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Ketchikan, Alaska - KTB's An Evening of Dance featuring the Ketchikan Theatre Ballet's Junior and Senior Company Dancers will take place on the Kayhi Stage on Thursday, Feb. 22 and Friday, Feb. 23, 7:30pm. Tickets are now on sale, call 225-9311 for more info or tickets by phone. Mainstay Gallery 2007- 2008 season Call to Artists. The Mainstay Gallery Committee invites artists and curators working in all media to submit exhibit proposals for the next gallery season. Proposals are due by 5pm, Friday, Feb. 23. A full Call to Artists including guidelines is available at the Arts Council office and online at www.ketchikanarts.org. If you would like assistance or input on your proposal, consultations are available. Call Lacey at 225-2211 or email at laceyg@ketchikanarts.org <mailto:laceyg@ketchikanarts.org> to arrange a time to discuss your proposal ideas and design.
Music, humor carry classic 'My Fair Lady'
My Fair Lady is the richest of conventional musicals. Its fairy-tale story and classic score make for a clever retelling of George Bernard Shaw's brilliant, wry Pygmalion.
Book writer Alan Jay Lerner's story tells of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, who is turned into an elegant lady by snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins. The plot is set off glowingly by Frederick Loewe's masterful score, filled with hit tunes Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, The Rain in Spain and I Could Have Danced All Night.
The musical isn't easy to mount, and the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre version is tops at delivering the show's raucous comedy, but director M. Seth Reines is less adept at the more serious business of turning Eliza into a proper lady. Part of the problem is the casting, which is best in the broader comedy roles than in the leads.
A cultural centerpiece
BOSTON - Art isn't just about painting and sculpture. Many artists, however, go so far in their struggle to represent something new and different that their work dips into the absurd, leaving perplexed viewers to wonder, ''Is this really art?'' .
Local couple adds fizz to home cooking
It's "a hobby gone wild," say Gary and Karen Hanebrink, owners of Homeplace and makers of Pop Jack's Handcrafted Fizzes, whose fledgling enterprise has made the leap from hobby to business.The couple makes and bottles root beer and other non-alcoholic drinks, such as green apple soda; lemon, orange and raspberry fizzes; vanilla creme; and even a creamy root beer drink called a brown cow, which Mrs. Hanebrink says tastes like a root beer float.Their root beer is made from a family recipe with a sassafras root base."It's a family recipe, but we had to adapt it to meet all the FDA requirements for what you have to do to sassafras to make it OK to use," Mrs. Hanebrink said. "Root beer can be made out of several types of roots or bark -- birch, cherry and sarsaparilla, which is more western, but regionally it is traditionally made from sassafras," Hanebrink said."Pop Jack is my grandpa, so we call it Pop Jack's homemade root beer, but actually our company is called Homeplace."The couple sell their root beer at Eastern Illinois University's Celebration, and at living history and Civil War re-enactments, longtime interests of Hanebrinks.They also do some retail sales to restaurants, as well as help out with some area fundraisers, such as Boy Scouts."The drinks have some carbonation in them," Mrs.
Event Brief of Q4 2006 RenaissanceRe Holdings Earnings Conference ...
. David Lilly, Kekst and Company, IR . Neill Currie, RenaissanceRe, CEO . Kevin O'Donnell, RenaissanceRe Ltd., President . Bill Ashley, Glencoe Group Holdings Ltd., President, CEO . Fred Donner, RenaissanceRe, CFO, EVP . Tom Cholnoky, Goldman Sachs, Analyst . Alain Karaoglan, Deutsche Bank, Analyst . Brian Meredith, UBS, Analyst . Vinay Misquith, Credit Suisse, Analyst . Jay Cohen, Merrill Lynch, Analyst . Bill Riker, RenaissanceRe, President . Gary Ransom, Fox-Pitt Kelton, Analyst . Terry Shu, JPMorgan, Analyst . Josh Shanker, Citigroup, Analyst OVERVIEW RNR reported full-year 2006 operating income of $796.1m or diluted EPS of $11.05. Co. reported 4Q06 operating income of $198.6m or diluted EPS of $2.74. FINANCIAL DATA A. Key Data From Call 1. 2006 operating income = $796.1m. 2. 4Q06 operating income = $198.6m.
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