By Alan Prendergast

  • Village Voice

    My Brother the Slumlord

    Amy Neustein never could resist going public with her family dramas.

    By Elizabeth Dwoskin

  • Houston Press

    The Ghosts of Galveston

    A visit with the hurricane victims that a country forgot.

    By John Nova Lomax

Classical Gas

Bartók? de Falla? Led Zeppelin? Sweet.

By Steve Jansen

Published on May 07, 2008 at 4:02am

If you didn’t attend March’s Downtown Chamber Series concert . . . oh, man. That Crumb piece with the pitched wine glasses, intense violin and cello sections, and growling chants in French? Seriously, one of the best live-music events we’ve ever witnessed. The DCS folks have lined up another eyebrow-raising program when guitarist Brad Richter and cellist Victor Uzur perform music by Led Zeppelin, Béla Bartók, and Manuel de Falla. Not too shabby.
May 11-12, 7:30 p.m., 2008