Live review: Amity Dry in Tapestry – A Carole King Tribute Show

Amity Dry clearly has a loyal following in Adelaide if the audience at her final performance of Tapestry at the Promethean is anything to go by. There was a real warmth in the applause of this largely older crowd, who hummed along to many of the great songs from the ’60s to the ’80s.

Dry is an understated and unpretentious performer. She just gets up and sings, along with her three-piece band and back-up vocalist Charmaine Jones. The show opens with a somewhat underpowered rendition of “I Feel The Earth Move” and doesn’t really pick up pace until mid-way through with a powerful interpretation of “So Far Away”.

Other highlights included “Smackwater Jack” and the James Taylor classic “You’ve Got a Friend”. Unfortunately, a number of the songs were undermined by a harsh mix and various microphone problems.

There are no accoutrements of cabaret here – no slinky evening frocks for the girls, no sharp black suits for the boys.; this is more “come as you are” cabaret.

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Tapestry-Tastic Exhibition at An Lanntair

TAPESTRY has never gone away, but the new An Lanntair exhibition – Suas leis an Oir-Ghreus! (Long Live Tapestry!) – is still pitched as something of a revival.
And Suas leis an Oir-Ghreus was in fact first shown as 'Vive le Tapisserie!' at the French Institute in Edinburgh last year – proving in its own way that tapestry is something of an international language.

The exhibition comprises of four miniatures, each created by 17 of Scotland's leading tapestry artists.

Archie Brenna, Sara Brennan, Amanda Gizzi, Linda Green, Alice Hannigan, Maureen Hodge, Stephen Hunter, Fiona Hutchison, William Jefferies, Ellen Lenvik, Brigitta MacDonald, Jo McDonald, Susan Mowatt, Colin Parker, Paul R Penrice, Anna Ray and Joanne Soroka are all members of the newly formed group STAR (Scottish Tapestry Artists Re-Grouped); and graduates of the tapestry department of Edinburgh College of Art.

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The Wish Maker Unfolds A Cultural Tapestry Of Contemporary Pakistan

About a month ago on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart began a segment about Pakistan by describing it as a “distant and mysterious land of spice and anger.” After momentarily feigning interest in the country's history and culture, he admitted, “Actually, we really just care about the nuclear arsenal.”

That wry jab at single-minded reporters might amuse Ali Sethi, who's written an earnest and deeply considered debut novel about Pakistan without pandering to the interests and clichés that dominate our nightly news. The Wish Maker is a family saga that gracefully unfolds a cultural tapestry of contemporary Pakistan.

Zaki Shirazi is the intelligent, observant son of two affluent matriarchs, his grandmother Daadi and his mother Zakia. His father died while flying a military plane when Zaki was “minus two months old.”

The Wish Maker begins with Zaki returning from an Ivy League education in the States to find his home, Lahore, Pakistan, changed. “There was an added estrangement from the known,” Zaki notes.

“The drive home was too short, the bridge too small, the trees not high enough on the canal ... the bed in my room was just a bed.” Sethi's clearly writing from recent experience — he, too, is an affluent Ivy League-educated 24-year-old of Lahore, Pakistan. Sethi's prose, however, is written with the disciplined distance and evenhanded delivery expected from someone twice his age.

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The Rich Tapestry Of Contemporary American Extremism

For many years he was the “monetary architect” of the “Liberty dollar,” much beloved by antigovernment “Patriots.” Nowadays, after running afoul of federal authorities over his alternative currency scheme, Bernard von NotHaus has embarked on a more ethereal venture: the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu, where he is the “high priest.”

Church members step into the “High Room” for one toke of marijuana, then retire to a meditation room “in serene bliss,” according to a church press release.

Von NotHaus, 64, says he once was friends with psychedelic drug proponent Timothy Leary. But he’s best known on the radical right for creating “American Liberty currency” certificates in denominations of $1, $5 and $10, starting in 1998. The certificates were backed by stocks of silver and gold stored in Idaho, von NotHaus said.

The currency has been popular with extreme-right tax protesters and members of the radical “sovereign citizens” movement, who maintain that the federal government has no right to tax or otherwise regulate them, as well as those who believe that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is run by a private body for personal profit.

In 2007, federal agents raided the company’s Evansville, Ind., headquarters, and seized two tons of copper coins featuring Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and 500 pounds of silver from a Liberty Dollars warehouse. The raids followed the U.S. Mint’s issuance of a public warning to consumers and businesses that using Liberty Dollars in lieu of U.S. currency was a crime.

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