Get Thee to Thine Temple, Quick
Just when you think it can;t get any stranger…
By Wells Dunbar, 9:17AM, Mon. Jan. 22, 2007
Phantom Wal-Mart calls, deep freezes shutting the city down for days – just when you think things can't get any stranger, something like this appears in your inbox:
"Media Advisory: Ancient temple dance to highlight community meetings announcement at City Hall
…To highlight the City's diverse arts community, the news conference will feature a special performance by Auradha Naimpally from Tanjore Performing Arts. Naimpally will perform an ancient and colorful temple dance of South India called bhrata natyam."
Hopefully this will flush out some of the abundant bad juju that's out there. Also, it's the kickoff to creating the city's community cultural plan, so that's an extra bonus. Anything creating public art that isn't a bunch of ugly-ass giant guitars is fine by us.
Hurry, performance is at City Hall at 10am this morning.
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