| Sylvie Guillem stretches herself for Push
Maybe that is why their programme is called Push. Created in 2005, it comes to the Coliseum for its fourth London run this spring. It’s a rare occurrence when contemporary dance performed by just two people sells out houses. But the seamless, mesmerising quality of Maliphant’s choreography, combined with the world’s most exciting ballerina, is an astonishing experience. Guillem becomes a lanky boy-girl, enclosed in sculpted light and punctuating her liquid moves with sudden sharpness, like exclamation marks. Or she is half woman, half dragonfly, arms windmilling in a strobo-scopic crescendo. This is dance of unique achievement, fusing bold radicalism with total accessibility and leaving you wanting more. Push, like Sacred Monsters, Guillem’s collaboration with the Kathak dancer Akram Khan, has toured widely here and abroad.
BLOTTER: Police reports published Jan. 17
It was the second car stolen in the city within the past week. Three youths were suspected of stealing a brand-new Chevrolet Impala at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 8, when a 26-year-old Tonawanda man left his car running and unlocked while he went in for a cup of coffee.CHARGED: Michael Moore II, 29, 379 Broad St. Apt. 1, was charged at 1:36 a.m. Wednesday with unlawful possession of marijuana, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, driving to the left of pavement markings and driving without a license. He was released on an appearance ticket.CHARGED: Joann P. DeCecco, 36, 4 Malinder Ave., was charged at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday with second-degree harassment and endangering the welfare of a child following a domestic incident. She was held for court.KenmoreCHARGED: Thomas E. Patterson, 21, 669 Englewood Ave., Buffalo, was charged with driving while intoxicated, unauthorized use of a vehicle, criminal possession of stolen property over $3,000, possession of burglary tools, possession of a hypodermic instrument, reckless driving, failure to use headlights, speeding, failure to yield right of way to an emergency vehicle, running a red light, operating a vehicle without a license, refusal to take a breath test and third-degree fleeing police in a motor vehicle at 4:04 a.m.
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A day after attending Feb. 7 funeral services in Germany for victims of a fire possibly set by racists, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German and Turkish students.
He called upon Germany to establish schools that teach in Turkish. Responding en masse, conservative critics warned of Turkish ghettoes and advocated German language instruction as a prime tool for integrating 2.7 million resident Turks.
But immigrant life is precarious and ghettos already exist, defenders pointed out. Besides, schools teaching in French and English are commonplace. So its less a question of language or culture than rejection of the lower classes, Thomas Steinfeld suggested, writing in Sddeutsche Zeitung.
Sri Lanka: Civil war intensifies
The Red Cross reported Feb.
Luxury afloat
The Cruise Lines International Association estimates that 12.6 million cruised worldwide in 2007 on the 24 cruise lines CLIA represents, a 4.6 percent increase over 2006. CLIA believes demand will hold, with a projected 12.8 million passengers for 2008 despite the weakening economy. A recent CLIA survey of 500 travel agents found 90 percent expect 2008 cruise sales to be as good or better than 2007.But consumers with flexible vacation plans may be in for some deals. "The more uncertainty there is in the marketplace, the more deals there will be later in the year," said Heidi Allison Shane, spokeswoman for CruiseCompete.com. "When the cruise lines go out with high prices and they don't sell out, the bigger the discounts later on." The softest markets, she predicted, will be in mega-ships sailing to the Caribbean and Bermuda.Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of CruiseCritic.com, also expects "more competitive prices for sure, because the economy is shaky, but where you'll find the real deals are on the older ships in cruise line fleets, not the newer and bigger models.
Waterboarding Is Legal, White House Says
On Jan. 21, 2009, there's almost certainly going to be a new president who understands that waterboarding is not only wrong but a very serious crime," said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch. However, Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey, challenged by senators to rule on the legality of waterboarding, declined last month to say it was illegal, even though he said he would consider it torture if he were subjected to it. Congress has passed two laws — the Detainee Treatment Act in 2005 and the Military Commissions Act in 2006 — that ban the use of harsh interrogation methods and require all U.S. agencies to comply with the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions in their treatment of detainees. In addition, the Pentagon published a new Army field manual in 2006 that limits interrogation techniques and bans harsh methods, including waterboarding, hoods and mock executions.
Fire destroys house on Pebble Hills Drive
A Wednesday night fire destroyed a new home under construction near the Pebble Lake Golf Course in Fergus Falls. In 15-below weather, the Fergus Falls Fire Department worked to extinguish the blaze at 3820 Pebble Hills Drive, where Mike and Annie Alt are building a new home. Firefighters were called to the scene at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. By the time the department arrived, the house was a loss, said Fergus Falls Fire Chief Mark Hovland. Firefighters worked to put out the blaze and protect the house next door, 40 to 50 feet away. Windows in that house cracked from the heat. “If it hadn't had cement siding, we would have had another house lost," Hovland. Frigid temperatures — winds at 5 mph and a -24 below wind chill — made it challenging for firemen to do their jobs, Hovland said.
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