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1 Jazz singer
Simone
5 Colorado ski
resort
10 Apple computer
with a Magic
Keyboard
14 Ambulance-
calling situation:
Abbr.
15 Take off
16 Fizzy drink
17 Cold dish topped
with hard-boiled
egg
19 Grasp
20 Sent to the
canvas
21 Japanese beef
city
22 Wisdom tooth,
e.g.
23 Having many
curves
25 Longtime Susan
Lucci soap role
28 Bully’s warning
words
30 A cat may climb
one
31 Beginning
32 Skater’s surface
33 Tiny amount
37 Place for pillow
talk
38 It clicks on the
dance floor
41 Crown installer’s
org.
42 Picked out of a
lineup, briefly
44 Fizzy drink
45 “Here’s the
deal ... ”
47 Metal in steel
49 Hire, as a lawyer
50 Appear
intermittently
54 Nocturnal calls
56 Wonderland
visitor
57 Simplify
59 Tiny insect egg
60 Bread for a gyro
61 It may be a
boundary
between
neighboring
countries ... or
what each set of
circles depicts?
64 Nights before
65 Confess
66 Radar screen
spot
67 Take a break
68 Medicinal
amounts
69 Flies on a fast
plane
DOWN
1 Mandolin parts
2 Bit of gratitude
from an award
recipient
3 Driver’s invitation
4 [I want a treat!]
5 As well
6 Naval builder
7 Not as tanned
8 Juan Perón’s wife
9 Homer Simpson’s
friend Flanders
10 “The pressure
was too much for
me”
11 Greenbacks
12 Hunter
Quatermain of
“The League of
Extraordinary
Gentlemen”
13 Close-knit group
18 Like greenhouses
22 West of old films
24 Brewery container
26 Rash symptom
27 New Orleans
cuisine
29 Attach with a click
31 Back-tied sash
32 Co. for Web users
34 Underlying reason
35 Police artist’s
composite pic
maker
36 Blackball
39 Duck’s habitat
40 “Your choice”
43 Like many metal
toys
46 __ Tomé
48 Singer Carly __
Jepsen
49 Rock band’s
helper
50 Zany adventure
51 Martini fruit
52 Tiny parasites
53 Causes of illness
55 Fitbit units
58 Film backdrops
61 No longer edible
62 Prefix with meter
63 Prez whose
library is in
Austin
By C.C. Burnikel
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
02/06/18
02/06/18
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
RELEASE DATE– Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
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Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com
Imagine this: It’s Wednesday,
Nov. 9th. Trump has just won the
2016 presidential election, and the
results are not what you expected.
So, like you’ve been planning for
the past few weeks — regardless of
the election’s outcome — you buy a
ticket and get on a cross-country
bound Amtrak to gain perspective.
You leave your phone at home.
The news you receive during
these weeks of travel comes only
from the individuals you interact
with on trains, occurring mostly
during meal times in dining cars.
As a single rider, you are, for each
meal, randomly placed at the next
available spot at the next available
table. You don’t know anyone else
aboard the train.
Conversations
ensue
and
relationships begin, with stories
of lifetime hardships and beauty
and reasons for traveling at the
center of dialogue over vegetable
medley and black coffee. You
internalize these conversations
— you study them, and you try to
understand each person’s views
and experiences and truths. And
then, you write songs about them.
For
Gabriel
Kahane,
this
experience was reality. For two
weeks, Kahane set out to see the
U.S. in one of its most raw and
historically rich forms and to
speak with individuals he met
along the way who both agreed
and disagreed with his political
beliefs — without (most of the time,
anyway) explicitly mentioning his
stance. He took these strangers’
words and turned them into
poetry, turned them into a kind of
literature not often seen and not
often braved: performance.
In his piece, “8980 Book of
Travelers,”
Kahane
recounts
his cross-country journey — all
8,980 miles of it — through song,
which he performed at the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre last Friday.
His
singer-songwriter
roots
show through in this 65 minute
performance, but the show is
not simply a concert. Kahane
assumes the role of a storyteller,
describing the stories of those he
met from first person perspective.
As he sings, three large screens
display moving video footage of
America. The clips create an effect
that makes it seem as though
the audience is looking out the
window of a moving train.
While relatively short, “Book of
Travelers” evokes a wide range of
emotions. Kahane is funny, with
a dry sense of humor that speaks
to his quiet brilliance. Following
the opening song — almost an
overture, if you will — the show
began with Kahane breaking the
fourth wall, commenting on the
current “summer weather” we’re
having here in Ann Arbor. The
audience was quick to respond
with ringing laughter, establishing
a presence and energy that
significantly added to the overall
experience. He then segued into
his first song, a piece that narrated
the experience he had with a
decently elderly widow who was
taking a stab at online dating on
match.com. His lyrics, quick and
witty, painted his conversation
with this woman completely, while
still leaving much to audience
interpretation and imagination.
The piece then progresses
into heavier, more intense songs
that seamlessly and expertly
shifted the mood from light to
serious, depicting instances that
included aspects of life and death,
hope and cynicism and even
Kahane’s
personal
experience
with
religious
discrimination
(and how it was overcome). About
two thirds of the way through the
piece, as a sort of climax, Kahane
stands up from his home base at
the piano, and as a break from his
overarching acoustic atmosphere,
begins incorporating electronic
music. With a minimalistic drum
beat in the background, he loops
his voice and records over himself,
harmonizing a major triad. The
recording repeats as he sings
over it, the sound resembling a
prayer. He stands in the center
of the stage and chants: “I am in
love with America. I am betrayed
by America. I am dismayed by
America.” He uses a filter to distort
his voice, making this section of
the piece particularly distinct
from the rest, as if to make these
three sentences the overarching
theme of the entire performance.
It is cathartic.
What the piece never does,
however, is blatantly mention
anything political. It is not meant
to divide, or preach or convince.
It is meant to spread empathy and
to subtly implore the importance
of understanding people. It is
meant to show that one must try
to separate the person from their
ideology.
The show is about people.
It is about human nature and
human experience and human
connection. It is easy to forget, in
times of stark divide and intense
political climate, that what people
want most is to be understood
and received. But this show helps
us remember. Perhaps if we all
took
a
phoneless,
two-week,
cross-country
train
journey
through America, we would be
more inclined to take the time
to understand those who, on the
surface, may seem different from
us. But, if we are unable to take
that trip right now, watching
this show is a good step in that
direction.
‘8980 Book of Travelers’:
A journey to unite nation
ALLIE TAYLOR
Daily Arts Writer
COURTESY OF GABRIAL KAHANE
Berlin in the late 1920s was
a dynamic, fast-paced city with
a remarkably seedy underbelly.
As the capital of the Weimar
Republic (the German state as
it existed between the end of
World War I and Hitler’s rise),
its diverse population channeled
the trauma from World War I
into a particularly
intense
brand
of
hedonism
and
criminality.
“Babylon Berlin,”
the hit German
series
available
to
American
audiences
through
Netflix,
explores the interplay between
the city’s various factions in a
frank, unrestrained and thrilling
manner.
Released originally in Oct. 2017,
“Babylon Berlin” took Germany
by storm, drawing numbers of
viewers only surpassed by “Game
of Thrones” and supposedly
costing more than any German
TV series ever made. The show
follows Gereon Rath (Volker
Bruch, “Generation War”), a
police inspector from Cologne.
Traumatized by his experiences
in the war, he is assigned to
investigate a complicated web of
threats and blackmail involving
a pornographic film. Charlotte
Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries, “Und
morgen Mittag bin ich tot”),
a poor police typist who also
spends her nights working at a
gritty club, crosses paths with
Rath and eventually becomes his
assistant as he works through the
capital.
While
the
plot
mainly
focuses on Rath and Ritter, it
encompasses a sprawling variety
of topics ranging from a Soviet
smuggling operation to conflicts
within the Berlin
mafia.
However,
what seems to rise
above all of the
plotlines
is
the
city of Berlin itself.
Each
individual
story dives into
a different aspect of the city’s
collective psyche in the postwar
era, depicting the different ways
in which people tried to escape
the trauma from the war. Rath
indulges in drugs, while many
retreat into extremely hedonistic
establishments such as Moka Efti,
the nightclub where Ritter works.
The sets and costumes that depict
scenes of life in 1920s Berlin are
painstakingly detailed and imbue
a sense of vibrancy, going beyond
simply being pleasant to look at.
The environment in the city is
reminiscent of 1970s New York,
as shown in the HBO series “The
Deuce,” with increased social
freedom but a layer of moral and
physical degradation.
Despite the dizzying array
of plotlines and characters, the
show moves along at a quick pace,
but still leaves enough room to
take it all in and feel the energy
and chaos of Weimar Berlin. Rath
and Ritter, the two main subjects
of the show, naturally stand out
from the pack. Bruch is capable
of conveying a wide range of
emotion and internal turmoil
with little dialogue, and Fries
convincingly portrays Ritter as a
young woman taking advantage
of her society’s increased social
freedoms to unshackle herself
from the wretched life in the
tenements that she is used to.
The main concern to be
expected with a show such as
“Babylon Berlin” is whether
it will drown under its own
ambition.
It
immediately
dives into several seemingly
disconnected plotlines. While
they
do
thoroughly
explore
different
facets
of
Weimar
Berlin, the question remains
as to whether the show can tie
them together cohesively and not
create the sense that it could have
benefited from a tighter narrative
structure.
Overall, the pilot paints an
intriguing and stylish portrait
of a city and period of time that
is rarely explored in popular
culture, and it is worth exploring
further to see how the seeds were
planted for a more infamous
period to come.
‘Berlin’ is stylish, complex
SAYAN GHOSH
Daily Arts Writer
I was studying with my friend
the other day and all of a sudden
got a craving for plantains (for
these purposes we will call them
platanos, which is Spanish for
plantains). I longed for the taste
of platanos, prepared in both
sweet or savory ways, so much
that my mouth began to salivate
at the very thought of having
any kind of platano dish in front
of me. I took out my phone and
tried to find places that sold any
type of platano in Ann Arbor,
and I learned that, despite
having many Latin and Spanish
food places, the closest place that
would appease my craving was
in Detroit — an hour away from
Ann Arbor. My heart dropped.
Now, you are probably just
thinking to yourself: “So what?
Just eat a banana, they are
practically
the
same.”
Even
though I could have satiated my
craving for something sweet or
savory with another food that
is similar, it isn’t the same. It is
taunting to have so many Latin
and Spanish themed food places
in Ann Arbor that only sell
burritos, tacos, rice or beans.
The food culture of Ann Arbor
is just one of the small ways
in which the current culture
misrepresents the Latin culture.
Food in Latin America is
an
art.
Our
entire
culture
surrounds
our
food.
While
that food does
contain
rice,
beans
and
goya
seasoned
meat, it means
so much more
than just these
ingredients
to
our community.
Growing
up,
every adult in my
family, male or
female, was an
incredible cook.
We are masters
of goya, platanos,
meat, rice, beans
and
so
much
more. We create
dishes made for
sharing around a large table. Our
food brings us together. After
long days of work and school,
my family always made sure to
sit around the dining room table
with our arroz y habichuelas to
unite once again in the presence
of
the
aromas
of
cilantro,
culantro, garlic and pepper.
Our food is so much more
than rice and beans and meat.
It is seasoning, it is all of these
ingredients
and
more
that
go
masterfully
together
in
a
stew-like
dish
called sancocho or
seafood and rice
in a dish called
paella. And it is
platanos.
Educating
ourselves
about
other
cultures
starts with food.
With the amount
of
people
in
Ann Arbor from
around the globe,
we need to make
sure that everyone
can find a taste of
home 20 minutes
from
their
doorstep,
rather
than an hour away
in Detroit. Food
is an art that is not only central
to the Latin culture, but to most
other cultures as well. My hope is
that one day when I am studying
with a friend, craving platanos, I
can order mangoo or maduros to
go as easily as I am able to order
feta bread.
“Babylon
Berlin”
Series Premiere
Netflix
NETFLIX
COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK
More plantains, please
IZZY HASSLUND
Daily Arts Writer
Our food is so
much more than
rice and beans
and meat. It is
seasoning, it
is all of these
ingredients and
more
TV REVIEW
COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW
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